Bible Verses about “body piercings and tattoos”
The Bible contains 21 verses about body piercings and tattoos across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,”
“for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.”
“"'You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.”
“I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.”
“In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing;”
“This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,”
“Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.”
“Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?”
“If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.”
“But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn't of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.”
“"Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.”
“You are the children of Yahweh your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.”
“I put a ring on your nose, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.”
“He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, "KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS."”
“then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female servant you shall do likewise.”
“then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.”
“having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace;”
“So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.”
“They cried aloud, and cut themselves in their way with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them.”
“But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.”
“But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed.”