Bible Verses About Taking Care of Your Body
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for taking care of your body, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 6,286 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 Taking Care of Your Body
1 Corinthians 6:19-20844 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 4:8253 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.
3 John 1:2250 votes
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
1 Corinthians 10:31194 votes
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
Luke 21:34190 votes
And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
Romans 12:2183 votes
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
1 Corinthians 3:16-17170 votes
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Luke 12:22140 votes
And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.
Romans 12:1126 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.
Philippians 4:6-7122 votes
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
Genesis 1:27108 votes
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Colossians 3:17108 votes
And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
Philippians 4:19101 votes
But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:698 votes
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
Mark 11:2488 votes
Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
Ephesians 5:2981 votes
For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
1 Timothy 5:880 votes
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Romans 12:1-279 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.
1 Corinthians 6:1974 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 5:2374 votes
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.
Colossians 3:572 votes
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
1 Corinthians 3:1670 votes
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
1 Peter 3:462 votes
But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Psalms 34:17-2060 votes
The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
1 Corinthians 6:1860 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
What does the Bible say about taking care of your body?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 on the subject of taking care of your body. Across 6,286 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Timothy 4:8, 3 John 1:2, 1 Corinthians 10:31. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.