Bible Verses About Hair Length
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for hair length, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 34,896 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 11:14. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Hair Length
1 Corinthians 11:141,340 votes
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
1 Corinthians 11:151,235 votes
But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.
Ezekiel 44:201,148 votes
Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
Deuteronomy 22:5905 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 Corinthians 11:1-34871 votes
Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
2 Samuel 14:26824 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.
Numbers 6:5772 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 Timothy 2:9701 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 11:6667 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 3:3662 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 11:14-15583 votes
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
Luke 21:18548 votes
But there shall not an hair of your head perish.
Revelation 1:1545 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:
Acts 18:18544 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.
Leviticus 19:27529 votes
Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
Leviticus 21:5528 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.
Judges 16:17493 votes
That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother’s womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.
Judges 13:5475 votes
For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.
1 Timothy 2:9-10475 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;
Proverbs 16:31460 votes
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
1 Corinthians 11:16460 votes
But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
Matthew 10:30459 votes
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
1 Corinthians 11:8459 votes
For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.
Luke 12:7449 votes
But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
1 Samuel 1:11436 votes
And she vowed a vow, and said, O Lord of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the Lord all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.
What does the Bible say about hair length?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 11:14 on the subject of hair length. Across 34,896 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 11:15, Ezekiel 44:20, Deuteronomy 22:5. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.