Harming Your Body

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 →

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

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

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

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

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

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.

Yahweh my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.

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

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

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,

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.

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

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

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

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 →

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.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

He said to them, “Are you thus without understanding also? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him, — read the full passage →

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

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.

You call on the name of your god, and I will call on Yahweh’s name. The God who answers by fire, let him be God.” All the people answered, “It is well said.” — read the full passage →

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

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

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.

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 →

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

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

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

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.

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.

Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

“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.

Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in the multitude of counselors there is victory.

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

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.

Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

“You shall not murder.

I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don’t know, or whether out of the body, I don’t know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven.

If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.

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!

Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble. — read the full passage →

If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

When he had come out of the boat, immediately a man with an unclean spirit met him out of the tombs. — read the full passage →

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

Abstain from every form of evil.

Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

But he spoke of the temple of his body.

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

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 →

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. — read the full passage →

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

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.

Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the great locust, the grasshopper, and the caterpillar, my great army, which I sent among you.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

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

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. — read the full passage →

I know such a man (whether in the body, or outside of the body, I don’t know; God knows),

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

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

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

and he said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”

Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.

The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife.

And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.