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Bible Verses About body piercings and tattoos

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What does the Bible say about body piercings and tattoos? Browse 20 carefully selected verses that illuminate this biblical theme.

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TranslationKey Verse: Leviticus 19:28
King James (KJV)Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.

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Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; broided: or, plaited
And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin. doubteth: or, discerneth and putteth a difference between meats damned: or, condemned, or liable to punishment
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. right: Heb. greatly
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. Meats: not flesh only, but food of any kind
And they cried aloud , and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them. the blood: Heb. poured out blood upon them
Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise.
And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head. forehead: Heb. nose
If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. defile: or, destroy

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