What Does the Bible Say About Women Body?

1 Corinthians 7:4 ESV / 55 helpful votes

For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

1 Timothy 2:9-10 ESV / 51 helpful votes

Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works.

1 Peter 3:3 ESV / 41 helpful votes

Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—

1 Corinthians 6:18-20 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. 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.

Mark 5:25-34 ESV / 30 helpful votes

And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse. She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. For she said, “If I touch even his garments, I will be made well.” And immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. ...

Galatians 5:19-23 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Proverbs 31:30 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

1 Corinthians 11:15 ESV / 23 helpful votes

But if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her hair is given to her for a covering.

Psalm 127:3 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 19 helpful votes

But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

Proverbs 31:10 ESV / 19 helpful votes

An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.

Colossians 3:19 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

1 Corinthians 12:23-24 ESV / 18 helpful votes

And on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it,

Ephesians 5:28-30 ESV / 16 helpful votes

In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body.

John 4:13-14 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

Proverbs 31:25 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come.

Proverbs 5:1-7:27 ESV / 16 helpful votes

My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding, that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge. For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil, but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol; ...

Titus 2:3-4 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children,

1 Corinthians 7:3 ESV / 13 helpful votes

The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 13 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.”

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 13 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 6:20 ESV / 12 helpful votes

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

Matthew 19:4-5 ESV / 11 helpful votes

He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?

1 Timothy 5:1-2 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.

Ezekiel 2:5-10 ESV / 9 helpful votes

And whether they hear or refuse to hear (for they are a rebellious house) they will know that a prophet has been among them. And you, son of man, be not afraid of them, nor be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you and you sit on scorpions. Be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house. And you shall speak my words to them, whether they hear or refuse to hear, for they are a rebellious house. “But you, son of man, hear what I say to you. Be not rebellious like that rebellious house; open your mouth and eat what I give you.” And when I looked, behold, a hand was stretched out to me, and behold, a scroll of a book was in it. ...

Song of Solomon 4:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, that graze among the lilies.

Psalm 139:14 ESV / 9 helpful votes

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

Deuteronomy 22:22 ESV / 9 helpful votes

“If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.

Matthew 19:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes

He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female,

Genesis 30:21 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Afterward she bore a daughter and called her name Dinah.

Genesis 1:31 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

Genesis 3:21 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.

Ephesians 5:28-29 ESV / 5 helpful votes

In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,

1 Corinthians 12:27 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, ...

Genesis 1:27-28 ESV / 5 helpful votes

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Deuteronomy 22:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then the father of the young woman and her mother shall take and bring out the evidence of her virginity to the elders of the city in the gate.

38 Bible Verses about Women Body

1 Corinthians 7:4 ESV / 55 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 2:9-10 ESV / 51 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 3:3 ESV / 41 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:18-20 ESV / 34 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 5:25-34 ESV / 30 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 5:19-23 ESV / 28 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 31:30 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 11:15 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 127:3 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 31:10 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 3:19 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 12:23-24 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:28-30 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 4:13-14 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 31:25 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 5:1-7:27 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Titus 2:3-4 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 7:3 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:20 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 19:4-5 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 5:1-2 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 2:5-10 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Song of Solomon 4:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 139:14 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 22:22 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 19:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 30:21 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:31 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 3:21 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:28-29 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 12:27 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:27-28 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 22:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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