Leviticus 19:28 ESV / 238 helpful votesYou shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord. Show
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 119 helpful votesOr 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. 1 Timothy 2:9 ESV / 88 helpful votesLikewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, Deuteronomy 14:1 ESV / 60 helpful votes“You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead. 1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 57 helpful votesOr 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, 1 Corinthians 3:17 ESV / 44 helpful votesIf anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple. Ezekiel 16:12 ESV / 44 helpful votesAnd I put a ring on your nose and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head. 1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 28 helpful votesSo, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. Revelation 1:1 ESV / 21 helpful votesThe revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, Isaiah 49:16 ESV / 20 helpful votesBehold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me. Revelation 19:16 ESV / 17 helpful votesOn his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords. 1 Kings 18:28 ESV / 16 helpful votesAnd they cried aloud and cut themselves after their custom with swords and lances, until the blood gushed out upon them. 1 Corinthians 10:23 ESV / 15 helpful votes“All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up. Exodus 21:6 ESV / 15 helpful votesThen his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever. 1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 14 helpful votes“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV / 13 helpful votesDo you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? 1 Corinthians 15:44 ESV / 12 helpful votesIt is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 ESV / 11 helpful votesDo you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple. Isaiah 3:18-23 ESV / 11 helpful votesIn that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets, the headbands, and the crescents; the pendants, the bracelets, and the scarves; the headdresses, the armlets, the sashes, the perfume boxes, and the amulets; the signet rings and nose rings; the festal robes, the mantles, the cloaks, and the handbags; ... 1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 11 helpful votesBut 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 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 10 helpful votesFlee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. Romans 14:23 ESV / 10 helpful votesBut whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin. John 3:16-17 ESV / 10 helpful votes“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Romans 12:1 ESV / 9 helpful votesI 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. 1 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 8 helpful votesDo 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 Kings 18:1-46 ESV / 8 helpful votesAfter many days the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the earth.” So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria. And Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly, and when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water.) And Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the valleys. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, and not lose some of the animals.” ... Colossians 3:20 ESV / 7 helpful votesChildren, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. 2 Corinthians 4:10 ESV / 7 helpful votesAlways carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. Luke 11:34 ESV / 7 helpful votesYour eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness. Colossians 2:17 ESV / 6 helpful votesThese are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. Philippians 3:21 ESV / 6 helpful votesWho will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself. Ephesians 5:10 ESV / 6 helpful votesAnd try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord. Ephesians 4:16 ESV / 6 helpful votesFrom whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love. Ephesians 2:15 ESV / 6 helpful votesBy abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, 2 Corinthians 12:3 ESV / 6 helpful votesAnd I know that this man was caught up into paradise—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows— 2 Corinthians 12:2 ESV / 6 helpful votesI know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows. 1 Corinthians 15:38 ESV / 6 helpful votesBut God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body. 1 Corinthians 12:27 ESV / 6 helpful votesNow you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. 1 Corinthians 12:16 ESV / 6 helpful votesAnd if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. 1 Corinthians 12:15 ESV / 6 helpful votesIf the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. 1 Corinthians 12:14 ESV / 6 helpful votesFor the body does not consist of one member but of many. 1 Corinthians 12:12 ESV / 6 helpful votesFor just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 1 Corinthians 7:4 ESV / 6 helpful votesFor the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Romans 7:24 ESV / 6 helpful votesWretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Romans 1:24 ESV / 6 helpful votesTherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, John 19:38 ESV / 6 helpful votesAfter these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took away his body. Luke 23:52 ESV / 6 helpful votesThis man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Luke 1:37 ESV / 6 helpful votesFor nothing will be impossible with God.” Matthew 27:59 ESV / 6 helpful votesAnd Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen shroud Matthew 27:58 ESV / 6 helpful votesHe went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him. Matthew 