Bible Verses About Weight Loss
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for weight loss, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,748 votes, led by Philippians 4:13. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Weight Loss
Philippians 4:13354 votes
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20250 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 Corinthians 10:13238 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.
Hebrews 12:11213 votes
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
1 Corinthians 10:31207 votes
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
3 John 1:2165 votes
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
Matthew 6:25161 votes
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Galatians 5:16156 votes
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Proverbs 3:5119 votes
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
1 Corinthians 9:27115 votes
But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Proverbs 16:3114 votes
Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established.
Romans 12:1-2111 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.
Romans 14:20104 votes
For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.
Romans 14:17100 votes
For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
Hebrews 12:197 votes
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Matthew 19:2688 votes
But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
John 6:3588 votes
And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
1 Corinthians 9:2480 votes
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
Romans 8:575 votes
For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Proverbs 25:2774 votes
It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
Psalms 139:1467 votes
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Matthew 4:459 votes
But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Galatians 5:22-2358 votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
1 Corinthians 6:1957 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?
Job 23:1250 votes
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
What does the Bible say about weight loss?
Readers most often cite Philippians 4:13 on the subject of weight loss. Across 3,748 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, 1 Corinthians 10:13, Hebrews 12:11. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.