Hair Length

Doesn’t even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

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

Neither shall they shave their heads, nor allow their locks to grow long; they shall only cut off the hair of their heads.

A woman shall not wear men’s clothing, neither shall a man put on women’s clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh your God.

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year’s end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it); he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king’s weight.

“‘All the days of his vow of separation no razor shall come on his head, until the days are fulfilled, in which he separates himself to Yahweh. He shall be holy. He shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long.

In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing;

For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.

Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;

Doesn’t even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him? — read the full passage →

And not a hair of your head will perish.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Paul, having stayed after this many more days, took his leave of the brothers, and sailed from there for Syria, together with Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow.

“‘You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your heads, neither shall you clip off the edge of your beard.

“‘They shall not shave their heads, neither shall they shave off the corners of their beards, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.

He told her all his heart, and said to her, “No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me, and I will become weak, and be like any other man.”

for, behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb: and he shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.”

In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing; — read the full passage →

But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God’s assemblies.

Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.

For man is not from woman, but woman from man;

but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled?

She vowed a vow, and said, “Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your handmaid, and remember me, and not forget your handmaid, but will give to your handmaid a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head.”

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing; — read the full passage →

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

For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

They had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like those of lions.

Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

“‘You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

For this cause the woman ought to have authority on her head, because of the angels.

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God. — read the full passage →

Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

Then a spirit passed before my face. The hair of my flesh stood up.

However the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaved.

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved. — read the full passage →

It shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off. He shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his body in water, then he shall be clean.

Neither shall you swear by your head, for you can’t make one hair white or black.

The Nazirite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of peace offerings.

All the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun the goats’ hair.

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

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

for neither was man created for the woman, but woman for the man.

It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of well set hair, baldness; instead of a robe, a wearing of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.

Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men left-handed; everyone could sling stones at a hair-breadth, and not miss.

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, — read the full passage →

For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. — read the full passage →

So Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.

“‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing; — read the full passage →

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread.

Therefore I beg you to take some food, for this is for your safety; for not a hair will perish from any of your heads.”

Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you. — read the full passage →

I gave my back to the strikers, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair; I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.

blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats’ hair,

I saw until thrones were placed, and one who was ancient of days sat: his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames, and its wheels burning fire.

Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord. — read the full passage →

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.

You, son of man, take a sharp sword; You shall take it as a barber’s razor to you, and shall cause it to pass on your head and on your beard: then take balances to weigh, and divide the hair.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

So Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away. — read the full passage →

Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession.

In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for I see not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

Cut off your hair, and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

Now in all Israel there was no one to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no defect in him. — read the full passage →

who testified to God’s word, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, about everything that he saw.

When I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded.

Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled? — read the full passage →

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

When he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me.”

“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: ‘When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to Yahweh,

For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick.

Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.

I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the book, and to break its seals?”