Numbers 6:6
‘All the time that he separates himself to the Lord he shall not go near a dead body.
Leviticus 19:28
You shall not make any cuts on your body [in mourning] for the dead, nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves; I am the Lord.
Leviticus 21:1-3
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them:
‘No one shall defile himself [that is, become ceremonially unclean] for the dead among his people [by touching a corpse or assisting in preparing it for burial],
Leviticus 21:11
nor shall he approach any dead person, nor defile himself [by doing so, even] for his father or for his mother;
Numbers 19:11-22
‘The one who touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean for seven days.
Jeremiah 16:5-6
For thus says the Lord, “Do not enter a house of mourning, nor go to lament (express grief) or bemoan [the dead], for I have taken My peace away from this people,” says the Lord, “even My lovingkindness and compassion.
Ezekiel 24:16-18
“Son of man, listen carefully, I am about to take away from you the desire of your eyes [your wife] with a single stroke. Yet you shall not mourn and you shall not weep, and your tears shall not flow.
Matthew 8:21-22
Another of the
Luke 9:59-60
He said to another,
2 Corinthians 5:16
So from now on we regard no one from a human point of view [according to worldly standards and values]. Though we have known Christ from a human point of view, now we no longer know Him in this way.