Deuteronomy 14:1

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Summary

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

The children

Ye shall not

Bible References

The children

that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all that they chose.

And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith Jehovah, Israel is my son, my first-born:

I said, Ye are gods, And all of you sons of the Most High.

But I said, How I will put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of the nations! and I said, Ye shall call me My Father, and shall not turn away from following me.

Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass that, in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.

But as many as received him, to them gave he the right to become children of God, even to them that believe on his name:

and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God that are scattered abroad.

The Spirit himself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are children of God:

That is, it is not the children of the flesh that are children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for a seed.

And will be to you a Father, And ye shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

For ye are all sons of God, through faith, in Christ Jesus.

For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and'such we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

Hereby we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments.

Ye shall not

Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.

They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.

Both great and small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them;

that there came men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with meal-offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to the house of Jehovah.

Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nought, the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?

But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that fall asleep; that ye sorrow not, even as the rest, who have no hope.