Bible Verses about โmarking your bodyโ
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.
โOr 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,โ
โfor you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.โ
โ"'You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.โ
โIn 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;โ
โDon't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?โ
โIf anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.โ
โFor if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,โ
โthen we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.โ
โFor the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God's trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,โ
โholding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.โ
โTherefore comfort one another with these words.โ
โFor the overseer must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;โ
โbut given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled;โ
โI left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking, and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you;โ
โif anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.โ
โThey profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.โ
โTo the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.โ
โOne of them, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons."โ
โnot paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.โ
โFor there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,โ
โThis testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,โ
โFor Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.โ
โwhose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain's sake.โ
โin hope of eternal life, which God, who can't lie, promised before time began;โ
โPaul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,โ
โbut in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;โ
โto Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.โ
