Bible Verses about “piercings and tattoos”
The Bible contains 50 verses about piercings and tattoos 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.”
“¶ 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.”
“¶ 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;”
“Whose adorning let it not be that outward [adorning] of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;”
“But [let it be] the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, [even the ornament] of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.”
“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?”
“And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because [he eateth] not of faith: for whatsoever [is] not of faith is sin.”
“My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:”
“¶ The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction.”
“¶ 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.”
“For they [shall be] an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.”
“A wise [man] will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:”
“¶ Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:”
“She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, [saying],”
“But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.”
“And he hath on [his] vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”
“For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.”
“For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:”
“Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;”
“But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:”
“I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;”
“When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.”
“Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:”
“They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.”
“Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.”
“My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:”
“How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?”
“To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.”
“¶ My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.”
“So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof.”
“Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.”
“¶ All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.”
“To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;”
“To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.”
“We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:”
“For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.”
“To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;”
“If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:”
“Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:”
“Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:”
“Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.”
“And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives.”
“¶ The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;”
“The carpenter stretcheth out [his] rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.”
“Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I [am] the LORD that maketh all [things]; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;”
“Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I [am] the first, and I [am] the last; and beside me [there is] no God.”