Honoring Your Body

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 →

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

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart.

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;

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

But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

Who hath believed our message? and to whom hath the arm of Jehovah been revealed? — read the full passage →

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

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

In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another;

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.

Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

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 any.

Honor Jehovah with thy substance, And with the first-fruits of all thine increase:

Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting: but rather giving of thanks.

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.

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 any. — read the full passage →

But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband — read the full passage →

Honor thy father and thy mother; and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

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.

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

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;

Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell withyour wivesaccording to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise), — read the full passage →

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

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.

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise),

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, — read the full passage →

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

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 →

The lamp of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

All things therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them: for this is the law and the prophets.

Therefore Jehovah, the God of Israel, saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now Jehovah saith, Be it far from me; for them that honor me I will honor, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

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

The lamp of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. — read the full passage →

Now faith is assurance ofthingshoped for, a conviction of things not seen.

from whom all the body fitly framed and knit together through that which every joint supplieth, according to the working in due measure of each several part, maketh the increase of the body unto the building up of itself in love.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the powers that be are ordained of God. — read the full passage →

Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah.

And every created thing which is in the heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and on the sea, and all things that are in them, heard I saying, Unto him that sitteth on the throne, and unto the Lamb, be the blessing, and the honor, and the glory, and the dominion, for ever and ever.

Worthy art thou, our Lord and our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power: for thou didst create all things, and because of thy will they were, and were created.

If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, meet for the master’s use, prepared unto every good work.

Be no longer a drinker of water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.

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;

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

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.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the powers that be are ordained of God.

If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will the Father honor.

that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honoreth not the Son honoreth not the Father that sent him.

And Jesus said, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And parting his garments among them, they cast lots.

And the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw nigh unto me, and with their mouth and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which hath been taught them;

Ye were bought with a price; become not bondservants of men.

But he spake of the temple of his 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.

Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.

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 →

that ye should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandment of the Lord and Saviour through your apostles:

knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers; — read the full passage →

doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;

But thanks be unto God, who always leadeth us in triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest through us the savor of his knowledge in every place.

Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. — read the full passage →

But him that is weak in faith receive ye, yet not for decision of scruples. — read the full passage →

Therefore he that resisteth the power, withstandeth the ordinance of God: and they that withstand shall receive to themselves judgment.

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 →

But let your speech be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: and whatsoever is more than these is of the evil one.

and Jehovah will guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in dry places, and make strong thy bones; and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.

And if it seem evil unto you to serve Jehovah, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Jehovah.

Honor thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee; that thy days may be long, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

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.

Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit hath made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he purchased with his own blood.

Ye are the children of Jehovah your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall privily bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brethren: — read the full passage →

but refuse profane and old wives’ fables. And exercise thyself unto godliness: — read the full passage →

But let each man prove his own work, and then shall he have his glorying in regard of himself alone, and not of his neighbor.

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:

Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men,

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.

But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and declare unto my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins. — read the full passage →

One shall say, I am Jehovah’s; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto Jehovah, and surname himself by the name of Israel.

And they sing a new song, saying, Worthy art thou to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and didst purchase unto God with thy blood men of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,

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

nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption.

Faithful is the saying: For if we died with him, we shall also live with him: — read the full passage →

Let as many as are servants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine be not blasphemed.

And whatsoever ye do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. — read the full passage →

In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

If then ye have to judge things pertaining to this life, do ye set them to judge who are of no account in the church?