Where does it say in the Bible that men have to keep their hair short and women their hair long?

Question

I don't know if it actually says that in the Bible but if it does can you PLEASE post the passage(es)?!
Peace out.

Answer 1

I don't know where exactly the scriptures are at, I could probably take a guess. Somewhere between Romans and Hebrews. But the main thing is God does not look on the outside but in the inside where your true intentions are. He don't care how long your hair is or how short it is whether you are a man or woman. As long as you have accepted God as your Savior, that is the only thing He wants. How you show God through your life is what counts.

Answer 2

The Lord really does not care if you have short or long hair if you are a man or a woman. In the Old Testament, Lev 19, men were not allowed to round the corners of their heads. Since there were not allowed to shave the side of their heads, Jewish men would allow their hair to grow long and braid it. Samson had long hair, so did Samuel and God had no problem with it. But people will often use 1 Cor 10, I believe. Where Paul says a man should not have long hair. But the term "long hair" in the greek is in reference to man acting under the authority of a woman. Or, a man acting as a woman, or letting the wife rule the household as the man. Most people take that scripture out of context. But the Lord has no problem with a man or a woman's hair whether it is short or long, as long as it is in holiness and it does not suggest something twisted or perverted.

Answer 3

I Cor 11:14 Does not the very nature of things teach you that if a man has long hair , it is a disgrace to him, 15 but that if a woman has long hair , it is her glory?
This is why there are so many denominations. The bible also said for a man not to cut his hair ever; if he took the vow of a nazarite, like Samson did.
So? You can't make a hard and fast rule about hair out of this or you will be off balance. Still, some groups do. If a woman has short hair and she is not condemned then God doesn't condemn her either. Ditto for long hair on a man, such as a nazarite or any one else.

Answer 4

First of all ballsonthewall - Your so cute and so intelligent and so witty you must be an atheist.

1 Corinthians 11:14-15 talks about hair length for men or women. It is not a direct command and should not be used to enforce hair lengths on males or females.

Culturally Corinth had two temples in it that had temple prostitutes male and female. The male prostitutes tended to have long hair and the women prostitutes short hair to differentiate them from the common populace. You can see how for this culture and this culture only it would be a shame for a man to have long hair and a woman to have short hair.

Remember the epistles are letters that were written to a particular church and this one seems to be in response to a letter sent to Paul. It addresses problems that were occurring in that particular church and though we can take most of the principles and apply them to our current time some are for that church in that place at that time. The hair issue seems to be one of those for we are not even to give an appearance of evil and to look like a prostitute would give that appearance.

Jackdinah Ezek 44:20 - This scripture only applys to the priest.

Answer 5

A passage that mentions hair length in the New Testament is 1 Corinthians 11:3-15. The Corinthian church was in the middle of a controversy about the roles of men and women and the proper order of authority within the church.

In the Corinthian society, women showed submission to their husbands by wearing a veil. It seems that some of the women in the church were discarding their veils, something that only pagan temple prostitutes or other rebellious women would do. For a woman to come to church without her veil would be dishonoring to her husband, as well as culturally confusing. By the same token, for a man to wear a veil or a turban or to somehow have his head covered during worship was not culturally acceptable in Corinth.

Paul appeals to biology to illustrate the appropriateness of following the cultural standards: women naturally have longer hair than men, and men are much more prone to baldness. That is, God created women with a “natural veil” and men with an “uncovered head.” If a woman spurns the mark of her submission (the veil), she may as well shave her head (verse 6). His point is that if the culture says a woman should not be bald (going without her natural covering), then why would she reject that same culture’s standard of wearing a veil (going without her cultural covering)?

For the man’s part, it is unnatural for him to have “long hair” (verse 14). His hair is naturally shorter (and thinner) than the woman’s. This corresponds to the Corinthian tradition of men not wearing a head covering during worship. Paul urges the church to conform to the generally held ideas of male and female appearance.

Answer 6

There was a question in the eary Corinthian church about this same subject. Paul answered it by saying:

1Co 11:14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a dishonor to him?
1Co 11:15 But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.
1Co 11:16 But if any man seemeth to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

The key point here is in verse 16....we have no such custom, neither the churches of God. Does God really care if a man has long hair or not? Will having short hair get you into heaven? If it did then Jesus Himself would not have been allowed in. The costom at the time of Jesus was for men to wear their hair about shoulder/shoulderblade lenght.

However, as the saying goes...."When in Rome, do as the Romans do." In Brazil it is customary for Christian men to have short hair, otherwise they suffer ridicule.

Eph 2:8 for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;

Answer 7

1 Corinthians 11:14
Ezekiel 44:20

Answer 8

risky subject count -- human beings nonetheless debate it. And in case you purely yank the verses out of any context, they look very emphatic and sparkling... yet are not easily fairly as sparkling as they look. Paul's writing a letter to the Corinthian church, culled from secular society, and he's attempting to set a baseline for what the church ought to look like whilst located against secular society. (not something has yet been prevalent.) So Paul's admonition must be framed against the secular pratices of the day, the cost in the lifestyle of short hair for females human beings (i.e., social context), and so on. he's putting a regular with a view to shrink confusion in the newly prevalent church. "Hell-deserving" sin has little to do with it; he's purely arguing from human reason and usually used religious precendence here. He needs to attraction to a seen distinction between women and adult men human beings, besides as between pagan worshippers / prostitutes and girls human beings. [occasion: women human beings responsible for adultery, to illustrate, commonly had their hair shorn. Temple prostitutes commonly had their heads shaved. Paul needs to evade sending that contextual sign... somewhat like the fact that, in spite of the fact that the logo later called a swastika existed long before Hitler, no person makes use of it in recent times simply by fact that is grow to be contextually related to the Nazis.] all of us be conscious of that v14 wasn't a as we communicate-around the board condemnation of long hair on adult men -- the Nazarites (?) have been a sect the place not reducing one's hair became an illustration of devotion to God. (Samson in the OT became a form of.) Paul knew this, as a strict practitioner of the regulation, so it colorations how we examine the hair admonition. [be conscious: We additionally are not given a definition of what "long" and "short" is -- all all of us be conscious of is that "short" is "shorter than long," and vice versa. If hair legalism became the ingredient, then an easily length could have been given, acceptable?] besides, in case you do a sprint examine, you may uneasily hit upon extra of the Roman lifestyle of that ingredient and how that hair length / exposure became seen in that lifestyle. whilst some decide on a extra remoted interpretation of the verse(s), to me, social context is an invaluable argument and makes the main sense.

Answer 9

umm it doesn't straight out say it but the bible basically says that. in first and second samuel it talks about a man who was in battle and he was on his horse and he was going fast and his long hair gets caught in a tree and he is stuck and the enemy finds him and kills him

Answer 10

from Leviticus 4: 13 - 19

"hark! the hair of the males shall be short. lest ye be a female, then it should be long!"