The Bible teaches that hair is a symbol of identity and faith. It reflects how you present yourself to the world and your relationship with God. By caring for your appearance, you honor the body God gave you. Your hair can be a testament to your values and beliefs.
Below is our full list of bible verses on hair (King James Version – KJV) provided in ranked order.
Most Popular Bible Verses About Hair
1 Corinthians 11:15
“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
“31 The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.”
Related Themes: Respecting Your Parents Old Age Grandparents Aging
1 Corinthians 11:14
“14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?”
1 Peter 3:3
“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;”
Related Themes: Gold Humility Self-Esteem Jewelry Beauty
1 Corinthians 11:6
“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.”
1 Timothy 2:9
“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;”
Luke 12:7
“7 But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.”
Related Themes: Omnipotence Self-Esteem Money Self Respect
Matthew 10:30
“30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.”
Related Themes: Omnipotence Omnipresence
Deuteronomy 22:5
“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.”
2 Samuel 14:26
“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 21:18
“18 But there shall not an hair of your head perish.”
Numbers 6:5
“5 All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no rasor 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.”
Related Themes: Dreadlocks
Ezekiel 44:20
“20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.”
Related Themes: Dreadlocks
Isaiah 3:24
“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.”
Related Themes: Jewelry
Leviticus 19:32
“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.”
Related Themes: Respecting Your Parents Reverence Respect Old Age
Acts 18:18
“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.”
Related Themes: Omnipotence
Leviticus 19:28
“28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.”
Related Themes: Jewelry Youth Modesty Cleanliness
1 Timothy 2:9-10
“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;10 But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.”
John 12:3
“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.”
Leviticus 21:5
“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.”
Related Themes: Dreadlocks
Luke 7:38
“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.”
Related Themes: Tears
Psalm 40:12
“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.”
Related Themes: Forgiveness
Leviticus 19:27
“27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.”
1 Corinthians 11:13
“13 Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?”
1 Corinthians 11:5
“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.”
Judges 16:22
“22 Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.”
Jeremiah 7:29
“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
“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
“16 But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.”
Related Themes: Strife
Leviticus 14:9
“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.”
