Braided Hair
7 passages
- 1 Timothy 2:9
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,
Read it in context - 1 Peter 3:3–4
3Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair or gold jewelry or fine clothes, 4but from the inner disposition of your heart, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in God’s sight.
Read it in context - Deuteronomy 22:5
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.
Read it in context - Proverbs 11:22
Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.
Read it in context - 1 Corinthians 11:15
but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For long hair is given to her as a covering.
Read it in context - Romans 12:1
Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
Read it in context - Proverbs 31:30
Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.
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