Bible Verses about โcutting your hairโ
The Bible contains 39 verses about cutting your hair across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โOr don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,โ
โfor you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.โ
โ"'You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.โ
โDoesn't even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?โ
โFor if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.โ
โLearn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow."โ
โ"Come now, and let us reason together," says Yahweh: "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.โ
โWash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.โ
โWhen you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.โ
โIf you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;โ
โ"What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?," says Yahweh. "I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals. I don't delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.โ
โMy soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.โ
โYour princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don't judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.โ
โFrom the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it: wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven't been closed, neither bandaged, neither soothed with oil.โ
โBring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me; new moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can't bear with evil assemblies.โ
โWhy should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.โ
โUnless Yahweh of Armies had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom; we would have been like Gomorrah.โ
โand I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin.โ
โThe vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.โ
โHear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: "I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.โ
โThe ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib; but Israel doesn't know, my people don't consider."โ
โAh sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.โ
โYour country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.โ
โThe daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.โ
โHear the word of Yahweh, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!โ
โWhen you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?โ
โbut if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it."โ
โHow the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.โ
โYour silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water.โ
โTherefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says: "Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, and avenge myself of my enemies;โ
โI will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called 'The city of righteousness, a faithful town.'โ
โZion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness.โ
โBut the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.โ
โFor they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.โ
โFor you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.โ
โThe strong will be like tinder, and his work like a spark. They will both burn together, and no one will quench them."โ
โ"'You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your heads, neither shall you clip off the edge of your beard.โ
โNeither shall they shave their heads, nor allow their locks to grow long; they shall only cut off the hair of their heads.โ
โCut off your hair, [Jerusalem], and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.โ
