Bible Verses About Men Cutting Their Hair
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for men cutting their hair, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,383 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 Men Cutting Their Hair
Leviticus 19:27188 votes
Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
1 Corinthians 11:14174 votes
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
Ezekiel 44:20155 votes
Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
Leviticus 21:5134 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.
Numbers 6:1-2786 votes
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Jeremiah 7:2961 votes
Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the Lord hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
1 Corinthians 11:2-1655 votes
Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
1 Peter 3:3-543 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;
Acts 18:1840 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.
2 Samuel 10:439 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 Samuel 14:2633 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 21:2429 votes
Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.
1 Corinthians 11:629 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 11:1-14:4027 votes
Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
1 Corinthians 11:1525 votes
But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.
Numbers 6:524 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 11:14-1520 votes
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
2 Timothy 2:1520 votes
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Job 1:2019 votes
Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,
Deuteronomy 22:515 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 Samuel 1:1115 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.
Psalms 23:1-615 votes
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
1 Corinthians 11:314 votes
But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
Deuteronomy 14:113 votes
Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
1 Peter 3:313 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;
What does the Bible say about men cutting their hair?
Readers most often cite Leviticus 19:27 on the subject of men cutting their hair. Across 1,383 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 11:14, Ezekiel 44:20, Leviticus 21:5. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.