Deuteronomy 14:1

Easy To Read Version

“You are the children of the Lord your God. When someone dies, you must not cut yourselves or shave your heads to show your sadness.

Cross References

1 Kings 18:28

So the prophets prayed louder. They cut themselves with swords and spears. (This was the way they worshiped.) They cut themselves until the blood flowed over them.

Isaiah 63:16

Look! You are our father!\par Abraham doesn’t know us.\par Israel (Jacob) does not recognize us.\par Lord, you are our father!\par You are the One who has always saved us!\par

Jeremiah 16:6

“Important people and common people will die in the land of Judah. No person will bury those people or cry for them. No person will cut himself or shave his head to show sorrow for those people.

Jeremiah 3:19

“I, the Lord, said to myself,\par ‘I want to treat you like my own children.\par I want to give you a pleasant land,\par a land more beautiful\par than any other nation.’\par I thought that you would call me ‘Father.’\par I thought that you would always follow me.\par

Jeremiah 31:9

Those people will come back crying.\par But I will lead them and comfort them.\par I will lead those people by streams of water.\par I will lead them on an easy road,\par so that they will not stumble.\par I will lead them in that way\par because I am Israel’s father.\par And Ephraim {\cf2\super [250]} is my firstborn son.\par

Jeremiah 47:5

The people from Gaza will be sad\par and shave their heads.\par The people from Ashkelon will be silenced.\par Survivors from the valley,\par how long will you cut yourselves? {\cf2\super [374]} \par

Hosea 1:10

“\{In the future,\} the number of the people of Israel will be like the sand of the sea. You can’t measure the sand or count it. Then it will happen that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ it will be said to them, ‘You are the children of the living God.’

Leviticus 21:5

“Priests must not shave their heads bald. Priests must not shave off the edges of their beards. Priests must not make any cuts in their bodies.

John 1:12

Some people did accept him. They believed in him. He gave something to those people who believed. He gave them the right to become children of God.

John 11:52

Yes, Jesus would die for the Jewish people. But Jesus would also die for God’s other children that were scattered \{in all the world\}. He would die to bring them all together and make them one people.

Romans 8:16

And the Spirit himself joins with our spirits to say we are God’s children.

Romans 9:26

“And in the same place that God said,\par ‘You are not my people’—\par in that place they will be called\par sons of the living God.”\par \i (Hosea 1:10)\i0 \par

Romans 9:4

They are the people of Israel. {\cf2\super [73]} Those people (the Jews) are God’s chosen children. Those people have the glory of God and the agreements that God made between himself and his people. God gave them the law \{of Moses\} and the \{temple\} worship. And God gave his promises to those people (the Jews).

Romans 9:8

This means that not all of Abraham’s descendants are God’s true children. Abraham’s true children are those people that become God’s children because of the promise God made to Abraham.

2 Corinthians 6:18

“I will be your father,\par and you will be my sons and daughters,\par says the Lord All-Powerful.”\par \i (2 Samuel 7:8,14)\i0 \par

Deuteronomy 13:18

This will happen if you listen to the Lord your God—if you obey all his commands that I give you today. You must do the things that the Lord your God says are right.

Deuteronomy 32:6

Is that the way you should pay back the Lord {for all that he did for you? No!} You are stupid, foolish people. The Lord is your Father. He made you. He is your Creator. He supports you.

1 Thessalonians 4:13

Brothers and sisters, we want you to know about those people who have died. We don’t want you to be sad like other people—people who have no hope.

Hebrews 2:10

God is the One who made all things. And all things are for his glory. God wanted to have many people to be his children and share his glory. So God did what he needed to do. He made perfect the One (Jesus) who leads those people to salvation. God made Jesus \{a\} perfect \{Savior\} through Jesus’ suffering.

1 John 3:10

So we can see who God’s children are. Also, we can know who the children of the devil are. The people who don’t do what is right are not children of God. And the person who does not love his brothers and sisters \{in Christ\} is not a child of God.

1 John 5:2

All mercy, peace, and love be yours.