Hair, The

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• Psalms 68:21 OT

  But God will strike through the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.

• Psalms 40:12 OT

  For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

• Psalms 69:4 OT

  Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

• Judges 16:22 OT

  However, the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaved.

• Matthew 10:30 NT

  but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

• Daniel 3:27 OT

  The local governors, the deputies, and the governors, and the king’s counselors, being gathered together, saw these men, that the fire had no power on their bodies. The hair of their head wasn’t singed. Their pants weren’t changed, the…

• Luke 21:18 NT

  And not a hair of your head will perish.

• Song of Solomon 5:11 OT

  His head is like the purest gold. His hair is bushy, black as a raven.

• 1 Samuel 12:2 OT

  Now, behold, the king walks before you. I am old and gray-headed. Behold, my sons are with you. I have walked before you from my youth to this day.

• Psalms 71:18 OT

  Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

• Hosea 7:9 OT

  Strangers have devoured his strength, and he doesn’t realize it. Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him, and he doesn’t realize it.

• Daniel 7:9 OT

  “I watched until thrones were placed, and one who was ancient of days sat. His clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool. His throne was fiery flames, and its wheels burning fire.

• Job 12:12 OT

  With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.

• Proverbs 16:31 OT

  Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.

• Leviticus 19:32 OT

  “ ‘You shall rise up before the gray head and honor the face of the elderly; and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

• Matthew 5:36 NT

  Neither shall you swear by your head, for you can’t make one hair white or black.

• 1 Corinthians 11:15 NT

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

• 1 Timothy 2:9 NT

  In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety, not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing,

• 1 Peter 3:3 NT

  Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;

• Isaiah 3:24 OT

  It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of well set hair, baldness; instead of a robe, a wearing of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.

• Luke 7:38 NT

  Standing behind at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.

• John 12:3 NT

  Therefore Mary took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed Jesus’s feet and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.

• 2 Samuel 14:26 OT

  When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year’s end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it); he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king’s weight.

• 1 Corinthians 11:14 NT

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