Deuteronomy 14:1

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

“You are the sons of the Lord your God; you shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead.

Cross References

Genesis 6:2

the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took to wife such of them as they chose.

Genesis 6:4

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.

1 Kings 18:28

And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their custom with swords and lances, until the blood gushed out upon them.

Isaiah 63:16

For thou art our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us; thou, O Lord, art our Father, our Redeemer from of old is thy name.

Jeremiah 16:6

Both great and small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, and no one shall lament for them or cut himself or make himself bald for them.

Jeremiah 3:19

“ ‘I thought how I would set you among my sons, and give you a pleasant land, a heritage most beauteous of all nations. And I thought you would call me, My Father, and would not turn from following me.

Jeremiah 31:9

With weeping they shall come, and with consolations I will lead them back, I will make them walk by brooks of water, in a straight path in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born.

Jeremiah 41:5

eighty men arrived from Shechem and Shiloh and Samaria, with their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and their bodies gashed, bringing cereal offerings and incense to present at the temple of the Lord.

Jeremiah 47:5

Baldness has come upon Gaza, Ashkelon has perished. O remnant of the Anakim, how long will you gash yourselves?

Hosea 1:10

Yet the number of the people of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which can be neither measured nor numbered; and in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, “Sons of the living God.”

Leviticus 21:5

They shall not make tonsures upon their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.

John 1:12

But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God;

John 11:52

and not for the nation only, but to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

Romans 8:16

it is the Spirit himself bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God,

Romans 9:26

“And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’ ”

Romans 9:4

They are Israelites, and to them belong the sonship, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises;

Romans 9:8

This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are reckoned as descendants.

2 Corinthians 6:18

and I will be a father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”

Galatians 3:26

for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.

Deuteronomy 13:18

if you obey the voice of the Lord your God, keeping all his commandments which I command you this day, and doing what is right in the sight of the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 32:6

Do you thus requite the Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?

1 Thessalonians 4:13

But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.

Hebrews 2:10

For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through suffering.

1 John 3:10

By this it may be seen who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not do right is not of God, nor he who does not love his brother.

1 John 5:2

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.