Bible Verses About Health and Fitness
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for health and fitness, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 516 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 6:19-20. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Health and Fitness
1 Corinthians 6:19-20149 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?
1 Timothy 4:864 votes
For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
Genesis 1:2941 votes
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
3 John 1:240 votes
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
Philippians 4:1334 votes
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Ezekiel 4:927 votes
Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.
Romans 12:124 votes
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Psalms 18:3421 votes
He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
Galatians 5:22-2321 votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Ephesians 5:1818 votes
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
Daniel 1:15-1615 votes
And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king’s meat.
Proverbs 14:3014 votes
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
Daniel 1:813 votes
But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
2 Timothy 1:713 votes
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Exodus 23:2511 votes
And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
James 1:16-1711 votes
Do not err, my beloved brethren.
What does the Bible say about health and fitness?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 on the subject of health and fitness. Across 516 votes, 16 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Timothy 4:8, Genesis 1:29, 3 John 1:2. This page lists all 16 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.