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12 Bible verses about Health and the Body KJV

The New Testament calls the body a temple and treats it as something on loan rather than owned. These verses cover that, bodily exercise profiting a little, and the care scripture assumes people will take with what they've been given.

Also called Your Body Is a Temple · Physical Health · Fitness · Exercise

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1 Corinthians 6:19-20 · KJV

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? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

3 John 1:2 · KJV

Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

Proverbs 3:7-8 · KJV

Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

1 Corinthians 10:31 · KJV

Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

Romans 12:1 · KJV

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.

Proverbs 17:22 · KJV

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

1 Timothy 4:8 · KJV

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.

Psalm 139:14 · KJV

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

Exodus 23:25 · KJV

And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.

Proverbs 4:20-22 · KJV

My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

Jeremiah 33:6 · KJV

Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.

Isaiah 40:29 · KJV

He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.

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