Bible Verses about “men cutting their hair”
The Bible contains 50 verses about men cutting their hair across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Whose adorning let it not be that outward [adorning] of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;”
“But [let it be] the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, [even the ornament] of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.”
“Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?”
“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.”
“But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for [her] hair is given her for a covering.”
“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.”
“For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:”
“But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with [her] head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.”
“Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered [them] to you.”
“For as the woman [is] of the man, even so [is] the man also by the woman; but all things of God.”
“For this cause ought the woman to have power on [her] head because of the angels.”
“But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.”
“Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.”
“For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.”
“For a man indeed ought not to cover [his] head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.”
“Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?”
“Every man praying or prophesying, having [his] head covered, dishonoureth his head.”
“Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.”
“The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.”
“The LORD bless thee, and keep thee:”
“Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.”
“The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:”
“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.”
“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.”
“Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate [themselves] to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate [themselves] unto the LORD:”
“¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,”
“Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them,”
“He shall separate [himself] from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.”
“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.”
“All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.”
“And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation [at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put [it] in the fire which [is] under the sacrifice of the peace offerings.”
“¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,”
“And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them.”
“All the days that he separateth [himself] unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body.”
“He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God [is] upon his head.”
“All the days of his separation he [is] holy unto the LORD.”
“And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.”
“And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:”
“And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make an atonement for him, for that he sinned by the dead, and shall hallow his head that same day.”
“And he shall consecrate unto the LORD the days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: but the days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled.”
“And this [is] the law of the Nazarite, when the days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:”
“And he shall offer his offering unto the LORD, one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings,”
“And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings.”
“And the priest shall bring [them] before the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering:”
“And he shall offer the ram [for] a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also his meat offering, and his drink offering.”
“And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put [them] upon the hands of the Nazarite, after [the hair of] his separation is shaven:”
“And the priest shall wave them [for] a wave offering before the LORD: this [is] holy for the priest, with the wave breast and heave shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may drink wine.”
“This [is] the law of the Nazarite who hath vowed, [and of] his offering unto the LORD for his separation, beside [that] that his hand shall get: according to the vow which he vowed, so he must do after the law of his separation.”