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Is self-harm a sin?

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I think so.

Idol worshippers cut themselves in 1 Kings 18:
28 So they shouted louder and slashed themselves with swords and spears, as was their custom, until their blood flowed.

A demonized man cut himself in Mark 5:
5 Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones.

As Christians, our body belongs to God, 1 Corinthians 6:
19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Self-harming would not glorify God.