What does the Bible say about cutting hair?

16 verses about cutting hair, ranked by the votes of OpenBible.info readers, with the King James text.

9 booksMost in 1 Corinthians

Bible verses about cutting hair

Leviticus 19:27 — Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. 6 votes
Ezekiel 44:20 — Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads. 6 votes
1 Corinthians 11:6 — 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. 6 votes
Leviticus 19:28 — Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD. 4 votes
Leviticus 21:5 — They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh. 4 votes
Numbers 6:5 — All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto the LORD, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow. 4 votes
1 Corinthians 11:13 — Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered? 4 votes
1 Corinthians 11:14 — Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? 4 votes
1 Timothy 2:9 — In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; 3 votes
Jeremiah 7:29 — Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath. 2 votes
Micah 1:16 — Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee. 2 votes
Matthew 6:1 — Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. 2 votes
Matthew 10:30 — But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. 2 votes
Acts 18:18 — And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow. 2 votes
1 Corinthians 6:19 — 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? 2 votes
1 Corinthians 11:15 — But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering. 2 votes

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1 Corinthians (5), Leviticus (3), Matthew (2), Numbers (1), Jeremiah (1), Ezekiel (1), Micah (1), Acts (1), 1 Timothy (1)

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