Deuteronomy 14:1

New International Version

You are the children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead,

Cross References

Genesis 6:2

the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.

Genesis 6:4

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.

1 Kings 18:28

So they shouted louder and slashed themselves with swords and spears, as was their custom, until their blood flowed.

Isaiah 63:16

But you are our Father, though Abraham does not know us or Israel acknowledge us; you, Lord, are our Father, our Redeemer from of old is your name.

Jeremiah 16:6

“Both high and low will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned, and no one will cut themselves or shave their head for the dead.

Jeremiah 3:19

“I myself said, “ ‘How gladly would I treat you like my children and give you a pleasant land, the most beautiful inheritance of any nation.’ I thought you would call me ‘Father’ and not turn away from following me.

Jeremiah 31:9

They will come with weeping; they will pray as I bring them back. I will lead them beside streams of water on a level path where they will not stumble, because I am Israel’s father, and Ephraim is my firstborn son.

Jeremiah 41:5

eighty men who had shaved off their beards, torn their clothes and cut themselves came from Shechem, Shiloh and Samaria, bringing grain offerings and incense with them to the house of the Lord.

Jeremiah 47:5

Gaza will shave her head in mourning; Ashkelon will be silenced. You remnant on the plain, how long will you cut yourselves?

Hosea 1:10

“Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted. In the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘children of the living God.’

Leviticus 21:5

“ ‘Priests must not shave their heads or shave off the edges of their beards or cut their bodies.

John 1:12

Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—

John 11:52

and not only for that nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one.

Romans 8:16

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.

Romans 9:26

and, “In the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’ ”

Romans 9:4

the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption to sonship; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises.

Romans 9:8

In other words, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring.

2 Corinthians 6:18

And, “I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”

Galatians 3:26

So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith,

Deuteronomy 13:18

because you obey the Lord your God by keeping all his commands that I am giving you today and doing what is right in his eyes.

Deuteronomy 32:6

Is this the way you repay the Lord, you foolish and unwise people? Is he not your Father, your Creator, who made you and formed you?

1 Thessalonians 4:13

Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope.

Hebrews 2:10

In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered.

1 John 3:10

This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister.

1 John 5:2

This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands.