Abstract
God’s Word highlights specific actions and behaviors that are detestable to Him, providing clear guidance for righteous living. This list draws from Scripture to address issues such as vanity, idolatry, immorality, and improper worship practices. Each reference underscores the importance of obedience, humility, and spiritual integrity in maintaining a relationship with God.
Please take all of these verses within their proper context, as in literal context, so in historical context.
1. Prohibition Against Shaving Corners of Head or Beard
27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
The application could be today made to the worldly haircut.
2. Prohibition Against Tattoos or Markings
28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
3. Adornment with Jewelry Condemned
16 Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
17 Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.
18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,
19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
21 The rings, and nose jewels,
22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,
23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
4. Condemnation of Homosexuality and Unnatural Affections
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
5. Condemnation of Vanity and Painting the Face
30 And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.
6. Punishment for Wearing Strange Apparel
8 And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD’S sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king’s children, and all such as are clothed with strange apparel.
7. Encouragement of Modesty Over Outward Adornment
3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
8. Shamefulness of Men Having Long Hair
14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
9. Requirement for Women to Cover Their Heads in Worship
1 Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
2 Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head.
5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.
6 For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.
7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
8 For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.
9 Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
10 For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.
11 Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.
12 For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.
13 Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?
10. Prohibition Against Cross-Dressing
5 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
11. Prohibition Against Using Sacred Perfume for Personal Use
37 And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for the LORD.
38 Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people.
12. Friendship with the World is Enmity with God
4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
13. Covering Sin
13 He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
14. Prohibition Against Stealing
15 Thou shalt not steal.
15. Prohibition Against Bearing False Witness
16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
16. Condemnation of Drunkenness and Strong Drink
1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
6 Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
17. Love Not the World
15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
18. Condemnation of Adultery and Lustful Thoughts
27 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
29 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
30 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut if off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
19. Warning Against Lusting After Strange Woman
25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.