Top 13 Bible Verses About Body Image

Here are the top 13 Bible verses about body image to study when you are struggling with your own body image or to share with someone else that may be having issues with their body image.

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Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;

- 1 John 3:21

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Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.

- Hebrews 10:35

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When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.

- Genesis 5:3

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So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.

- 2 Corinthians 4:16

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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. 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.

- Romans 12:1-2

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Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its Creator.

- Colossians 3:9-10

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For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

- Romans 8:29

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And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

- 2 Corinthians 3:18

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For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man.

- 1 Corinthians 11:7

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“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.

- Genesis 9:6

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Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.

- 1 Corinthians 15:49

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Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

- Genesis 1:26

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So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

- Genesis 1:27

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5 Stories From The Bible About Body Image

Here are 5 stories from the Bible about people’s body images.

Wonderfully Made

Many people body shame others, but that’s sin to God and it hurts others.  The Word of God tells us that each of us are made in a very special way, and there are no two like us anywhere, so we should praise God as the psalmist who wrote, “I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well” (Psalm 139:14)!   That means, you are unique and made just the way God intended.  Why?  I don’t know, but I do know the Potter knows what He’s doing.

Seeing the Heart

It’s in our nature to look at people and pick out their flaws.  They might be overweight, old and wrinkled, have scars, be short, tall, bald, or wide, “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” (1 Samuel 16:7). The Lord says to us too…don’t look at the outward appearance, because the more important inward person is what is most important to God.

The Temple of God

Can you imagine someone committing sexual immorality inside the temple of God?  But that’s just what some do who are involved in sexual activity with someone who is not their spouse.   Don’t you remember 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” (1 Corinthians 6:19-20).

The Hidden Person

We might think we know someone really well, but only God and that person know what’s inside.  The Apostle Peter said, “Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious” (1 Peter 3:3-4).  What is more beautiful to God?  It’s not the outward appearance, which we tend to value more, but a gentle and quiet spirit is very precious in God’s sight.

Fearing God

Our spring flowers are so beautiful, but they quickly wilt when the summer winds come.  They are glorious for a time, but then their glory fades.  We can appreciate and value beauty, but even that will pass away someday.  Solomon wrote, “Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised” (Proverbs 31:30).  What is inside will live on beyond what is on the outside.

Whatever you think of your own body, you were created in the image of God, whether male or female.  Besides, we’ve got a new body coming and one that will overshadow this body in ways we can’t even imagine.

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