body piercings and tattoos

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.

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?

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,

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

¹⁴I will confess to you, for you have been magnified terribly. Your works are miraculous, as my soul knows exceedingly well.

²⁰For you have been bought at a great price. Glorify and carry God in your body.

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.

¹⁶Do you not know that you are the Temple of God, and that the Spirit of God lives within you?

¹⁵emptying the law of commandments by decree, so that he might join these two, in himself, into one new man, making peace

¹³Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food. But God shall destroy both the stomach and food. And the body is not for fornication, but rather for the Lord; and the Lord is for the body.

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.

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.

¹⁶And he has on his garment and on his thigh written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.

⁴For the end of the law, Christ, is unto justice for all who believe.

¹The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him, in order to make known to his servants the things that must soon occur, and which he signified by sending his Angel to his servant John;

¹⁷But if anyone violates the Temple of God, God will destroy him. For the Temple of God is holy, and you are that Temple.

²³But before the faith arrived, we were preserved by being enclosed under the law, unto that faith which was to be revealed. ²⁴And so the law was our guardian in Christ, in order that we might be justified by faith. ²⁵But now that faith has arrived, we are no longer under a guardian.

¹²And I put gold upon your face, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown upon your head.