Bible Verses About Taking Care of Yourself
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for taking care of yourself, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 114,706 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 Yourself
1 Corinthians 6:19-202,998 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?
3 John 1:22,352 votes
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
1 Timothy 5:82,335 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.
Revelation 1:12,255 votes
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
1 Corinthians 3:162,231 votes
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Romans 12:1-22,125 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 10:312,030 votes
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
1 Corinthians 3:171,994 votes
If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Philippians 4:131,993 votes
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
1 Peter 5:7-91,975 votes
Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
Psalms 139:131,795 votes
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
1 Peter 3:1-221,767 votes
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
James 1:271,726 votes
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Matthew 6:331,667 votes
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
1 Peter 5:71,645 votes
Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
Matthew 11:281,620 votes
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Matthew 22:37-401,484 votes
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
2 Corinthians 5:171,480 votes
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Ephesians 4:281,477 votes
Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Matthew 10:281,475 votes
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
1 John 2:151,474 votes
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Matthew 7:3-51,473 votes
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Philippians 3:13-141,471 votes
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
John 3:16-171,415 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.
Galatians 6:21,364 votes
Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
What does the Bible say about taking care of yourself?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 on the subject of taking care of yourself. Across 114,706 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 3 John 1:2, 1 Timothy 5:8, Revelation 1:1. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.