health and fitness
What does the Bible say about health and fitness? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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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.
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.
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.
29And God said: “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant upon the earth, and all the trees that have in themselves the ability to sow their own kind, to be food for you,
13Everything is possible in him who has strengthened me.
9And you shall take for yourself wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and vetch. And you shall set them in one vessel, and you shall make for yourself bread by the number of days that you will sleep upon your side: three hundred and ninety days shall you shall eat from it.
1And so, I beg you, brothers, by the mercy of God, that you offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, with the subservience of your mind.
22But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, forbearance, 23meekness, faith, modesty, abstinence, chastity. There is no law against such things.
35It is he who trains my hands for battle. And you have set my arms like a bow of brass.
18And do not choose to be inebriated by wine, for this is self-indulgence. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit,
15But, after ten days, their faces appeared better and fatter than all the children who had eaten from the king’s food. 16Thereafter, Malasar took away their portions and their wine for drinking, and he gave them roots.
30The well-being of the heart is life for the flesh. But envy is decay for the bones.
8But Daniel resolved in his heart that he would not be polluted with the king’s meal, nor with the wine he drank, and he requested of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not be contaminated.
7For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of virtue, and of love, and of self-restraint.