Bible Verses about “cutting hair”
The Bible contains 50 verses about cutting hair across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?”
“For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.”
“‹But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.›”
“Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I [am] the LORD.”
“¶ 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;”
“‹No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.›”
“‹Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?›”
“‹Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?›”
“‹Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day› [is] ‹the evil thereof.›”
“¶ ‹Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?›”
“‹(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.›”
“‹For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:›”
“‹But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.›”
“‹And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:›”
“‹And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.›”
“‹Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven,› [shall he] ‹not much more› [clothe] ‹you, O ye of little faith?›”
“‹Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?›”
“¶ ‹Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.›”
“‹For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.›”
“Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?”
“‹But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.›”
“‹But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:›”
“¶ ‹Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:›”
“‹Therefore when thou doest› [thine] ‹alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.›”
“‹And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.›”
“‹That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.›”
“‹But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:›”
“¶ ‹And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites› [are]: ‹for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.›”
“‹And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.›”
“‹But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen› [do]: ‹for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.›”
“‹Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as› [it is] ‹in heaven.›”
“‹Give us this day our daily bread.›”
“¶ ‹After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.›”
“‹The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.›”
“But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for [her] hair is given her for a covering.”
“But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.”
“‹But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;›”
“¶ ‹Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.›”
“‹But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great› [is] ‹that darkness!›”
“‹That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.›”
“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.”
“‹Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.›”
“But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.”
“Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?”
“Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.”
“Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.”
“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.”
“‹But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.›”
“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.”
“¶ 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.”