Bible Verses About Haircut
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for haircut, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,876 votes, led by Leviticus 19:27. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Haircut
Leviticus 19:27274 votes
Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
1 Corinthians 11:14-15199 votes
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
Judges 16:17163 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.
Numbers 6:5157 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.
Ezekiel 44:20156 votes
Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
2 Samuel 14:26141 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.
Acts 18:18140 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.
1 Corinthians 11:685 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 11:1478 votes
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
Leviticus 21:567 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 16:1965 votes
And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
1 Corinthians 11:13-1561 votes
Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?
1 Samuel 1:1143 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.
2 Samuel 14:25-2636 votes
But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.
Judges 13:534 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 Peter 3:331 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 11:1-3429 votes
Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
1 Timothy 2:924 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;
Psalms 40:1-1722 votes
I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
2 Samuel 10:419 votes
Wherefore Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.
2 Kings 2:2317 votes
And he went up from thence unto Beth–el: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
Luke 7:3813 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.
Jeremiah 25:2312 votes
Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners,
Leviticus 19:2810 votes
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord.
What does the Bible say about haircut?
Readers most often cite Leviticus 19:27 on the subject of haircut. Across 1,876 votes, 24 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 11:14-15, Judges 16:17, Numbers 6:5. This page lists all 24 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.