Are you a spiritual person but are struggling to move forward spiritually? Are you curious as to why some people seem to progress faster than others? Are you feeling stagnant, not sure what to do next, or questioning if you should wait for something more before continuing?
Spiritual health is a huge part of our lives, and we need to learn how to stay strong in our faith. Reading the Bible can help us better understand what God wants from us and how he wants to help others. It’s important that we stay grounded in these truths as we go through life’s hardest moments and make daily decisions that affect our spiritual health.
The Bible is filled with verses about spiritual health, because it is the most important thing in life. God placed us here on earth for a purpose – to seek Him, learn about His love for us, and make Him known to others.
Bible Verses About Spiritual Health
Colossians 3:16 ESV / 38 helpful votes
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
John 14:15 ESV / 14 helpful votes
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 13 helpful votes
But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,
Exodus 23:25 ESV / 13 helpful votes
You shall serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.
Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 11 helpful votes
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 8 helpful votes
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
John 14:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes
But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
Ephesians 2:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—
Matthew 5:32 ESV / 7 helpful votes
But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Romans 12:2 ESV / 6 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.
Matthew 6:33 ESV / 6 helpful votes
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Matthew 4:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes
But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
Ezekiel 18:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die.
Proverbs 19:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.
1 Thessalonians 5:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 7:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”
Genesis 1:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
1 Corinthians 5:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father’s wife.
1 Corinthians 2:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.
Proverbs 4:20-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes
My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart. For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh. Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.
Exodus 15:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.”
1 Thessalonians 5:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Pray without ceasing,
Ephesians 5:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart,
Acts 20:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight.
Acts 17:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
Proverbs 23:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite.
Scriptures about spiritual life
1 Corinthians 15:45
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So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
Galatians 5:25
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If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.
2 Corinthians 3:17
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Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
John 3:6
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That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Romans 8:13
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for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
2 Corinthians 3:6
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who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Romans 8:10
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If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
1 Peter 1:23
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for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God.
Job 33:4
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“The Spirit of God has made me,
And the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
Ephesians 4:23
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and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
Galatians 6:8
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For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
1 Corinthians 6:17
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But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him.
Romans 8:5
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For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
Colossians 3:3
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For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
1 Peter 2:5
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you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Romans 8:1
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Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
2 Corinthians 1:22
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who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge.
John 6:35
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Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst.
Ephesians 2:1
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And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
Ecclesiastes 12:7
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then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
1 Corinthians 1:30
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But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,
Romans 8:14
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For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
John 1:4
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In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men.
1 John 5:12
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He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.
