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Womans Hair
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But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given to her for a covering.
Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.
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.
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.
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 →
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.
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 →
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.
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;
Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →
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.
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;
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →
Doesn’t even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?
“‘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.
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.
Neither shall they shave their heads, nor allow their locks to grow long; they shall only cut off the hair of their heads.
but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →
For this cause the woman ought to have authority on her head, because of the angels.
But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God’s assemblies.
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.
Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →
Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled?
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.
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 →
Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.
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.
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 →
Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.
Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.
They had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like those of lions.
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 →
“‘They shall not shave their heads, neither shall they shave off the corners of their beards, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.
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.
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.
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.”
Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
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 →
When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, — read the full passage →
Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, that descend from Mount Gilead.
for neither was man created for the woman, but woman for the man.
“‘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.
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 →
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, — read the full passage →
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.
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.
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.”
The priest shall set the woman before Yahweh, and let the hair of the woman’s head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse.
For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water; — read the full passage →
“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,
Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. — read the full passage →
Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,
It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick.
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 →
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,
For man is not from woman, but woman from man;
You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I.
Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord’s cup in a way unworthy of the Lord will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.
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.
Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.
However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. — read the full passage →
I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.
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.”
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled? — read the full passage →
However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, so he doesn’t open his mouth.
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.
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.
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.
Strength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come.
It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.
This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?
Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
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 →
and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; — read the full passage →
For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.
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.
However the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaved.
Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day. — read the full passage →
For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;
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 →
For everything spoken by God is possible.”
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.
Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout, is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.
When Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and attired her head, and looked out at the window.
David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent by his servants to comfort him concerning his father. David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.
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.”
God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.
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.”
His head and his hair were white as white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire.
Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.
To them it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you, they ministered these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.
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