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Body Piercings And Tattoos
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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? — read the full passage →
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.
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;
And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
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.
And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
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.
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. — read the full passage →
If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.
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.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →
But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; — read the full passage →
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. — read the full passage →
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon, — read the full passage →
They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me. — read the full passage →
Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen: — read the full passage →
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; — read the full passage →
And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. — read the full passage →
Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?
And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
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.
And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the Lord came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth. — read the full passage →
And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto the Lord.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? — read the full passage →
But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the Lord spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days. — read the full passage →
Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →
If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.
Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. — read the full passage →
And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
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; — read the full passage →
For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the Lord.
He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.
The Lord standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.
Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. — read the full passage →
Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.
Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the Lord your God.
Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
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