health
What does the Bible say about health? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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2Most beloved, concerning everything, I make it my prayer that you may benefit by advancing and succeeding in whatever may be to the benefit of your soul.
19Or do you not know that your bodies are the Temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? 20For you have been bought at a great price. Glorify and carry God in your body.
22A joyful soul makes a lifetime flourish. A gloomy spirit dries out the bones.
7Do not seem wise to yourself. Fear God, and withdraw from evil. 8Certainly, it shall be health to your navel, and refreshment to your bones.
26saying: “If you will listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in his sight, and obey his commands, and keep all his precepts, I will not bring upon you any of the distress that I imposed on Egypt. For I am the Lord, your healer.”
25And you shall serve the Lord your God, so that I may bless your bread and your waters, and so that I may take away sickness from your midst.
24Careful words are a honeycomb: sweet to the soul and healthful to the bones.
8For the exercise of the body is somewhat useful. But piety is useful in all things, holding the promise of life, in the present and in the future.
31Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever else you may do, do everything for the glory of God.
3He heals the contrite of heart, and he binds up their sorrows.
6Behold, I will lead over them scars and health, and I will cure them. And I will reveal to them an invocation of peace and truth.