Body Image

But Jehovah said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for Jehovah seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but Jehovah looketh on the heart.

I will give thanks unto thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Wonderful are thy works; And that my soul knoweth right well.

Whoseadorninglet it not be the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on apparel; — read the full passage →

Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own; — read the full passage →

Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain; Buta woman that feareth Jehovah, she shall be praised.

And 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 cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. — read the full passage →

for bodily exercise is profitable for a little; but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come.

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

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

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

And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

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

And 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 cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

In like manner, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefastness and sobriety; not with braided hair, and gold or pearls or costly raiment; — read the full passage →

Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am Jehovah.

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

every one that is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yea, whom I have made.

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? — read the full passage →

Strength and dignity are her clothing; And she laugheth at the time to come.

Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

Thou art all fair, my love; And there is no spot in thee.

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.

And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

Now ye are the body of Christ, and severally members thereof.

Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.

fear thou not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God; I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working whereby he is able even to subject all things unto himself.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

For a man indeed ought not to have his head veiled, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office:

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

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

who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation;

Jehovah is my shepherd; I shall not want. — read the full passage →

So will the king desire thy beauty; For he is thy lord; and reverence thou him.

And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth.

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

Take heed that ye do not your righteousness before men, to be seen of them: else ye have no reward with your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but so to think as to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to each man a measure of faith.

And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For thou didst form my inward parts: Thou didst cover me in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

For thou didst form my inward parts: Thou didst cover me in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing shall I be put to shame, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

Know ye that Jehovah, he is God: It is he that hath made us, and we are his; We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:

and have put on the new man, that is being renewed unto knowledge after the image of him that created him:

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and severally members one of another.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John; — read the full passage →

for in him were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and unto him;

and put on the new man, that after God hath been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

Now the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged.

For thou didst form my inward parts: Thou didst cover me in my mother’s womb.

For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin;

Keep thy heart with all diligence; For out of it are the issues of life.

And having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

who being the effulgence of his glory, and the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had made purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.

for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ:

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church;

Therewith bless we the Lord and Father; and therewith curse we men, who are made after the likeness of God:

Seek ye Jehovah and his strength; Seek his face evermore.

which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn upon them.

because we are members of his body.

The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart: — read the full passage →

Ye therefore shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Let us therefore draw near with boldness unto the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace to help us in time of need.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.

God, having of old time spoken unto the fathers in the prophets by divers portions and in divers manners, — read the full passage →

For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man: — read the full passage →

But now, O Jehovah, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take away the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid.

But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.

And be not afraid of them that kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee, and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee; I have appointed thee a prophet unto the nations.

thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them; for I Jehovah thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me,

For no word from God shall be void of power.

in whom each several building, fitly framed together, groweth into a holy temple in the Lord;

in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ. — read the full passage →

And not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for our adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye:

Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence?

Ye shall make you no idols, neither shall ye rear you up a graven image, or a pillar, neither shall ye place any figured stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am Jehovah your God.