What Does the Bible Say About Body-image?

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

Romans 12:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Psalm 139:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

Psalm 139:14-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

John 14:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Proverbs 31:30 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

8 Bible Verses about Body-image

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Romans 12:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 12:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 139:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 139:14-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Proverbs 31:30 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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8 Bible Verses about Body-image

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1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Romans 12:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 12:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 139:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 139:14-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Proverbs 31:30 ESV / 1 helpful vote