44 Bible Verses about cutting
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And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
He that is a eunuch by crushing or mutilation shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
Every branch in me that bears not fruit he takes away: and every branch that bears fruit, he prunes it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
You shall not shave around the sides of your heads, neither shall you disfigure the corners of your beard.
You are the children of the LORD your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any bald place on your foreheads for the dead.
But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
The mouth of the just brings forth wisdom: but the perverse tongue shall be cut out.
And if your right hand causes you to offend, cut it off, and cast it from you: for it is better for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should be cast into hell.
All the strength of the wicked also will I cut off; but the strength of the righteous shall be exalted.
For surely there is a future hope; and your expectation shall not be cut off.
And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lances, till the blood gushed out upon them.
Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
And if it bears fruit, well: and if not, then after that you shall cut it down.
For the customs of the people are vain: for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
And as for your nativity, in the day you were born your navel was not cut, neither were you washed in water to cleanse you; you were not rubbed with salt at all, nor swaddled at all.
Then said he unto the vinedresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbers it the ground?
And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and abomination in Israel.
For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender shoots thereof will not cease.
For the word of God is living, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Your hand shall be lifted up over your adversaries, and all your enemies shall be cut off.
And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.
Every tree that brings not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the territory of Israel.
Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and struck the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.
And if your hand offend you, cut it off: it is better for you to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
And, behold, one of them who was with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.
For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, who are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
You did run well; who did hinder you that you should not obey the truth?
There is one that speaks like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise brings health.
From Thematic Bible
Armies » Rendezvous of » Methods employed in effecting » Cutting
And he took a yoke of oxen, and cut them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the territory of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever comes not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.
Cutting » The flesh for the dead » Forbidden
Both the great and the 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:
They shall not make any bald place upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
You are the children of the LORD your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any bald place on your foreheads for the dead.
You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
Topics on Cutting
Cutting Hair
Leviticus 19:27You shall not shave around the sides of your heads, neither shall you disfigure the corners of your beard.
Cutting Off Branches
Isaiah 18:5For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.
Cutting Off Hands And Feet
Matthew 5:30And if your right hand causes you to offend, cut it off, and cast it from you: for it is better for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should be cast into hell.
Cutting Stones
Exodus 31:5And in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.