Bible Verses About Cutting Hair
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for cutting hair, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 5,084 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 11:6. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Cutting Hair
1 Corinthians 11:6344 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.
Ezekiel 44:20336 votes
Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
Leviticus 19:27323 votes
Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
Leviticus 19:28235 votes
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord.
1 Corinthians 11:14215 votes
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
Numbers 6:5213 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.
1 Corinthians 11:13-16202 votes
Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?
Leviticus 21:5190 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.
1 Timothy 2:9-10144 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;
1 Corinthians 11:15107 votes
But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.
Matthew 10:3094 votes
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Jeremiah 7:2992 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 6:19-2091 votes
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?
Acts 18:1890 votes
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.
Micah 1:1684 votes
Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.
Matthew 6:1-3483 votes
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.
Deuteronomy 22:578 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.
1 Timothy 2:970 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;
1 Peter 3:366 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;
1 Corinthians 11:1662 votes
But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
1 Corinthians 11:361 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 11:1-3455 votes
Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
Isaiah 7:2049 votes
In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.
2 Samuel 14:2648 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.
Proverbs 16:3148 votes
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
What does the Bible say about cutting hair?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 11:6 on the subject of cutting hair. Across 5,084 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ezekiel 44:20, Leviticus 19:27, Leviticus 19:28. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.