Bible Verses About Counting Hair
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for counting hair, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 438 votes, led by Luke 12:7. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Counting Hair
Luke 12:739 votes
But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Luke 21:1829 votes
But there shall not an hair of your head perish.
Matthew 10:3028 votes
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
1 Samuel 14:4522 votes
And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? God forbid: as the Lord liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.
2 Samuel 14:1120 votes
Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the Lord thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the Lord liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.
2 Samuel 14:2619 votes
And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year’s end that he polled it: 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.
1 Corinthians 11:1418 votes
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
1 Corinthians 11:1518 votes
But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.
Acts 27:3417 votes
Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.
1 Corinthians 11:617 votes
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.
1 Peter 3:317 votes
Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
Revelation 1:115 votes
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:
Leviticus 21:514 votes
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.
Psalms 40:1213 votes
For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
Proverbs 16:3113 votes
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Ezekiel 44:2013 votes
Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
1 Timothy 2:913 votes
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;
Leviticus 19:2812 votes
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord.
Deuteronomy 22:512 votes
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.
Isaiah 3:2412 votes
And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
1 Corinthians 11:1-3412 votes
Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
1 Corinthians 11:512 votes
But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.
Revelation 9:812 votes
And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.
Numbers 6:511 votes
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.
Luke 11:1-5410 votes
And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
What does the Bible say about counting hair?
Readers most often cite Luke 12:7 on the subject of counting hair. Across 438 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Luke 21:18, Matthew 10:30, 1 Samuel 14:45. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.