Taking Care Of Your Body

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, — read the full passage →

for the bodily exercise is unto little profit, and the piety is to all things profitable, a promise having of the life that now is, and of that which is coming;

beloved, concerning all things I desire thee to prosper, and to be in health, even as thy soul doth prosper,

Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you? — read the full passage →

`And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you,

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

And he said unto his disciples, `Because of this, to you I say, Be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat; nor for the body, what ye may put on;

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service;

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

And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.

and all, whatever ye may do in word or in work, <FI>do<Fi> all things in the name of the Lord Jesus--giving thanks to the God and Father, through him.

and my God shall supply all your need, according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus;

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

for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord--the assembly,

Because of this I say to you, all whatever--praying--ye do ask, believe that ye receive, and it shall be to you.

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service; — read the full passage →

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,

no longer be drinking water, but a little wine be using, because of thy stomach and of thine often infirmities;

Put to death, then, your members that <FI>are<Fi> upon the earth--whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry--

have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you?

but--the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible thing of the meek and quiet spirit, which is, before God, of great price,

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

but I chastise my body, and bring <FI>it<Fi> into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others--I myself may become disapproved.

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

They cried, and Jehovah heard, And from all their distresses delivered them. — read the full passage →

`I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman; — read the full passage →

And Jehovah doth lead thee continually, And hath satisfied in drought thy soul, And thy bones He armeth, And thou hast been as a watered garden, And as an outlet of waters, whose waters lie not.

it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body; there is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body;

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness?

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, and in all freedom, as always, also now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death,

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

and ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

but ye shall receive power at the coming of the Holy Spirit upon you, and ye shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the end of the earth.'

for as in one body we have many members, and all the members have not the same office,

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

`And who of you, being anxious, is able to add to his age one cubit?

`Because of this I say to you, be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat, and what ye may drink, nor for your body, what ye may put on. Is not the life more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing?

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

`The lamp of the body is the eye, if, therefore, thine eye may be perfect, all thy body shall be enlightened, — read the full passage →

each not to your own look ye, but each also to the things of others.

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

For Thou--Thou hast possessed my reins, Thou dost cover me in my mother's belly. — read the full passage →

and He said to me, `Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me:

and He saith, `If thou dost really hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, and dost that which is right in His eyes, and hast hearkened to His commands, and kept all His statutes: none of the sickness which I laid on the Egyptians do I lay on thee, for I, Jehovah, am healing thee.

`And whenever the Son of Man may come in his glory, and all the holy messengers with him, then he shall sit upon a throne of his glory; — read the full passage →

And God blesseth them, and God saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping upon the earth.'

I confess Thee, because that <FI>with<Fi> wonders I have been distinguished. Wonderful <FI>are<Fi> Thy works, And my soul is knowing <FI>it<Fi> well.

religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation--unspotted to keep himself from the world.

`And mayest Thou not lead us to temptation, but deliver us from the evil, because Thine is the reign, and the power, and the glory--to the ages. Amen.

Be not wise in thine own eyes, Fear Jehovah, and turn aside from evil. — read the full passage →

And there came one of the seven messengers, who were having the seven vials, and he spake with me, saying to me, `Come, I will shew to thee the judgment of the great whore, who is sitting upon the many waters, — read the full passage →

`The lamp of the body is the eye, if, therefore, thine eye may be perfect, all thy body shall be enlightened,

A rejoicing heart doth good to the body, And a smitten spirit drieth the bone.

and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him--how doth the love of God remain in him? — read the full passage →

Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering,

`And the king answering, shall say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did <FI>it<Fi> to one of these my brethren--the least--to me ye did <FI>it<Fi> .

and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.

All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful to me, but I--I will not be under authority by any; — read the full passage →

and the second <FI>is<Fi> like <FI>it<Fi> , this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; --greater than these there is no other command.'

Whoso is lending <FI>to<Fi> Jehovah is favouring the poor, And his deed He repayeth to him.

Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;

is any infirm among you? let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil, in the name of the Lord,

from whom the whole body, being fitly joined together and united, through the supply of every joint, according to the working in the measure of each single part, the increase of the body doth make for the building up of itself in love.

and I have known such a man--whether in the body, whether out of the body, I have not known, God hath known, --

A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack, — read the full passage →

for not by will of man did ever prophecy come, but by the Holy Spirit borne on holy men of God spake.

of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,

teaching them to observe all, whatever I did command you,) and lo, I am with you all the days--till the full end of the age.'

Lo, I am increasing to it health and cure, And have healed them, and revealed to them The abundance of peace and truth.

For, even as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also <FI>is<Fi> the Christ,

As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as <FI>are<Fi> grave, as many as <FI>are<Fi> righteous, as many as <FI>are<Fi> pure, as many as <FI>are<Fi> lovely, as many as <FI>are<Fi> of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon;

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

(and if any one his own house <FI>how<Fi> to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)

and My people on whom My name is called be humbled, and pray, and seek My face, and turn back from their evil ways, then I--I hear from the heavens, and forgive their sin, and heal their land.

And Jehovah God taketh the man, and causeth him to rest in the garden of Eden, to serve it, and to keep it.

and the profane and old women's fables reject thou, and exercise thyself unto piety, — read the full passage →

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him <FI>in<Fi> all things, who is the head--the Christ; — read the full passage →

let no one seek his own--but each another's.

all things through him did happen, and without him happened not even one thing that hath happened.

A kind man is rewarding his own soul, And the fierce is troubling his own flesh.

And Ahithophel hath seen that his counsel was not done, and he saddleth the ass, and riseth and goeth unto his house, unto his city, and giveth charge unto his household, and strangleth himself, and dieth, and he is buried in the burying-place of his father.

And Jehovah saith unto Samuel, `Look not unto his appearance, and unto the height of his stature, for I have rejected him; for <FI>it is<Fi> not as man seeth--for man looketh at the eyes, and Jehovah looketh at the heart.'

that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same anxiety for one another,

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,

`Verily, verily, I say to you--He who is hearing my word, and is believing Him who sent me, hath life age-during, and to judgment he doth not come, but hath passed out of the death to the life.

And it came to pass in those days, there went forth a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world be enrolled-- — read the full passage →

Heal me, O Jehovah, and I am healed, Save me, and I am saved, for my praise <FI>art<Fi> Thou.

and it will come--the day of the Lord--as a thief in the night, in which the heavens with a rushing noise will pass away, and the elements with burning heat be dissolved, and earth and the works in it shall be burnt up.

Jesus who <FI>is<Fi> from Nazareth--how God did anoint him with the Holy Spirit and power; who went through, doing good, and healing all those oppressed by the devil, because God was with him;

And Jesus was going about all Galilee teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the good news of the reign, and healing every disease, and every malady among the people,

Who hath given credence to that which we heard? And the arm of Jehovah, On whom hath it been revealed? — read the full passage →

`No domestic is able to serve two lords, for either the one he will hate, and the other he will love; or one he will hold to, and of the other he will be heedless; ye are not able to serve God and mammon.'