Bible Verses about “body piercings and tattoos”

“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?”

“For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.”

“Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I [am] the LORD.”

“I will praise thee; for I am fearfully [and] wonderfully made: marvellous [are] thy works; and [that] my soul knoweth right well.”

“¶ 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;”

“¶ 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:”

“Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.”

“¶ Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”

“If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which [temple] ye are.”

“And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because [he eateth] not of faith: for whatsoever [is] not of faith is sin.”

“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.”

“¶ Ye [are] the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.”

“And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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;”

“Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster [to bring us] unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.”

“And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.”

“But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.”

“But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.”