Bible Verses About Long Hair
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for long hair, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,007 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 Long Hair
1 Corinthians 11:15194 votes
But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.
1 Corinthians 11:14187 votes
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
Numbers 6:5100 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.
Judges 13:576 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 Corinthians 11:1-3464 votes
Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
1 Samuel 16:757 votes
But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
1 Samuel 1:1141 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.
Deuteronomy 22:526 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.
2 Samuel 14:25-2625 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.
1 Timothy 2:921 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 3:321 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;
Proverbs 16:3120 votes
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Acts 18:1817 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.
Song of Songs 4:1-1616 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 11:616 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 11:413 votes
Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head.
1 Corinthians 11:1013 votes
For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.
1 Corinthians 11:1613 votes
But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
Judges 16:1712 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.
Ezekiel 44:2012 votes
Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
Numbers 6:1-2711 votes
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Samuel 14:2611 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.
1 Corinthians 11:14-1511 votes
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
Matthew 10:3010 votes
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
1 Corinthians 11:1310 votes
Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?
What does the Bible say about long hair?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 11:15 on the subject of long hair. Across 1,007 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 11:14, Numbers 6:5, Judges 13:5. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.