Today we will be dealing with 20 bible verses about tattoos and piercings. Is tattoo and piercing a sin? Well, you are about to find out through numerous bible verses that talked about tattoos and piercings. The scripture made us understand that we are created in the image and likeness of God. So our body has become a living place for God as stated in the book of 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
Humans naturally feel entitled to their bodies. We believe the body is ours so we can do what we choose to do with it without fear. However, the scripture said our body is the temple of the Lord. This means our house is a place of abode for God. If God dwells in us, is it right to still pierce our bodies or draw tattoos? According to the scripture, piercing the body is wrong and tattooing the body is not good. God doesn’t make mistakes with our creation. We are wonderfully and fearfully made. If there was any need for a mark on our body, God would have put it there while creating us. So why are we hell-bent on putting a mark that God has not put on our bodies?
We see so many people today with diverse tattoos. Besides the Biblical implications of having a tattoo, health-wise it is not nice. Many people have contracted different diseases through tattoos and piercings. Whatever God admonishes us not to do is for our good. Unsterilized piercing or tattoo equipment can transmit diseases that could be detrimental to our health. Little wonder, God frowned against the act of tattoos and piercings. To be better understand why God frowns at tattooing and piercing, we have compiled a list of 20 bible verses about tattoos and piercings.
1. Leviticus 19:28
You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.
2. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
3. 1 Timothy 2:9
Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire,
4. Deuteronomy 14:1
“You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead.
5. 1 Corinthians 6:19
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
7. Ezekiel 16:12
And I put a ring on your nose and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.
8. 1 Corinthians 3:17
If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.
9. 1 Corinthians 10:23
“All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up.
10. 1 Corinthians 6:13
“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
11. 1 Corinthians 3:16
Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
12. Exodus 21:6
Then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever.
13. 1 Corinthians 15:44
It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
14. 1 Corinthians 6:18
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
15. 1 Corinthians 3:16-17
Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.
16. Romans 14:23
But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.
17. Isaiah 3:18-23
In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets, the headbands, and the crescents; the pendants, the bracelets, and the scarves; the headdresses, the armlets, the sashes, the perfume boxes, and the amulets; the signet rings and nose rings; the festal robes, the mantles, the cloaks, and the handbags;.
18. 1 Samuel 16:7
But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”
19. 1 Kings 18:1-46
After many days the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the earth.” So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria. And Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly, and when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water.) And Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the valleys. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, and not lose some of the animals.”
20. 1 Peter 3:3-4
Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious.
