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What does
the New Testament say about men piercing their ears?
What does the New Testament say about men piercing their ears?
In the Old Testament, when a man had a hole pierced
through his ear, it was because he was making himself a life-long slave to a master.
Exodus 21:5,6 says, "And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife,
and my children; I will not go out free: Then his master shall bring him unto the judges;
he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his
ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever."
The New
Testament, in I Corinthians 7:21-23 says, "Art thou called being a servant? care not
for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather. For he that is called in the Lord,
being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is
Christ's servant. YE ARE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE; BE NOT YE THE SERVANTS OF MEN."
That verse
answers that Old Testament situation. No man should ever get his ear pierced today,
because we are not to bind ourselves as life-slaves to any man. As Christians, Jesus has
bought us with His precious blood — we are His forever!
Men who
get their ears pierced today are just showing that they are slaves to this old world and
its fads. I John 2:15 says, "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."
It is the
same for women today. Women are not to make themselves life-slaves to anyone. And when it
comes to wearing jewelry, it is always to be done in moderation. I Peter 3:1-4 says,
"Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the
word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; While they
behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. Whose adorning let it not be that
outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of
apparel; But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even
the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great
price."
When a woman is
willing to cut her flesh for the sole purpose of hanging jewelry in it, is that not an
indication that jewelry has come to mean too much to her? Her body, if she is a
Christian, is the temple of the Holy Spirit. And if she cuts her body in one place
to hang jewelry, what is wrong with cutting some place else to hang more jewelry? More
holes in the ear? A hole in the nose? A hole in the eyebrow? A hole below the lip? A hole
in the tongue? A hole in the belly button? Remember what James 2:10 tells us? "For
whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend IN ONE POINT, he IS GUILTY OF
ALL." No woman ever got the idea to pierce her body to wear jewelry from the Bible.
Christian women got that idea from watching the women of the world. I John 2:15 applies
again, "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."
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