44 Bible Verses about cutting
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And always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones.
He who is wounded in the stones, or has his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the assembly of the LORD.
Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
"'You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am the LORD.
"'You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your heads, neither shall you clip off the edge of your beard.
You are the children of the LORD your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.
The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.
And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you.[note: idiom meaning to stop doing a sin] For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.
I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.
And they cried aloud, and cut themselves, as was their custom, with swords and spears, until the blood gushed out on them.
Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.
As for your birth, in the day you were born your navel was not cut, neither were you washed in water to cleanse you; you weren't salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
He said to the vine dresser, 'Look, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down. Why does it waste the soil?'
I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the territory of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed wickedness and disgrace in Israel.
for the Lord will fulfill his word completely and without delay upon the earth."
Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.
"For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.
For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries, and let all of your enemies be cut off.
He brought him all of these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he did not divide the birds.
Every tree that does not grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.
The king said, "Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other."
When he had come into his house, he took a knife, and took hold of his concubine and divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the territory of Israel.
Simon Peter therefore, having a sword, drew it, and struck the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.
If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off.[note: idiom meaning to stop doing a sin] It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire,
And suddenly, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck the servant of the high priest, and struck off his ear.
and he sent and beheaded John in the prison.
For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.
From Thematic Bible
Armies » Rendezvous of » Methods employed in effecting » Cutting
He took a yoke of oxen, and cut them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the borders of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, "Whoever doesn't come forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen." The dread of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out as one man.
Cutting » The flesh for the dead » Forbidden
Both great and 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;
"'They shall not shave their heads, neither shall they shave off the corners of their beards, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
You are the children of the LORD your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
"'You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am the LORD.
Topics on Cutting
Cutting Hair
Leviticus 19:27"'You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your heads, neither shall you clip off the edge of your beard.
Cutting Off Branches
Isaiah 18:5For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches.
Cutting Off Hands And Feet
Matthew 5:30And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you.[note: idiom meaning to stop doing a sin] For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.
Cutting Stones
Exodus 31:5and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all manner of workmanship.