Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
worship | Spirit | life
For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don’t have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.
Romans 12:4-5
Jesus | community | dependence
For you formed my inmost being.
You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I will give thanks to you,
for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Your works are wonderful.
My soul knows that very well.
Psalm 139:13-14
creation | miracles | soul
My flesh and my heart fails,
but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Psalm 73:26
strength | life | dependence
Therefore remove sorrow from your heart,
and put away evil from your flesh;
for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
Ecclesiastes 11:10
sadness | worrying | heart
A cheerful heart makes good medicine,
but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
Proverbs 17:22
healing | heart | sickness
Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Matthew 26:41
prayer | temptation | desires
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.
1 Timothy 4:8
health | obedience | life
Don’t be wise in your own eyes.
Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.
It will be health to your body,
and nourishment to your bones.
Proverbs 3:7-8
awe | blessing | evil
Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward person is decaying, yet our inward person is renewed day by day.
2 Corinthians 4:16
beauty | encouragement | receiving
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.
Colossians 3:15
Jesus | peace | gratitude
But I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.
1 Corinthians 9:27
self-control | judgment
Pleasant words are a honeycomb,
sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Proverbs 16:24
gentleness | speaking | soul
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?
Matthew 6:25
food | life | worrying
There is one body and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling.
Ephesians 4:4
Spirit | hope | calling
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.
1 Corinthians 12:12
community | church | Jesus
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.
Matthew 10:28
fear | soul | hell
For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.
James 3:2
blameless | speaking
If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
Matthew 5:29
sin | desire | shell
Don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.
Luke 12:22b-23
worrying | food | life
Let the husband give his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife her husband. The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
1 Corinthians 7:3-4
marriage | sexuality
For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
2 Corinthians 5:1
life | death | heaven
God, you are my God.
I will earnestly seek you.
My soul thirsts for you.
My flesh longs for you,
in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.
Psalm 63:1
worship | seeking | soul
Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which he had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.” Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
Genesis 2:22-24
marriage | creation | sexuality
He took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body which is given for you. Do this in memory of me.”
Luke 22:19
bread | gratitude | Jesus
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:13
baptism | Spirit | community
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.
John 6:56
blood | Jesus | nearness
If I give away 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.
1 Corinthians 13:3
love | suffering | giving
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
Romans 13:14
desires | addiction | Jesus
Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
Ephesians 5:28
relationships | marriage
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.
1 Peter 2:24
sin | righteousness | healing
I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.
John 6:51
bread | Jesus | world
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.
Ephesians 5:22-23
marriage | Jesus | salvation
For this cause a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife. Then the two will become one flesh.
Ephesians 5:31
marriage | sexuality
He said to them, “Are you also without understanding? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him, because it doesn’t go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, making all foods clean?”
Mark 7:18-19
food | heart
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, that each one of you know how to control his own body in sanctification and honor, not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-5
holiness | sexuality | self-control
Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.
Galatians 5:19-21
sin | sexuality | idols
But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife, and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.
Mark 10:6-9
marriage | sexuality
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
Romans 8:5
life | Spirit | dependence
As they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks for it, and broke it. He gave to the disciples and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.”
Matthew 26:26
bread | Jesus
Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
1 Corinthians 6:18
sexuality | sin