piercings
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28You shall not cut your flesh for the dead, and you shall not make other figures or marks on yourself. I am the Lord.
12And I put gold upon your face, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown upon your head.
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.
5Neither shall they shave their head or their beard, and they shall not make incisions in their flesh.
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.
23All is lawful to me, but not all is edifying.
18In that day, the Lord will take away their decorative shoes, 19and the little moons and chains, and the necklaces and bracelets, and the hats, 20and the ornaments for their hair, and the anklets, and the touches of myrrh and little bottles of perfumes, and the earrings, 21and the rings, and the jewels hanging on their foreheads, 22and the continual changes in appearance, and the short skirts, and the fine linens and embroidered cloths, 23and the mirrors, and scarves, and ribbons, and their sparse clothing.
24For this reason, God handed them over to the desires of their own heart for impurity, so that they afflicted their own bodies with indignities among themselves.
1Unto the end. A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have examined me, and you have known me. 2You have known my sitting down and my rising up again. 3You have understood my thoughts from afar. My path and my fate, you have investigated. 4And you have foreseen all my ways. For there is no word in my tongue. 5Behold, O Lord, you have known all things: the newest and the very old. You have formed me, and you have placed your hand over me. 6Your knowledge has become a wonder to me. It has been reinforced, and I am not able to prevail against it.
17And he said to me: “Certainly, son of man, you have seen. Can this be so trivial to the house of Judah, when they commit these abominations, just as they have committed here, that, having filled the earth with iniquity, they now turn to provoke me? And behold, they are applying a branch to their nose.
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,