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 that the daughters of men were fair, and they took for themselves wives of all whom they chose.

And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, The LORD hath said thus: Israel is my son, even my firstborn.

I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are sons of the most High.

But I said, How shall I place thee as sons and give thee the desirable land, the heritage that the hosts of Gentiles desire? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father, and shalt not turn away from following me.

With all this, the number of the sons 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, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become sons of God, even to them that believe on his name,

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

For the same Spirit bears witness unto our spirit that we are sons of God,

That is, Those who are sons of the flesh, these are not the sons of God; but those who are sons of the promise are counted in the generation.

and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

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

For it was expedient that he, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, preparing to bring forth many sons in his glory, should perfect the author of their saving health through sufferings.

Behold, what charity the Father has given us, that we should be called the sons of God; therefore the world does not know us, because it does not know him.

In this we know that we love the sons of God, when we love God and keep 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 the great and the 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 certain men of Shechem, of Shiloh, and of Samaria, eighty men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD.

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

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as the others who have no hope.