44 Bible Verses about cutting
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And during every night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was crying out and cutting himself with stones.
"No man {with crushed testicles} or [whose] {male organ is cut off} may come into the assembly of Yahweh.
Every branch that does not bear fruit in me, he removes it, and every [branch] that bears fruit, he prunes it in order that it may bear more fruit.
And you shall not make a slash in your body for a dead person, nor shall you make on yourselves a tattoo's mark; I [am] Yahweh.
You shall not round off the corner [hair] of your head, and you shall not trim the corner of your beard.
"You [are] children of Yahweh your God; [therefore] you must not gash yourself, and {you must not make your forehead bald} for [the] dead.
And those who are wicked will be cut off from the land, and those who are treacherous will be uprooted from it.
The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but a tongue of perversity will be cut off.
And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw [it] from you! For it is better for you that one of your limbs be destroyed than your whole body go into hell.
"And all [the] horns of [the] wicked I will cut off. [The] horns of [the] righteous will be lifted up."
So they called out with a loud voice, and they cut themselves with swords and with spears as was their custom, until the blood poured out over them.
Let his descendants be cut off. Let their name be blotted out in [the] next generation.
And if indeed it produces fruit in the coming [year], [so much the better], but if not, you can cut it down.'"
For the statutes of the peoples [are] vanity, for it [is] a tree cut down from [the] forest, [the] work of [the] hands of a craftsman with the tool.
And [as for] your birth, {on the day you were born} your umbilical cord was not cut, and {you were not thoroughly washed clean with water}, and {you were not thoroughly rubbed with salt}, and {you were not carefully wrapped in strips of cloth}.
So he said to the gardener, 'Behold, {for three years} I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and did not find [any]. Cut it down! Why should it even exhaust the soil?'
Then I grabbed my concubine and cut her into pieces, and I sent her throughout all the territory of Israel's inheritance; for they committed a shameful and disgraceful thing in Israel.
{for the Lord will execute his sentence thoroughly and decisively} upon the earth."
And unless those days had been shortened, {no human being would be saved}. But for the sake of the elect, those days will be shortened.
"Indeed, there is hope for a tree: if it is cut down, then it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not cease;
Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the ship's boat and let it fall away.
For the word of God [is] living and active and sharper than any double-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, both joints and marrow, and able to judge the reflections and thoughts of the heart.
Your hand will be lifted high over your enemies, and all your foes will be cut off.
And he took for him all these and cut them in pieces down the middle. And he put each piece opposite {the other}, but the birds he did not cut.
Every tree that does not produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
Then the king said, "Divide the living child into two, and give half to the one and half to the other."
for he shatters [the] doors of bronze, and cuts through [the] bars of iron.
When he entered his house he took a knife, and he grasped his concubine and cut her into twelve pieces; and he sent her throughout the whole territory of Israel.
Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his right ear. (Now the name of the slave was Malchus.)
And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better [for] you to enter into life crippled than, having two hands, to go into hell--into the unquenchable fire!
And behold, one of those with Jesus extended his hand [and] drew his sword, and striking the slave of the high priest, cut off his ear.
And he sent [orders] [and] had John beheaded in the prison,
For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are {natural branches} be grafted into their own olive tree?
For evildoers will be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh-- they will possess [the] land.
There is one who speaks rashly, like the thrust of a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
From Thematic Bible
Armies » Rendezvous of » Methods employed in effecting » Cutting
So he took a yoke of oxen and cut them into pieces and sent [them] throughout all the territory of Israel by the hand of the messengers, saying, "Whoever [is] not going out after Saul and after Samuel, so will it be done to his oxen." Then the fear of Yahweh fell on the people and they went out as one man.
Cutting » The flesh for the dead » Forbidden
Both the great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried, and they will not mourn for them, and no one will cut himself with a blade, and no one will shave himself for them.
" 'And they shall not shave bald patches on their head, and they shall not shave off the corner of their beard, and they shall not make a cut in their body.
"You [are] children of Yahweh your God; [therefore] you must not gash yourself, and {you must not make your forehead bald} for [the] dead.
And you shall not make a slash in your body for a dead person, nor shall you make on yourselves a tattoo's mark; I [am] Yahweh.
Topics on Cutting
Cutting Hair
Leviticus 19:27You shall not round off the corner [hair] of your head, and you shall not trim the corner of your beard.
Cutting Off Branches
Isaiah 18:5For before [the] harvest, {when the blossom is complete} and a blossom becomes ripening fruit, and one cuts off the shoots with pruning hooks, and one removes, tears away the tendrils.
Cutting Off Hands And Feet
Matthew 5:30And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw [it] from you! For it is better for you that one of your limbs be destroyed than your whole body go into hell.
Cutting Stones
Exodus 31:5and in stonecutting for setting and in cutting wood, for doing every [kind of] craftsmanship.