Deuteronomy 14:1

As God's children, Israel must not gash themselves or shave their foreheads in mourning like the pagans. Their identity shapes their conduct, even in grief.

Cross-references · 23

• Gal 3:26For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.
• Rom 9:8That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as heirs.
• Lev 21:5“‘They shall not shave their heads or shave off the corners of their beards or make any cuttings in their flesh.
• Rom 9:26“It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ There they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”
• Hos 1:10Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’
• John 1:12But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:
• Jer 16:6Both great and small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them;
• Rom 8:16The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;
• Heb 2:10For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
• Jer 41:5men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to Yahweh’s house.
• 1 Jn 3:1–2See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.
• 2 Cor 6:18I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”
• John 11:52and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
• Jer 3:19“But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’
• Lev 19:27–28“‘You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your head or clip off the edge of your beard.
• Ps 82:6–7I said, “You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High.
• 1 Jn 3:10In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.
• Gen 6:2God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.
• Gen 6:4The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters and had children with them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
• 1 Jn 5:2By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.
• Jer 47:5Baldness has come on Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nothing, the remnant of their valley: how long will you cut yourself?
• Exod 4:22–23You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,
• 1 Th 4:13But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

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