What does the Bible say about hair length?

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

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Bible verses about hair length

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 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. 4 votes
Deuteronomy 22:5 — The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God. 3 votes
Ezekiel 44:20 — Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads. 3 votes
Leviticus 19:27 — Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. 2 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. 2 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. 2 votes
2 Samuel 14:26 — And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year’s end that he polled because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king’s weight. 2 votes
Luke 21:18 — But there shall not an hair of your head perish. 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 11:1 — Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. 2 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. 2 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; 2 votes
1 Peter 3:3 — Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; 2 votes
Revelation 1:1 — The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: 2 votes

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1 Corinthians (4), Leviticus (2), Numbers (1), Deuteronomy (1), 2 Samuel (1), Ezekiel (1), Luke (1), Acts (1), 1 Timothy (1), 1 Peter (1), Revelation (1)

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