Bible Verses about “marking your body”
The Bible contains 27 verses about marking your body across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“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.”
“¶ 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;”
“¶ 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.”
“For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,”
“Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”
“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:”
“Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.”
“Wherefore comfort one another with these words.”
“For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;”
“But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;”
“¶ For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:”
“¶ If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.”
“They profess that they know God; but in works they deny [him], being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.”
“Unto the pure all things [are] pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving [is] nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.”
“One of themselves, [even] a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians [are] alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.”
“Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.”
“For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:”
“This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;”
“For Christ [is] the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.”
“Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.”
“In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;”
“¶ Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;”
“But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;”
“To Titus, [mine] own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, [and] peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.”