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 took themselves wives of all that they chose.

And thou shalt say to Pharaoh, Thus saith Jehovah: Israel is my son, my firstborn.

I have said, Ye are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High;

And as for me, I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee the pleasant land, the goodly inheritance of the hosts of the nations? And I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt 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 or 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, Sons of the living God.

but as many as received him, to them gave he the right to be children of God, to those that believe on his name;

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

The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are children of God.

That is, they that are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned as seed.

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

for ye are all God's sons by faith in Christ Jesus.

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

See what love the Father has given to us, that we should be called the children of God. For this reason the world knows us not, because it knew him not.

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

Ye shall not

ye shall not shave the corners of your head round, neither shalt thou mutilate the corners of thy beard.

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

Both great and small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried; and none shall lament for them, or cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them.

that there came men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, eighty men, having their beards shaven and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves; with oblations and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of Jehovah.

Baldness is come upon Gazah; Ashkelon is cut off, the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?

But we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them that are fallen asleep, to the end that ye be not grieved even as also the rest who have no hope.