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 which they chose.

And you shall say unto Pharaoh, Thus says the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:

I have said, You are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.

But I said, How shall I put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a beautiful heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, You shall call me, My father; and shall not turn away from 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, you are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, you are the sons of the living God.

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

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

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

That is, They who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the descendants.

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

For you are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

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

Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the children of God: therefore the world knows us not, because it knew him not.

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

Ye shall not

You shall not shave around the sides of your heads, neither shall you disfigure the corners of your beard.

They shall not make any bald place 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 from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD.

Baldness has come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long will you cut yourself?

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