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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 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 →
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;
Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
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?
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.
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 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:
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
And he hath on his vesture 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 lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
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.
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.
All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
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 →
It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
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.
Know ye not that ye are the 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.
And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
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 →
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 →
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.
The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
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 →
Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
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;
I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it 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 that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
And after this Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.
This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,
He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought 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 meat, and the body than raiment?
The light 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 praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous 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, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.
Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
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.
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 mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.
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 →
But before faith came, we were kept 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 devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.
But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
For Christ is the end of the law for 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 hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
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.
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of 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 the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth 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 vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
The Lord 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 the Lord your God.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →
Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord 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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