Bible Verses About Ear Piercings
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for ear piercings, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 4,388 votes, led by Ezekiel 16:12. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Ear Piercings
Ezekiel 16:12545 votes
And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.
Leviticus 19:28443 votes
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord.
Exodus 21:6328 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.
Deuteronomy 15:17284 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.
1 Timothy 2:9267 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;
Genesis 35:4204 votes
And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
Proverbs 25:12132 votes
As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.
Hosea 2:13129 votes
And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the Lord.
Judges 8:24120 votes
And Gideon said unto them, I would desire a request of you, that ye would give me every man the earrings of his prey. (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)
Exodus 21:5-6114 votes
And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
1 Corinthians 6:19105 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?
Exodus 32:2-387 votes
And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.
1 Corinthians 6:2082 votes
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
Isaiah 3:2072 votes
The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
1 John 2:15-1671 votes
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1 John 2:1563 votes
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Numbers 31:5061 votes
We have therefore brought an oblation for the Lord, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the Lord.
Exodus 35:2255 votes
And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto the Lord.
1 Peter 3:352 votes
Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
1 Peter 3:3-448 votes
Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
Genesis 24:2244 votes
And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;
1 Corinthians 6:19-2042 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?
Isaiah 3:16-2341 votes
Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
1 Corinthians 10:3128 votes
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
Exodus 33:4-627 votes
And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.
What does the Bible say about ear piercings?
Readers most often cite Ezekiel 16:12 on the subject of ear piercings. Across 4,388 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Leviticus 19:28, Exodus 21:6, Deuteronomy 15:17. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.