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 fair, and took unto them wives, which they best liked among them all.

And tell Pharaoh, 'Thus sayeth the LORD: Israel is mine eldest son,

I have said, "Ye are gods, and ye are all the children of the most highest.

"'I have showed also, how I took thee up being but a child, and gave thee a pleasant land for thine heritage; yea, and a goodly Host of the Heathen: and how I commanded thee, that thou shouldest call me Father only, and not to shrink from me.

And though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, which can neither be measured nor told: yet in the place where it is said unto them, 'Ye be not my people': even there shall it be thus reported of them, 'They be the children of the living God.'

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to be the sons of God: in that they believed on his name:

and not for the people only: but that he should gather together in one the children of God which were scattered abroad.

The same spirit certifieth our spirit that we are the sons of God.

that is to say; They which are the children of the flesh, are not the children of God. But the children of promise are counted the seed.

and will be a father unto you, and ye shall be unto me sons and daughters," saith the Lord almighty.

For ye are all the sons of God, by the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

For it became him - for whom are all things, and by whom are all things - after that he had brought many sons unto glory, that he should make the Lord of their salvation perfect through suffering.

Behold what love the father hath showed on us, that we should be called the sons of God. For this cause the world knoweth you not; because it knoweth not 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 locks of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the tufts of thy beard.

They shall make them no baldness upon their heads or shave off the locks of their beards, nor make any marks in their flesh.

And in this land shall they die, old and young, and shall not be buried: no man shall beweep them, no man shall clip or shave himself for them.

there came certain men from Shechem, from Shiloh and Samaria, to the number of eighty, which had shaven their beards, rent their clothes, and were all heavy, bringing meat offerings, and incense in their hands, to offer it in the house of the LORD.

Baldness is come upon Gaza. Ashkelon with her other valleys shall keep her peace. How long wilt thou slay,

I would not, brethren, have you ignorant concerning them which are fallen asleep, that ye sorrow not as others do which have no hope.