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Your Hair 1 Peter 3:3 ESV / 34 helpful votes Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—Ezekiel 44:20 ESV / 33 helpful votes They shall not shave their heads or let their locks grow long; they shall surely trim the hair of their heads.Leviticus 19:28 ESV / 25 helpful votes You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.1 Corinthians 11:14 ESV / 15 helpful votes Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace for him,1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 12 helpful votes Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you. But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head, but every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven. …Deuteronomy 22:5 ESV / 12 helpful votes “A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman’s cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God.Judges 16:1-31 ESV / 9 helpful votes Samson went to Gaza, and there he saw a prostitute, and he went in to her. The Gazites were told, “Samson has come here.” And they surrounded the place and set an ambush for him all night at the gate of the city. They kept quiet all night, saying, “Let us wait till the light of the morning; then we will kill him.” But Samson lay till midnight, and at midnight he arose and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city and the two posts, and pulled them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that is in front of Hebron. After this he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Seduce him, and see where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to humble him. And we will each give you 1,100 pieces of silver.” …Matthew 10:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. …
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