Shaving The Body

“‘You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your heads, neither shall you clip off the edge of your beard.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.

“‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

Doesn’t even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you. — read the full passage →

In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →

They continued three years without war between Syria and Israel. — read the full passage →

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.

so shall my word be that goes out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision? — read the full passage →

Paul, having stayed after this many more days, took his leave of the brothers, and sailed from there for Syria, together with Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow.

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delights— I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;

They have gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba. Baldness is on all of their heads. Every beard is cut off.

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.

So Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.

Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman. — read the full passage →

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — read the full passage →

Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win. — read the full passage →

In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it; — read the full passage →

therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head of the women of Zion, and Yahweh will make their scalps bald.”

Now when these things were done, the princes drew near to me, saying, “The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, following their abominations, even those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. — read the full passage →

Yahweh said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, ‘A priest shall not defile himself for the dead among his people; — read the full passage →

Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them, — read the full passage →

Binding his foal to the vine, his donkey’s colt to the choice vine; he has washed his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.

God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth. — read the full passage →

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

They cried aloud, and cut themselves in their way with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them.

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.” — read the full passage →

and not as Moses, who put a veil on his face, that the children of Israel wouldn’t look steadfastly on the end of that which was passing away.