What Does the Bible Say About Ear Piercing?

Exodus 21:6 ESV / 180 helpful votes

Then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever.

Genesis 35:4 ESV / 165 helpful votes

So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they had, and the rings that were in their ears. Jacob hid them under the terebinth tree that was near Shechem.

Deuteronomy 15:17 ESV / 135 helpful votes

Then you shall take an awl, and put it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your slave forever. And to your female slave you shall do the same.

Ezekiel 16:12 ESV / 120 helpful votes

And I put a ring on your nose and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.

Hosea 2:13 ESV / 112 helpful votes

And I will punish her for the feast days of the Baals when she burned offerings to them and adorned herself with her ring and jewelry, and went after her lovers and forgot me, declares the Lord.

Proverbs 25:12 ESV / 112 helpful votes

Like a gold ring or an ornament of gold is a wise reprover to a listening ear.

1 Timothy 2:9 ESV / 93 helpful votes

Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire,

Exodus 32:2-3 ESV / 77 helpful votes

So Aaron said to them, “Take off the rings of gold that are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.” So all the people took off the rings of gold that were in their ears and brought them to Aaron.

Leviticus 19:28 ESV / 65 helpful votes

You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.

Isaiah 3:20 ESV / 44 helpful votes

The headdresses, the armlets, the sashes, the perfume boxes, and the amulets;

Deuteronomy 15:16-17 ESV / 43 helpful votes

But if he says to you, ‘I will not go out from you,’ because he loves you and your household, since he is well-off with you, then you shall take an awl, and put it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your slave forever. And to your female slave you shall do the same.

Exodus 21:5-6 ESV / 35 helpful votes

But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’ then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever.

Isaiah 3:16-23 ESV / 32 helpful votes

The Lord said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks, glancing wantonly with their eyes, mincing along as they go, tinkling with their feet, therefore the Lord will strike with a scab the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will lay bare their secret parts. In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets, the headbands, and the crescents; the pendants, the bracelets, and the scarves; the headdresses, the armlets, the sashes, the perfume boxes, and the amulets; ...

Isaiah 3:18-23 ESV / 26 helpful votes

In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets, the headbands, and the crescents; the pendants, the bracelets, and the scarves; the headdresses, the armlets, the sashes, the perfume boxes, and the amulets; the signet rings and nose rings; the festal robes, the mantles, the cloaks, and the handbags; ...

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

1 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.

Isaiah 3:16-21 ESV / 20 helpful votes

The Lord said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks, glancing wantonly with their eyes, mincing along as they go, tinkling with their feet, therefore the Lord will strike with a scab the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will lay bare their secret parts. In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets, the headbands, and the crescents; the pendants, the bracelets, and the scarves; the headdresses, the armlets, the sashes, the perfume boxes, and the amulets; ...

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

1 Peter 3:3 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—

Colossians 3:20 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

Ezekiel 16:11-12 ESV / 12 helpful votes

And I adorned you with ornaments and put bracelets on your wrists and a chain on your neck. And I put a ring on your nose and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.

1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?

Deuteronomy 14:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes

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

Judges 8:24 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And Gideon said to them, “Let me make a request of you: every one of you give me the earrings from his spoil.” (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)

Ephesians 4:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes

One God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

John 3:1-36 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ...

1 Kings 18:28 ESV / 6 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 8:1-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up. If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. But if anyone loves God, he is known by God. Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.” For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”— ...

Isaiah 44:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

This one will say, ‘I am the Lord's,’ another will call on the name of Jacob, and another will write on his hand, ‘The Lord's,’ and name himself by the name of Israel.”

Numbers 31:50 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And we have brought the Lord's offering, what each man found, articles of gold, armlets and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and beads, to make atonement for ourselves before the Lord.”

Genesis 24:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes

When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a half shekel, and two bracelets for her arms weighing ten gold shekels,

Revelation 19:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written that no one knows but himself.

Revelation 14:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then I looked, and behold, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.

Revelation 13:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.

Revelation 9:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk,

Romans 14:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.

Song of Solomon 1:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.

Song of Solomon 1:10-11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels. We will make for you ornaments of gold, studded with silver.

Exodus 22:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“You shall be consecrated to me. Therefore you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Genesis 35:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you and purify yourselves and change your garments.

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...

Matthew 24:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.

Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. ...

44 Bible Verses about Ear Piercing

Exodus 21:6 ESV / 180 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 35:4 ESV / 165 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 15:17 ESV / 135 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 16:12 ESV / 120 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hosea 2:13 ESV / 112 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 25:12 ESV / 112 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 2:9 ESV / 93 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 32:2-3 ESV / 77 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 19:28 ESV / 65 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 3:20 ESV / 44 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 15:16-17 ESV / 43 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 21:5-6 ESV / 35 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 3:16-23 ESV / 32 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 3:18-23 ESV / 26 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 3:16-21 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 3:3 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 3:20 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 16:11-12 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 14:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Judges 8:24 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 4:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:1-36 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Kings 18:28 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 8:1-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 44:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Numbers 31:50 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 24:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 19:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 14:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 13:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 9:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 14:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Song of Solomon 1:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Song of Solomon 1:10-11 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 22:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 35:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 24:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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