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Tattoos Body Piercings
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Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am Jehovah.
Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own; — read the full passage →
In like manner, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefastness and sobriety; not with braided hair, and gold or pearls or costly raiment;
Ye are the children of Jehovah your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;
If any man destroyeth the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye.
And I put a ring upon thy nose, and ear-rings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thy head.
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
And he hath on his garment and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lances, till the blood gushed out upon them.
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:
then his master shall bring him unto God, and shall bring him to the door, or unto the door-post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.
All things are lawful; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful; but not all things edify.
Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, and the cauls, and the crescents; — read the full passage →
it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
But Jehovah said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for Jehovah seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but Jehovah looketh on the heart.
Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? — read the full passage →
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
But he that doubteth is condemned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith; and whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →
Whoseadorninglet it not be the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on apparel; — read the full passage →
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
The lamp of thy body is thine eye: when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when it is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.
And I know such a man (whether in the body, or apart from the body, I know not; God knoweth),
always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body.
And it came to pass after many days, that the word of Jehovah came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, Go, show thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth. — read the full passage →
which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.
who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working whereby he is able even to subject all things unto himself.
proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord;
from whom all the body fitly framed and knit together through that which every joint supplieth, according to the working in due measure of each several part, maketh the increase of the body unto the building up of itself in love.
having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; that he might create in himself of the two one new man, so making peace;
I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I know not; or whether out of the body, I know not; God knoweth), such a one caught up even to the third heaven.
but God giveth it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.
Now ye are the body of Christ, and severally members thereof.
And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body.
If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body.
For the body is not one member, but many.
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.
The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power over his own body, but the wife.
Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?
Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves:
And after these things Joseph of Arimathæa, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took away his body.
this man went to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus.
For no word from God shall be void of power.
And Joseph took the body, and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,
this man went to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded it to be given up.
And be not afraid of them that kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Therefore I say unto you, Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment?
The lamp of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel: — read the full passage →
I will give thanks unto thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Wonderful are thy works; And that my soul knoweth right well.
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.
My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the children of mine own mother.
Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage; be not affrighted, neither be thou dismayed: for Jehovah thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
then thou shalt take an awl, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maid-servant thou shalt do likewise.
He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days:
Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with two kinds of seed: neither shall there come upon thee a garment of two kinds of stuff mingled together.
And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me. — read the full passage →
But before faith came, we were kept in ward under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. — read the full passage →
But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have communion with demons.
but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.
For Christ is the end of the law unto righteousness to every one that believeth.
But he spake of the temple of his body.
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.
Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
And because iniquity shall be multiplied, the love of the many shall wax cold.
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
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.
Moreover Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet; — read the full passage →
Take us the foxes, the little foxes, That spoil the vineyards; For our vineyards are in blossom.
Jehovah is my shepherd; I shall not want. — 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.
Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am Jehovah your God.
And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →
Now these are the ordinances which thou shalt set before them.
Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.
Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
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