tattooing your body
What does the Bible say about tattooing your body? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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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.
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.
16And he has on his garment and on his thigh written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
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?
16Do you not know that you are the Temple of God, and that the Spirit of God lives within you?
33Therefore, seek first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all these things shall be added to you as well. 34Therefore, do not be anxious about tomorrow; for the future day will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its evil.”
7And the Lord said to Samuel: “You should not look with favor on his face, nor on the height of his stature. For I have rejected him. Neither do I judge by the appearance of a man. For man sees those things that are apparent, but the Lord beholds the heart.”
20For you have been bought at a great price. Glorify and carry God in your body.