Bible Verses About Hair Covering
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for hair covering, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,068 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 11:5-6. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Hair Covering
1 Corinthians 11:5-6193 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.
Numbers 5:18177 votes
And the priest shall set the woman before the Lord, and uncover the woman’s head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse:
1 Corinthians 11:15173 votes
But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.
Genesis 24:65155 votes
For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.
Deuteronomy 22:5136 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 2:9129 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 3:3120 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 11:13-16107 votes
Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?
Song of Songs 4:196 votes
Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.
1 Corinthians 11:1080 votes
For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.
1 Corinthians 11:1-3461 votes
Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
Isaiah 47:260 votes
Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
1 Corinthians 11:657 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 Corinthians 11:1349 votes
Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?
1 Corinthians 11:539 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.
1 Timothy 2:8-1538 votes
I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
Isaiah 3:2433 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.
Isaiah 3:1730 votes
Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover their secret parts.
1 Corinthians 11:730 votes
For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
Song of Songs 4:329 votes
Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.
Ezekiel 44:2028 votes
Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
Genesis 24:64-6525 votes
And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel.
1 Corinthians 11:2-1622 votes
Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
Song of Songs 6:721 votes
As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.
Deuteronomy 22:1220 votes
Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.
What does the Bible say about hair covering?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 11:5-6 on the subject of hair covering. Across 2,068 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Numbers 5:18, 1 Corinthians 11:15, Genesis 24:65. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.