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.
Your body is a temple. Not a metaphor for how you should treat your skin and muscles like a shrine — an actual claim that something sacred has taken up residence in you. That's a strange thing to hear if you've spent your life thinking of your body as just a vehicle, or worse, as something to be constantly fixed and criticized.
The passage doesn't say this because you earned it. It says you were bought at a price — which means the value was placed on you from the outside, by someone else's cost, not by your own performance. You don't have to prove you're worth housing something holy. The claim comes first.
If that's true, it changes the question. Not "how do I make myself good enough," but "what does it look like to live like the place I already am matters?" That's worth sitting with, whether or not you've settled what you believe about God yet.
If the idea that your body might carry something sacred is new to you, it's worth exploring who this Spirit is said to be.
A short video on this is coming soon — for now, read on.