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What does the Bible say about shaving the body?
11 verses about shaving the body, ranked by the votes of OpenBible.info readers, with the King James text.
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Bible verses about shaving the body
- Leviticus 19:27 — Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. 9 votes
- 1 Corinthians 6:19 — 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? 7 votes
- Leviticus 19:28 — Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD. 6 votes
- 1 Corinthians 11:5 — But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven. 6 votes
- 1 Corinthians 11:1 — Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. 5 votes
- Isaiah 7:20 — In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard. 4 votes
- 1 Corinthians 11:2 — Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you. 4 votes
- 1 Corinthians 11:14 — Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? 4 votes
- James 4:17 — Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. 4 votes
- Deuteronomy 14:1 — Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 3 votes
- 1 John 1:9 — If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 3 votes
Where these verses are
1 Corinthians (5), Leviticus (2), Deuteronomy (1), Isaiah (1), James (1), 1 John (1)
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