14 Bible Verses about Body Tattoos (KJV)

Here are 14 Bible verses about body tattoos, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

Leviticus 19:28 KJV

²⁸Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord.

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Galatians 6:17 KJV

¹⁷From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.

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1 Corinthians 10:31 KJV

³¹Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

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1 Corinthians 6:19-20 KJV

¹⁹What? 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? ²⁰For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

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1 Corinthians 6:19 KJV

¹⁹What? 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?

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Exodus 21:6 KJV

⁶Then 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.

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1 Corinthians 6:13 KJV

¹³Meats 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.

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1 Kings 18:24-29 KJV

²⁴And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the Lord: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken. ²⁵And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire under. ²⁶And they took the bullock …

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1 Timothy 2:9 KJV

⁹In 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;

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Ephesians 2:15 KJV

¹⁵Having 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;

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Deuteronomy 15:17 KJV

¹⁷Then 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.

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Deuteronomy 14:1 KJV

¹Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

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Romans 14:23 KJV

²³And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.

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Romans 10:4 KJV

⁴For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

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