Hair

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• 1 Corinthians 11:15

  But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.

• Proverbs 16:31

  The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.

• 1 Peter 3:3

  Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;

• Matthew 10:30

  But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

• Numbers 6:5

  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

  Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?

• 1 Timothy 2:9

  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 Corinthians 11:6

  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.

• 2 Samuel 14:26

  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.

• Luke 12:7

  But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.

• Ezekiel 44:20

  Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.

• Leviticus 19:27

  Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.

• Luke 21:18

  But there shall not an hair of your head perish.

• Luke 7:38

  And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.

• Deuteronomy 22:5

  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.

• Judges 16:17

  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.

• Isaiah 3:24

  And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.

• Acts 18:18

  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.

• Leviticus 21:5

  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.

• Leviticus 19:32

  Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.

• 1 Corinthians 11:1–34

  Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you. 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. …

• Leviticus 19:28

  Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.

• 1 Corinthians 11:14–15

  Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.

• 1 Timothy 2:9–10

  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; But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.

• John 12:3

  Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

• 1 Samuel 1:11

  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.

• 1 Corinthians 11:5

  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.

• Revelation 9:8

  And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

• Psalms 40:12

  For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.

• 1 Peter 3:3–4

  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.

• 1 Corinthians 11:5–6

  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. 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 11:13

  Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?

• Judges 16:22

  Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.

• Jeremiah 7:29

  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.

• Leviticus 13:3

  And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean.

• 1 Corinthians 11:16

  But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

• Leviticus 14:9

  But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.

• 1 Corinthians 11:3

  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.

• 1 Samuel 14:45

  And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? God forbid: as the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.

• Proverbs 20:29

  The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.

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