tattoos
What does the Bible say about tattoos? 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.
31Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever else you may do, do everything for the glory of God.
23All is lawful to me, but not all is edifying.
1“Be sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make yourselves bald, because of the dead.
10affirming what is well-pleasing to God.
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.
14consider that you do not know what will be tomorrow.
12And because iniquity has abounded, the charity of many will grow cold.