I like the way Joe Thorn (from Tattoos and Christians Doctrine and Devotion) explains this verse, as the single prohibition in Scripture against tattoos. Then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from off the good land that he has given to you.” Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel. A verse that’s often quoted about tattoos is Leviticus 1928: ‘Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. But just as all the good things that the Lord your God promised concerning you have been fulfilled for you, so the Lord will bring upon you all the evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land that the Lord your God has given you, if you transgress the covenant of the Lord your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them. All have come to pass for you not one of them has failed. “And now I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you, that not one word has failed of all the good things that the Lord your God promised concerning you. Know for certain that the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations before you, but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground that the Lord your God has given you. Then he said to me, “Son of man, lift up your eyes now toward the north.” So I lifted up my eyes toward the north, and behold, north of the altar gate, in the entrance, was this image of jealousy.ĮSV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, like the vision that I saw in the valley. He put out the form of a hand and took me by a lock of my head, and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and brought me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the gateway of the inner court that faces north, where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy. Below what appeared to be his waist was fire, and above his waist was something like the appearance of brightness, like gleaming metal. Then I looked, and behold, a form that had the appearance of a man. In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, with the elders of Judah sitting before me, the hand of the Lord God fell upon me there. ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

A bible verse about tattoos