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

the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were good. And they took wives for themselves from all whom they chose.

And you shall say to Pharaoh, Thus says the Lord: Israel is My son, My first-born.

I have said, You are gods; and all of you sons of the Most High.

But I said, How shall I put you among the sons, and give you a pleasant land, a beautiful inheritance among 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 sons of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered. And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, You are not My people, there it shall be said to them, You are the sons of the living God.

But as many as received Him, He gave to them authority to become the children of God, to those who believe on His name,

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

The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God.

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

and I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.

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

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

Behold what manner of love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God. Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

By this we know that we love the children of God, whenever we love God and keep His commandments.

Ye shall not

You shall not round the side of your head, nor mar the edge of your beard.

They shall not make baldness on their head, nor shall they shave the corner of their beard, nor make any cutting in their flesh.

Both the great and the small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried, nor shall men mourn for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them.

some men from Shechem came from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, with their beards shaved, and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of Jehovah.

Baldness has come on Gaza. Ashkelon is cut off with the rest of their valley. How long will you cut yourself?

But I would not have you ignorant, brothers, concerning those who are asleep, that you be not grieved, even as others who have no hope.