Bible Verses About Hair
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for hair, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 15,107 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 11:15. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Hair
1 Corinthians 11:15572 votes
But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.
Proverbs 16:31560 votes
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
1 Peter 3:3449 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;
Matthew 10:30439 votes
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Numbers 6:5409 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 11:14397 votes
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
1 Timothy 2:9385 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 11:6365 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.
2 Samuel 14:26351 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.
Luke 12:7344 votes
But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Ezekiel 44:20316 votes
Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
Leviticus 19:27290 votes
Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
Luke 21:18288 votes
But there shall not an hair of your head perish.
Deuteronomy 22:5281 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.
Luke 7:38278 votes
And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
Judges 16:17244 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.
Isaiah 3:24232 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.
Acts 18:18230 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 19:32225 votes
Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the Lord.
Leviticus 21:5224 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 Corinthians 11:1-34221 votes
Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
Leviticus 19:28200 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 11:14-15196 votes
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
1 Timothy 2:9-10189 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;
John 12:3187 votes
Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
What does the Bible say about hair?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 11:15 on the subject of hair. Across 15,107 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 16:31, 1 Peter 3:3, Matthew 10:30. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.