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Bible Verses About piercings and tattoos

15 key scriptures

Explore what the Bible says about piercings and tattoos. This collection of 15 key Scripture passages reveals God's wisdom and guidance on this important 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.

15 Key Scriptures

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?
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
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:
All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
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
One shall say, I am the LORD'S; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head. forehead: Heb. nose

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