What Does the Bible Say About Each Hair?

1 Timothy 2:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire,

1 Corinthians 11:15 ESV / 7 helpful votes

But if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her hair is given to her for a covering.

1 Peter 3:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—

1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you. But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head, but every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven. ...

1 Corinthians 11:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace for him,

1 Corinthians 11:14-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace for him, but if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her hair is given to her for a covering.

1 Corinthians 11:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For if a wife will not cover her head, then she should cut her hair short. But since it is disgraceful for a wife to cut off her hair or shave her head, let her cover her head.

Luke 12:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.

Deuteronomy 22:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“A woman shall not wear a man's garment, nor shall a man put on a woman's cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God.

1 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.

1 Timothy 2:9-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works.

1 Corinthians 11:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

If anyone is inclined to be contentious, we have no such practice, nor do the churches of God.

Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. ...

Matthew 10:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.

2 Kings 9:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. And she painted her eyes and adorned her head and looked out of the window.

Numbers 6:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“All the days of his vow of separation, no razor shall touch his head. Until the time is completed for which he separates himself to the Lord, he shall be holy. He shall let the locks of hair of his head grow long.

Leviticus 19:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.

Revelation 9:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Their hair like women's hair, and their teeth like lions' teeth;

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 11:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a wife to pray to God with her head uncovered?

1 Corinthians 11:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Romans 7:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”

Acts 27:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore I urge you to take some food. For it will give you strength, for not a hair is to perish from the head of any of you.”

John 12:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

John 3:5-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Luke 21:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But not a hair of your head will perish.

Luke 7:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment.

Malachi 3:8-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In your tithes and contributions. You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you. Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.

Ezekiel 44:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

They shall not shave their heads or let their locks grow long; they shall surely trim the hair of their heads.

Ezekiel 23:40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

They even sent for men to come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and behold, they came. For them you bathed yourself, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments.

Ezekiel 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“And you, O son of man, take a sharp sword. Use it as a barber's razor and pass it over your head and your beard. Then take balances for weighing and divide the hair.

Jeremiah 4:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And you, O desolate one, what do you mean that you dress in scarlet, that you adorn yourself with ornaments of gold, that you enlarge your eyes with paint? In vain you beautify yourself. Your lovers despise you; they seek your life.

Isaiah 50:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I gave my back to those who strike, and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard; I hid not my face from disgrace and spitting.

Isaiah 3:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Instead of perfume there will be rottenness; and instead of a belt, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a rich robe, a skirt of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.

Song of Solomon 4:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Your lips are like a scarlet thread, and your mouth is lovely. Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil.

Proverbs 31:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

Psalm 40:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For evils have encompassed me beyond number; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head; my heart fails me.

Ezra 9:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

As soon as I heard this, I tore my garment and my cloak and pulled hair from my head and beard and sat appalled.

2 Samuel 14:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And when he cut the hair of his head (for at the end of every year he used to cut it; when it was heavy on him, he cut it), he weighed the hair of his head, two hundred shekels by the king's weight.

2 Samuel 14:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then she said, “Please let the king invoke the Lord your God, that the avenger of blood kill no more, and my son be not destroyed.” He said, “As the Lord lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground.”

2 Samuel 10:4-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So Hanun took David's servants and shaved off half the beard of each and cut off their garments in the middle, at their hips, and sent them away. When it was told David, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, “Remain at Jericho until your beards have grown and then return.”

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

1 Samuel 14:45 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then the people said to Saul, “Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As the Lord lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground, for he has worked with God this day.” So the people ransomed Jonathan, so that he did not die.

Numbers 31:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

Numbers 6:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the Nazirite shall shave his consecrated head at the entrance of the tent of meeting and shall take the hair from his consecrated head and put it on the fire that is under the sacrifice of the peace offering.

Leviticus 21:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

They shall not make bald patches on their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuts on their body.

Leviticus 19:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You shall not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard.

50 Bible Verses about Each Hair

1 Timothy 2:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 11:15 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 3:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 11:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 11:14-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 11:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 12:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 22:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 2:9-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 11:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 10:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Kings 9:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Numbers 6:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 19:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 9:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 11:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 11:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 7:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 27:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 12:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:5-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 21:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 7:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Malachi 3:8-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 44:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 23:40 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 4:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 50:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 3:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Song of Solomon 4:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 31:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 40:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezra 9:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Samuel 14:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Samuel 14:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Samuel 10:4-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Samuel 14:45 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Numbers 31:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Numbers 6:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 21:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 19:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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