Bible Verses About Harming Your Body
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for harming your body, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 996 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 3:16-17. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Harming Your Body
1 Corinthians 3:16-17211 votes
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Leviticus 19:28199 votes
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20170 votes
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
Matthew 26:4173 votes
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
1 Corinthians 10:1349 votes
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Ephesians 5:1841 votes
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
1 Corinthians 6:1237 votes
All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
Psalms 30:235 votes
O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
Mark 7:18-1926 votes
And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
Romans 6:2325 votes
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
2 Corinthians 5:1723 votes
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Galatians 5:1819 votes
But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
Proverbs 3:5-618 votes
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Ecclesiastes 1:1-1818 votes
The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
Joel 2:2516 votes
And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
Isaiah 1:1-3113 votes
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
Acts 10:9-1512 votes
On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:
John 3:1611 votes
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
What does the Bible say about harming your body?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 on the subject of harming your body. Across 996 votes, 18 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Leviticus 19:28, 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, Matthew 26:41. This page lists all 18 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.