10:28 ESV / 6 helpful votesAnd do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell. Matthew 6:25 ESV / 6 helpful votes“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Matthew 6:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes“The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, Proverbs 1:1-33 ESV / 6 helpful votesThe proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth— Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, ... Psalm 139:14 ESV / 6 helpful votesI praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. Psalm 23:4 ESV / 6 helpful votesEven though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. Job 19:17 ESV / 6 helpful votesMy breath is strange to my wife, and I am a stench to the children of my own mother. Joshua 1:9 ESV / 6 helpful votesHave I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” Deuteronomy 15:17 ESV / 6 helpful votesThen you shall take an awl, and put it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your slave forever. And to your female slave you shall do the same. Numbers 19:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes“Whoever touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean seven days. Exodus 32:2-3 ESV / 6 helpful votesSo Aaron said to them, “Take off the rings of gold that are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.” So all the people took off the rings of gold that were in their ears and brought them to Aaron. Galatians 3:23-25 ESV / 5 helpful votesNow before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed. So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian, 1 Corinthians 10:20 ESV / 5 helpful votesNo, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons. 1 Corinthians 9:27 ESV / 5 helpful votesBut I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified. 1 Corinthians 6:20 ESV / 5 helpful votesFor you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. Romans 10:4 ESV / 5 helpful votesFor Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. John 2:21 ESV / 5 helpful votesBut he was speaking about the temple of his body. Leviticus 19:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes“You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind. You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor shall you wear a garment of cloth made of two kinds of material. 1 John 4:8 ESV / 4 helpful votesAnyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 4 helpful votesFor God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control. Colossians 3:5 ESV / 4 helpful votesPut to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. Romans 12:2 ESV / 4 helpful votesDo 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 24:12 ESV / 4 helpful votesAnd because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. Matthew 5:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 4 helpful votesFear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. Isaiah 3:16-24 ESV / 4 helpful votesThe Lord said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks, glancing wantonly with their eyes, mincing along as they go, tinkling with their feet, therefore the Lord will strike with a scab the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will lay bare their secret parts. In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets, the headbands, and the crescents; the pendants, the bracelets, and the scarves; the headdresses, the armlets, the sashes, the perfume boxes, and the amulets; ... Song of Solomon 2:15 ESV / 4 helpful votesCatch the foxes for us, the little foxes that spoil the vineyards, for our vineyards are in blossom.” Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 4 helpful votesA Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ... Leviticus 21:5 ESV / 4 helpful votesThey shall not make bald patches on their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuts on their body. Leviticus 19:4 ESV / 4 helpful votesDo not turn to idols or make for yourselves any gods of cast metal: I am the Lord your God. Leviticus 19:1-37 ESV / 4 helpful votesAnd the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy. Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God. Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves any gods of cast metal: I am the Lord your God. “When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted. ... Exodus 21:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes“Now these are the rules that you shall set before them. Exodus 20:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. Leviticus 19:27 ESV / 3 helpful votesYou shall not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard. What does the King James Bible say about tattoos?Today they're common everywhere from Maori communities in New Zealand to office parks in Ohio. But in the ancient Middle East, the writers of the Hebrew Bible forbade tattooing. Per Leviticus 19:28, “You shall not make gashes in your flesh for the dead, or incise any marks on yourselves.”
Is a piercing a sin in the Bible?Some Christians who are against body piercing use the “Book of Leviticus” to support the view that body piercing is a sin, arguing that you “should never mark your body”. While others read the same Book and interpret the marking of the body as more figurative than literal.
Is it forbidden to have tattoos in the Bible?The Bible warns against tattoos in Leviticus 19:28 (Amplified) which says, “Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print or tattoo any marks upon you: I am the Lord.”
Are piercings OK for Christians?Several religions do not allow piercings; however, Christians are able to have piercings. What does the Bible say about piercings? The Bible has multiple mentions of body jewelry and piercings (nose rings, earrings etc). In fact, body jewelry was used in dowries for marriage and as currency.
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