Piercing

• Mourning

Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged 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.

There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.

For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.

And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.

Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

• Love

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.

Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him.

(Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.

The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him.