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Bible Verses about “head coverings”

The Bible contains 50 verses about head coverings across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.

1 Timothy 2:9
851 votes

“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 John 2:15
647 votes

“Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.”

1 John 2:16
594 votes

“For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.”

Deuteronomy 22:5
567 votes

“A woman shall not wear men's clothing, neither shall a man put on women's clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh your God.”

1 John 2:17
474 votes

“The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.”

1 Corinthians 11:14
447 votes

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

1 Corinthians 11:3
380 votes

“But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.”

Titus 2:5
377 votes

“to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed.”

1 Corinthians 11:15
363 votes

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

1 Corinthians 11:1
321 votes

“Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.”

Titus 2:4
316 votes

“that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,”

1 Corinthians 11:6
315 votes

“For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.”

1 Corinthians 11:5
305 votes

“But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.”

1 Corinthians 11:2
304 votes

“Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.”

1 John 2:4
295 votes

“One who says, "I know him," and doesn't keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn't in him.”

1 Corinthians 11:12
276 votes

“For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.”

Titus 2:3
275 votes

“and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;”

1 Corinthians 11:10
272 votes

“For this cause the woman ought to have authority on her head, because of the angels.”

1 Corinthians 11:16
269 votes

“But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God's assemblies.”

1 Corinthians 11:9
263 votes

“for neither was man created for the woman, but woman for the man.”

1 Corinthians 11:8
260 votes

“For man is not from woman, but woman from man;”

1 Corinthians 11:7
259 votes

“For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.”

1 Corinthians 11:24
259 votes

“When he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me."”

1 Corinthians 11:13
258 votes

“Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled?”

1 Corinthians 11:26
258 votes

“For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.”

1 Corinthians 11:4
257 votes

“Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.”

1 Corinthians 11:25
257 votes

“In the same way he also took the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink, in memory of me."”

1 Corinthians 11:28
253 votes

“But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.”

1 John 2:9
253 votes

“He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now.”

1 Corinthians 11:11
252 votes

“Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.”

1 John 2:27
252 votes

“As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don't need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.”

1 Corinthians 11:27
249 votes

“Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord's cup in a way unworthy of the Lord will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.”

1 Corinthians 11:29
242 votes

“For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy way eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he doesn't discern the Lord's body.”

1 John 2:3
241 votes

“This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.”

1 John 2:6
241 votes

“he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.”

1 Corinthians 11:30
237 votes

“For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.”

1 John 2:18
237 votes

“Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.”

1 Corinthians 11:23
236 votes

“For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread.”

1 John 2:2
233 votes

“And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.”

1 John 2:11
228 votes

“But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn't know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.”

1 John 2:1
224 votes

“My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.”

1 Corinthians 11:22
219 votes

“What, don't you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God's assembly, and put them to shame who don't have? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don't praise you.”

1 Corinthians 11:34
218 votes

“But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.”

1 John 2:20
218 votes

“You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.”

1 John 2:19
215 votes

“They went out from us, but they didn't belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.”

1 Corinthians 11:31
214 votes

“For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn't be judged.”

1 Corinthians 11:20
213 votes

“When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat.”

1 Corinthians 11:19
212 votes

“For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.”

1 Corinthians 11:32
212 votes

“But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.”

1 Corinthians 11:18
211 votes

“For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.”

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