Tattoo In The Bible Old Testament. Vs 21 It is good than not to get tattoos or to wear overly revealing clothes not anything whereby thy brother stumbleth or is offended or is made weak. That is part of what is called the Old Testament Law or the Old Covenant or the Law of Moses which is essentially the hundreds of rules and regulations God sent down through Moses for the Hebrews to live by after they were freed from slavery in Egypt as recorded in the books of Exodus.
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead nor print any marks upon you. Many Christians with tattoos will fancy a Psalm or lapse from the Bible tattooed on specific body although some year will wade have tattoos from the Bible despite. This begs the question.
Getting a tattoo or piercing is considered defiling the temple of God.
However since the demand for tattoos has increased many Christians are looking for the yes or no to tattoos. I am the Lord Would not this passage condemn having a tattoo One must be very careful about trying to use Old Testament passages as proof-texts for what one may or may not practice in the Christian age. Body piercing and tattooing were forbidden in the Old Testament because they were associated with pagan religious practices. This begs the question.