body piercings

²⁸You shall not cut your flesh for the dead, and you shall not make other figures or marks on yourself. I am the Lord.

¹⁹Or do you not know that your bodies are the Temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? ²⁰For you have been bought at a great price. Glorify and carry God in your body.

¹“Be sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make yourselves bald, because of the dead.

⁹Similarly also, women should be dressed fittingly, adorning themselves with compunction and restraint, and not with plaited hair, nor gold, nor pearls, nor costly attire,

⁶then his lord shall make an offering for him to the heavens, and it shall be applied to the door and the posts, and he will pierce his ear with an awl. And he shall be his servant in perpetuity.

³¹Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever else you may do, do everything for the glory of God.

¹⁹Or do you not know that your bodies are the Temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?

²³But he who discerns, if he eats, is condemned, because it is not of faith. For all that is not of faith is sin.

²⁸Then they cried out with a loud voice, and they cut themselves, in accord with their ritual, with knives and lancets, until they were entirely covered in blood.

¹²And because iniquity has abounded, the charity of many will grow cold.

¹⁷then you shall take an awl and pierce his ear, at the door of your house. And he shall serve you even forever. You shall also act similarly toward your woman servant.

⁵Neither shall they shave their head or their beard, and they shall not make incisions in their flesh.

¹“These are the judgments which you shall place before them: