What Does The Bible Say About?

Hair

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1 Corinthians 11:15

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but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For long hair is given to her as a covering.

Proverbs 16:31

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Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is attained along the path of righteousness.

1 Corinthians 11:14

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Doesn’t nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him,

1 Peter 3:3

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Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair or gold jewelry or fine clothes,

1 Corinthians 11:6

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If a woman does not cover her head, she should have her hair cut off. And if it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut or shaved off, she should cover her head.

1 Timothy 2:9

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Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,

Luke 12:7

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And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

Matthew 10:30

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And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

Deuteronomy 22:5

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A woman must not wear men’s clothing, and a man must not wear women’s clothing, for whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD your God.

2 Samuel 14:26

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And when he cut the hair of his head—he shaved it every year because his hair got so heavy—he would weigh it out to be two hundred shekels, according to the royal standard.

Luke 21:18

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Yet not even a hair of your head will perish.

Numbers 6:5

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For the entire period of his vow of separation, no razor shall pass over his head. He must be holy until the time of his separation to the LORD is complete; he must let the hair of his head grow long.

Ezekiel 44:20

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They must not shave their heads or let their hair grow long, but must carefully trim their hair.

Isaiah 3:24

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Instead of fragrance there will be a stench; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of styled hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; instead of beauty, shame.

Leviticus 19:32

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You are to rise in the presence of the elderly, honor the aged, and fear your God. I am the LORD.

1 Corinthians 11:1-34

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You are to imitate me, just as I imitate Christ. Now I commend you for remembering me in everything and for maintaining the traditions, just as I passed them on to you. But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head. And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for it is just as if her head were shaved. . . .

Acts 18:18

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Paul remained in Corinth for quite some time before saying goodbye to the brothers. He had his head shaved in Cenchrea to keep a vow he had made, and then he sailed for Syria, accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila.

Leviticus 19:28

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You must not make any cuts in your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.

1 Timothy 2:9-10

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Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, but with good deeds, as is proper for women who profess to worship God.

John 12:3

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Then Mary took about a pint of expensive perfume, made of pure nard, and she anointed Jesus’ feet and wiped them with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

Luke 7:38

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As she stood behind Him at His feet weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears and wipe them with her hair. Then she kissed His feet and anointed them with the perfume.

Leviticus 21:5

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Priests must not make bald spots on their heads, shave off the edges of their beards, or make cuts in their bodies.

Psalm 40:12

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For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.

Leviticus 19:27

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You must not cut off the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.

1 Corinthians 11:13

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Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?

1 Corinthians 11:5

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And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for it is just as if her head were shaved.

Judges 16:22

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However, the hair of his head began to grow back after it had been shaved.

Jeremiah 7:29

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Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’

Leviticus 13:3

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The priest is to examine the infection on his skin, and if the hair in the infection has turned white and the sore appears to be deeper than the skin, it is a skin disease. After the priest examines him, he must pronounce him unclean.

1 Corinthians 11:16

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If anyone is inclined to dispute this, we have no other practice, nor do the churches of God.

1 Corinthians 11:3

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But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

Leviticus 14:9

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On the seventh day he must shave off all his hair—his head, his beard, his eyebrows, and the rest of his hair. He must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water, and he will be clean.

1 Samuel 14:45

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But the people said to Saul, “Must Jonathan die—he who accomplished such a great deliverance for Israel? Never! As surely as the LORD lives, not a hair of his head will fall to the ground, for with God’s help he has accomplished this today.” So the people rescued Jonathan, and he did not die.

Revelation 9:8

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They had hair like that of women, and teeth like those of lions.

Proverbs 20:29

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The glory of young men is their strength, and gray hair is the splendor of the old.

Acts 17:10-11

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As soon as night had fallen, the brothers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. On arriving there, they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.

Isaiah 7:20

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On that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates—the king of Assyria—to shave your head and the hair of your legs, and to remove your beard as well.

Daniel 3:27

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and when the satraps, prefects, governors, and royal advisers had gathered around, they saw that the fire had no effect on the bodies of these men. Not a hair of their heads was singed, their robes were unaffected, and there was no smell of fire on them.

Proverbs 31:30

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Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.

1 Peter 3:1-6

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Wives, in the same way, submit yourselves to your husbands, so that even if they refuse to believe the word, they will be won over without words by the behavior of their wives when they see your pure and reverent demeanor. Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair or gold jewelry or fine clothes, but from the inner disposition of your heart, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in God’s sight. For this is how the holy women of the past adorned themselves. They put their hope in God and were submissive to their husbands, . . .

Numbers 6:18

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Then at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, the Nazirite is to shave his consecrated head, take the hair, and put it on the fire under the peace offering.

Daniel 7:9

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As I continued to watch, thrones were set in place, and the Ancient of Days took His seat. His clothing was white as snow, and the hair of His head was like pure wool. His throne was flaming with fire, and its wheels were all ablaze.

Acts 27:34

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So for your own preservation, I urge you to eat something, because not a single hair of your head will be lost.”

Judges 16:17

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Samson told her all that was in his heart: “My hair has never been cut, because I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, my strength will leave me, and I will become as weak as any other man.”

2 Kings 9:30

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Now when Jehu arrived in Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. So she painted her eyes, adorned her head, and looked down from a window.

Leviticus 13:10

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The priest will examine him, and if there is a white swelling on the skin that has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the swelling,

Hosea 7:9

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Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know.

1 Corinthians 11:2-16

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Now I commend you for remembering me in everything and for maintaining the traditions, just as I passed them on to you. But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head. And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for it is just as if her head were shaved. If a woman does not cover her head, she should have her hair cut off. And if it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut or shaved off, she should cover her head. . . .

1 Peter 3:3-4

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Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair or gold jewelry or fine clothes, but from the inner disposition of your heart, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in God’s sight.

1 Corinthians 11:3-15

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But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head. And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for it is just as if her head were shaved. If a woman does not cover her head, she should have her hair cut off. And if it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut or shaved off, she should cover her head. A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man. . . .

2 Samuel 10:4-5

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So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved off half of each man’s beard, cut off their garments at the hips, and sent them away. When this was reported to David, he sent messengers to meet the men, since they had been thoroughly humiliated. The king told them, “Stay in Jericho until your beards have grown back, and then return.”

1 Corinthians 11:5-6

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And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for it is just as if her head were shaved. If a woman does not cover her head, she should have her hair cut off. And if it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut or shaved off, she should cover her head.

Genesis 3:16

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To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

Revelation 1:1

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This is the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants what must soon come to pass. He made it known by sending His angel to His servant John,

Genesis 1:27

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So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

Job 12:12

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Wisdom is found with the elderly, and understanding comes with long life.

2 Samuel 14:11

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“Please,” she replied, “may the king invoke the LORD your God to prevent the avenger of blood from increasing the devastation, so that my son may not be destroyed!” “As surely as the LORD lives,” he vowed, “not a hair of your son’s head will fall to the ground.”

Exodus 7:1-25

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The LORD answered Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet. You are to speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his land. But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I will multiply My signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, Pharaoh will not listen to you. Then I will lay My hand on Egypt, and by mighty acts of judgment I will bring the divisions of My people the Israelites out of the land of Egypt. And the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD, when I stretch out My hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out from among them.” . . .

Luke 16:1-31

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Jesus also said to His disciples, “There was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions. So he called him in to ask, ‘What is this I hear about you? Turn in an account of your management, for you cannot be manager any longer.’ The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, now that my master is taking away my position? I am too weak to dig and too ashamed to beg. I know what I will do, so that after my removal from management, people will welcome me into their homes.’ And he called in each one of his master’s debtors. ‘How much do you owe my master?’ he asked the first. . . .

Ezekiel 5:1

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“As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword, use it as a barber’s razor, and shave your head and beard. Then take a set of scales and divide the hair.

1 Samuel 16:7

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But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or height, for I have rejected him; the LORD does not see as man does. For man sees the outward appearance, but the LORD sees the heart.”

Ezra 9:3

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When I heard this report, I tore my tunic and cloak, pulled out some hair from my head and beard, and sat down in horror.

Judges 13:5

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For behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. And no razor shall come over his head, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he will begin the deliverance of Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”

Nehemiah 13:25

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I rebuked them and called down curses on them. I beat some of these men and pulled out their hair. Then I made them take an oath before God and said, “You must not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters as wives for your sons or for yourselves!

Job 4:15

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Then a spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body bristled.

Matthew 5:36

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Nor should you swear by your head, for you cannot make a single hair white or black.

Song of Solomon 4:1

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How beautiful you are, my darling—how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Mount Gilead.

1 Corinthians 11:1-16

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You are to imitate me, just as I imitate Christ. Now I commend you for remembering me in everything and for maintaining the traditions, just as I passed them on to you. But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head. And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for it is just as if her head were shaved. . . .

Isaiah 50:6

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I offered My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who tore out My beard. I did not hide My face from scorn and spittle.

Judges 16:19-20

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And having lulled him to sleep on her lap, she called a man to shave off the seven braids of his head. In this way she began to subdue him, and his strength left him. Then she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” When Samson awoke from his sleep, he thought, “I will escape as I did before and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the LORD had departed from him.

Romans 1:26-27

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For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Psalm 69:4

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Those who hate me without cause outnumber the hairs of my head; many are those who would destroy me—my enemies for no reason. Though I did not steal, I must repay.

Song of Solomon 5:11

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His head is purest gold; his hair is wavy and black as a raven.

1 Samuel 1:11

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And she made a vow, pleading, “O LORD of Hosts, if only You will look upon the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, not forgetting Your maidservant but giving her a son, then I will dedicate him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall ever come over his head.”

1 Samuel 12:2

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Now here is the king walking before you, and I am old and gray, and my sons are here with you. I have walked before you from my youth until this day.

Exodus 25:4

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blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; fine linen and goat hair;

Judges 20:16

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Among all these soldiers there were 700 select left-handers, each of whom could sling a stone at a hair without missing.

1 Corinthians 1:1-31

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Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I always thank my God for you because of the grace He has given you in Christ Jesus. For in Him you have been enriched in every way, in all speech and all knowledge, . . .

2 Samuel 10:4

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So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved off half of each man’s beard, cut off their garments at the hips, and sent them away.

Exodus 26:7

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You are to make curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle—eleven curtains in all.

Exodus 35:26

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And all the skilled women whose hearts were stirred spun the goat hair.

Exodus 36:14

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He then made curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle—eleven curtains in all.

Psalm 71:18

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Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.

1 Corinthians 11:10

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For this reason a woman ought to have a sign of authority on her head, because of the angels.

1 Corinthians 11:2

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Now I commend you for remembering me in everything and for maintaining the traditions, just as I passed them on to you.

1 Timothy 4:8

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For physical exercise is of limited value, but godliness is valuable in every way, holding promise for the present life and for the one to come.

1 Chronicles 19:4

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So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved their beards, cut off their garments at the hips, and sent them away.

1 Corinthians 11:4

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Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head.

1 Corinthians 11:7

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A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.

1 Corinthians 11:3-16

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But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head. And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for it is just as if her head were shaved. If a woman does not cover her head, she should have her hair cut off. And if it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut or shaved off, she should cover her head. A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man. . . .

1 Corinthians 11:8

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For man did not come from woman, but woman from man.

Revelation 1:14

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The hair of His head was white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes were like a blazing fire.

1 Corinthians 11:9

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Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.

1 Corinthians 11:23

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For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night He was betrayed, took bread,

Deuteronomy 32:7

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Remember the days of old; consider the years long past. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will inform you.

Leviticus 13:45

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A diseased person must wear torn clothes and let his hair hang loose, and he must cover his mouth and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean!’

Numbers 6:19

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And the priest is to take the boiled shoulder from the ram, one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and put them into the hands of the Nazirite who has just shaved the hair of his consecration.

Numbers 6:1-5

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And the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to the Israelites and tell them that if a man or woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the LORD, he is to abstain from wine and strong drink. He must not drink vinegar made from wine or strong drink, and he must not drink any grape juice or eat fresh grapes or raisins. All the days of his separation, he is not to eat anything that comes from the grapevine, not even the seeds or skins. For the entire period of his vow of separation, no razor shall pass over his head. He must be holy until the time of his separation to the LORD is complete; he must let the hair of his head grow long.

James 1:12

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Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.

Revelation 1:1-20

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This is the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants what must soon come to pass. He made it known by sending His angel to His servant John, who testifies to everything he saw. This is the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear and obey what is written in it, because the time is near. John, To the seven churches in the province of Asia: Grace and peace to you from Him who is and was and is to come, and from the seven Spirits before His throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood, . . .

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