What Does the Bible Say About The Human Body?

Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 134 helpful votes

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 117 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

Psalm 139:14 ESV / 85 helpful votes

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 59 helpful votes

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Philippians 3:21 ESV / 54 helpful votes

Who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 45 helpful votes

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

1 Corinthians 15:35-49 ESV / 43 helpful votes

But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body. For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. ...

James 2:26 ESV / 40 helpful votes

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.

Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 31 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. ...

1 Corinthians 15:51-52 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 22 helpful votes

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

1 Thessalonians 5:23 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Acts 7:19 ESV / 16 helpful votes

He dealt shrewdly with our race and forced our fathers to expose their infants, so that they would not be kept alive.

Luke 1:31 ESV / 15 helpful votes

And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus.

Exodus 20:1-26 ESV / 15 helpful votes

And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, ...

Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 14 helpful votes

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Psalm 51:5 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

1 Timothy 4:8 ESV / 11 helpful votes

For while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.

Psalm 73:26 ESV / 11 helpful votes

My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Romans 12:4 ESV / 10 helpful votes

For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function,

John 3:16-17 ESV / 10 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Genesis 25:22 ESV / 9 helpful votes

The children struggled together within her, and she said, “If it is thus, why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the Lord.

1 Corinthians 15:44 ESV / 8 helpful votes

It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

Matthew 10:30 ESV / 8 helpful votes

But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.

Matthew 10:28 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Jeremiah 17:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for you are my praise.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

John 3:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

Matthew 6:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light,

Hosea 13:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

Leviticus 19:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes

You shall not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard.

Exodus 3:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Then the Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings,

Romans 12:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

1 Corinthians 6:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

1 Corinthians 6:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?

1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?

1 Corinthians 3:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.

Romans 12:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Proverbs 22:17-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Incline your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my knowledge, for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.

Proverbs 20:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the Lord has made them both.

Proverbs 6:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

1 Corinthians 13:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

1 Corinthians 6:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.”

Psalm 139:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb.

Psalm 56:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book?

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

1 Corinthians 12:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.

1 Corinthians 6:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!

Romans 12:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

59 Bible Verses about The Human Body

Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 134 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 117 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 139:14 ESV / 85 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 59 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 3:21 ESV / 54 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 45 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 15:35-49 ESV / 43 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 2:26 ESV / 40 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 31 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 15:51-52 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Thessalonians 5:23 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 7:19 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 1:31 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 20:1-26 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 51:5 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 4:8 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 73:26 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 12:4 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16-17 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 25:22 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 15:44 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 10:30 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 10:28 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 17:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 6:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hosea 13:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 19:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 3:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 12:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 3:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 12:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 12:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 22:17-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 20:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 6:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 13:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 139:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 56:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 12:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 12:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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