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The 12 most-voted verses about body piercings, from 8 books, ranked by the OpenBible.info community.

You must not make any cuts in your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.

Leviticus 19:28 (BSB)

Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I [am] the LORD.

Leviticus 19:28 (KJV)

“‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am the LORD.

Leviticus 19:28 (WEB)

then his master is to bring him before the judges. And he shall take him to the door or doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he shall serve his master for life.

Exodus 21:6 (BSB)

Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.

Exodus 21:6 (KJV)

then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.

Exodus 21:6 (WEB)

You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or shave your foreheads on behalf of the dead,

Deuteronomy 14:1 (BSB)

Ye [are] the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

Deuteronomy 14:1 (KJV)

You are the children of the LORD your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

Deuteronomy 14:1 (WEB)

Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,

1 Timothy 2:9 (BSB)

In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;

1 Timothy 2:9 (KJV)

In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety, not with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing,

1 Timothy 2:9 (WEB)

“These are the ordinances that you are to set before them:

Exodus 21:1 (BSB)

Now these [are] the judgments which thou shalt set before them.

Exodus 21:1 (KJV)

“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them:

Exodus 21:1 (WEB)

Priests must not make bald spots on their heads, shave off the edges of their beards, or make cuts in their bodies.

Leviticus 21:5 (BSB)

They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.

Leviticus 21:5 (KJV)

“‘They shall not shave their heads or shave off the corners of their beards or make any cuttings in their flesh.

Leviticus 21:5 (WEB)

then take an awl and pierce it through his ear into the door, and he will become your servant for life. And treat your maidservant the same way.

Deuteronomy 15:17 (BSB)

Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust [it] through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise.

Deuteronomy 15:17 (KJV)

then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female servant you shall do likewise.

Deuteronomy 15:17 (WEB)

So they shouted louder and cut themselves with knives and lances, as was their custom, until the blood gushed over them.

1 Kings 18:28 (BSB)

And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.

1 Kings 18:28 (KJV)

They cried aloud, and cut themselves in their way with knives and lances until the blood gushed out on them.

1 Kings 18:28 (WEB)

Because of the multiplication of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold.

Matthew 24:12 (BSB)

And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

Matthew 24:12 (KJV)

Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.

Matthew 24:12 (WEB)

But the one who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that is not from faith is sin.

Romans 14:23 (BSB)

And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because [he eateth] not of faith: for whatsoever [is] not of faith is sin.

Romans 14:23 (KJV)

But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.

Romans 14:23 (WEB)

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;

1 Corinthians 6:19 (BSB)

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

1 Corinthians 6:19 (KJV)

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

1 Corinthians 6:19 (WEB)

So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.

1 Corinthians 10:31 (BSB)

Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

1 Corinthians 10:31 (KJV)

Whether therefore you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

1 Corinthians 10:31 (WEB)

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