44 Bible Verses about cutting

Night and day he was constantly screaming and shrieking among the tombs and on the mountains, and cutting himself with [sharp] stones.

“He who has been castrated by having his testicles crushed or his male organ cut off shall not enter the congregation of the Lord.

Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that continues to bear fruit, He [repeatedly] prunes, so that it will bear more fruit [even richer and finer fruit].

then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity [for her].

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.

You shall not trim and round off the side-growth of [the hair on] your heads, nor mar the edges of your beard.

“You are the sons of the Lord your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave your forehead for the sake of the dead,

But the wicked will be cut off from the land
And the treacherous shall be [forcibly] uprooted and removed from it.

The mouth of the righteous flows with [skillful and godly] wisdom,
But the perverted tongue will be cut out.

If your right hand makes you stumble and leads you to sin, cut it off and throw it away [that is, remove yourself from the source of temptation]; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.

All the horns of the wicked He will cut off,
But the horns of the righteous will be lifted up.

Surely there is a future [and a reward],
And your hope and expectation will not be cut off.

So they cried out with a loud voice [to get Baal’s attention] and cut themselves with swords and lances in accordance with their custom, until the blood flowed out on them.

Let his descendants be cut off,
And in the following generation let their name be blotted out.

and if it bears fruit after this, fine; but if not, cut it down.’”

For the customs and decrees of the peoples are [mere] delusion [exercises in futility];
It is only wood which one cuts from the forest [to make a god],
The work of the hands of the craftsman with the axe or cutting tool.

For they will wither quickly like the grass,
And fade like the green herb.

And as for your birth, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing, nor were you rubbed with salt or even wrapped in cloths.

so he said to the vineyard-keeper, ‘For three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and have found none. Cut it down! Why does it even use up the ground [depleting the soil and blocking the sunlight]?’

So I took my concubine and cut her [corpse] in pieces and sent her [body parts] throughout the land of the inheritance of Israel; for the men of Gibeah have committed a lewd and disgraceful act in Israel.

For the Lord will execute His word upon the earth [He will conclude His dealings with mankind] completely and without delay.”

And if those days [of tribulation] had not been cut short, no human life would be saved; but for the sake of the elect (God’s chosen ones) those days will be shortened.

The Lord is righteous;
He has cut in two the [thick] cords of the wicked [which enslaved the people of Israel].

“For there is hope for a tree,
If it is cut down, that it will sprout again,
And that the shoots of it will not cease nor fail, [but there is no such hope for man].

Then the soldiers cut away the ropes that held the skiff and let it fall and drift away.

For the word of God is living and active and full of power [making it operative, energizing, and effective]. It is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating as far as the division of the soul and spirit [the completeness of a person], and of both joints and marrow [the deepest parts of our nature], exposing and judging the very thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Your hand will be lifted up against your adversaries,
And all your enemies shall be cut off and destroyed.

So Abram brought all these to Him and cut them down the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he did not cut the birds.

Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

Then the king said, “Cut the living child in two, and give half to the one [woman] and half to the other.”

For He has shattered the gates of bronze
And cut the bars of iron apart.

When he arrived at his house, he took a knife, and taking hold of his [dead] concubine, he cut her [corpse] limb by limb into twelve pieces, and sent her [body parts] throughout all the territory of Israel.

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the high priest’s servant, cutting off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus.

If your hand causes you to stumble and sin, cut it off [that is, remove yourself from the source of temptation]! It is better for you to enter life crippled, than to have two hands and go into hell, into the unquenchable fire,

And one of those who were with Jesus reached out and drew his sword, and struck [Malchus] the slave of the high priest and cut off his ear.

He sent and had John beheaded in the prison.

For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and against nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much easier will it be to graft these who are the natural branches back into [the original parent stock of] their own olive tree?

For those who do evil will be cut off,
But those who wait for the Lord, they will inherit the land.

You were running [the race] well; who has interfered and prevented you from obeying the truth?

There is one who speaks rashly like the thrusts of a sword,
But the tongue of the wise brings healing.