You must not make any cuts in your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;

Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.

Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you. Watch out for those dogs, those workers of evil, those mutilators of the flesh! For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh— though I myself could have such confidence. If anyone else thinks he has grounds for confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; . . .

Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; your walls are ever before Me.

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Because of the multiplication of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold.

They must not shave their heads or let their hair grow long, but must carefully trim their hair.

And He has a name written on His robe and on His thigh: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.