Bible Verses About Body Piercings and Tattoos
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for body piercings and tattoos, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 607 votes, led by Leviticus 19:28. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Body Piercings and Tattoos
Leviticus 19:28124 votes
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord.
1 Corinthians 6:19-2063 votes
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?
Deuteronomy 14:145 votes
Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
1 Corinthians 10:3142 votes
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
1 Corinthians 6:1935 votes
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 Timothy 2:933 votes
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;
Romans 14:2329 votes
And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
Psalms 139:1428 votes
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Exodus 21:621 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 6:2021 votes
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
1 Corinthians 3:1619 votes
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Ephesians 2:1518 votes
Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
1 Corinthians 6:1317 votes
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
1 Kings 18:2816 votes
And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
Revelation 19:1616 votes
And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
Deuteronomy 15:1715 votes
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.
Ezekiel 16:1213 votes
And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.
Romans 10:413 votes
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
1 Corinthians 3:1713 votes
If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Galatians 3:23-2513 votes
But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
Revelation 1:113 votes
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
What does the Bible say about body piercings and tattoos?
Readers most often cite Leviticus 19:28 on the subject of body piercings and tattoos. Across 607 votes, 21 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, Deuteronomy 14:1, 1 Corinthians 10:31. This page lists all 21 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.