Bible Verses About Your Body
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for your body, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 9,341 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 Your Body
1 Corinthians 6:19-201,675 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 3:16-171,065 votes
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Leviticus 19:28677 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 10:31513 votes
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
Romans 12:1-2480 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 9:27395 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.
1 Corinthians 6:19314 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 6:22238 votes
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
1 John 2:15-17231 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.
Jeremiah 1:5179 votes
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Matthew 10:28146 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.
Romans 12:1142 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 Timothy 2:9132 votes
In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
1 Corinthians 15:44115 votes
It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
Psalms 100:3109 votes
Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Philippians 1:20104 votes
According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
1 Peter 2:24103 votes
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
Psalms 139:13-18100 votes
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
Matthew 6:1-3490 votes
Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
Matthew 5:29-3087 votes
And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Genesis 1:2781 votes
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Psalms 139:1480 votes
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
1 Corinthians 12:2780 votes
Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
1 Corinthians 13:373 votes
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
1 Timothy 4:873 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.
What does the Bible say about your body?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 on the subject of your body. Across 9,341 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 3:16-17, Leviticus 19:28, 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.