A Christian Guide to Body Stewardship, Diet and Exercise

Chapter 1: Biblical Foundations: Human Body, Fitness and Care 14 25 Important Verses About the Body 1. Genesis 1:27: So, God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 2. Genesis 1:31: And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. 3. Genesis 2:15: The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. 4. Deuteronomy 6:5: You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 5. 1 Samuel 16:7: 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.” 6. Proverbs 21:25: The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor. 7. Proverbs 31:30: Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised. 8. Song of Songs: A recognition of the goodness of the perceptions of beauty between spouses. 9. John 1:14: And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. 10. John 20:27-28: Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side. Do not disbelieve, but believe.” Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!” 11. Romans 6:11–13: So, you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. 12. Romans 8:22–23: For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. 13. Romans 12:1: I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

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