Bible Verses About Tattoos
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for tattoos, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,519 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 Tattoos
Leviticus 19:28817 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 6:19-20348 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?
Revelation 19:16188 votes
And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
1 Corinthians 10:31168 votes
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
Deuteronomy 14:1160 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.
Ephesians 5:10156 votes
Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
1 Corinthians 10:23125 votes
All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
Romans 1:24102 votes
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
James 4:1458 votes
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Matthew 24:1248 votes
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
Isaiah 49:1639 votes
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
Revelation 22:436 votes
And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
Psalms 139:1-2434 votes
O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.
Ephesians 6:1-2432 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Proverbs 11:14-1729 votes
Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
1 Samuel 10:625 votes
And the Spirit of the Lord will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man.
Psalms 119:11-4425 votes
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
Hebrews 10:1625 votes
This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
Jude 1:825 votes
Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
Ezekiel 8:1-1821 votes
And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord God fell there upon me.
2 Chronicles 15:1-1916 votes
And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded:
Isaiah 44:1-2812 votes
Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:
Ezekiel 2:1-3:2710 votes
And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak unto thee.
Ezekiel 11:1-12:2810 votes
Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the Lord’s house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
Ezekiel 20:1-4910 votes
And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to enquire of the Lord, and sat before me.
What does the Bible say about tattoos?
Readers most often cite Leviticus 19:28 on the subject of tattoos. Across 2,519 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, Revelation 19:16, 1 Corinthians 10:31. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.