Body Image

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for I see not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing; — read the full passage →

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

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

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 sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” — read the full passage →

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

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

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

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 sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing; — read the full passage →

“‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.

“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’”

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you? — read the full passage →

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

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

Therefore I urge you, brothers, 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 →

You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you.

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

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

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

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

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because 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 don’t have the same function,

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.

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

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

So the king will desire your beauty, honor him, for he is your lord.

As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let’s also bear the image of the heavenly.

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

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

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

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

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

God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”

Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

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

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

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

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

For as the body is one, and has 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 with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to 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 assembly;

With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God.

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.

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

After six days, Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John his brother, and brought them up into a high mountain by themselves. — read the full passage →

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

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

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

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

God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, — read the full passage →

For man is not from woman, but woman from man; — read the full passage →

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.

Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

But God commends 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 you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

“Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;

By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

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

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

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?

“‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, neither shall you raise up an engraved image or a pillar, neither shall you place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am Yahweh your God.