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⁶So if a woman is not veiled, let her hair be cut off. Truly then, if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut off, or to have her head shaven, then she should cover her head.

²⁰Now they shall not shave their heads, and they shall not grow long hair. Instead, they shall trim the hair of their heads.

²⁷And you shall not cut the hair of your head circularly, nor shave your beard.

²⁸You shall not cut your flesh for the dead, and you shall not make other figures or marks on yourself. I am the Lord.

⁵During all the time of his separation, no razor shall pass over his head, even until the completion of the day when he is consecrated to the Lord. He shall be holy, letting the hair of his head grow long.

¹⁴Does not even nature herself teach you that, indeed, if a man grows his hair long, it is a disgrace for him?

¹³Judge for yourselves. Is it proper for a woman to pray to God unveiled? ¹⁴Does not even nature herself teach you that, indeed, if a man grows his hair long, it is a disgrace for him? ¹⁵Yet truly, if a woman grows her hair long, it is a glory for her, because her hair has been given to her as a covering. ¹⁶But if anyone has a mind to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor does the Church of God.

⁵Neither shall they shave their head or their beard, and they shall not make incisions in their flesh.

⁹Similarly also, women should be dressed fittingly, adorning themselves with compunction and restraint, and not with plaited hair, nor gold, nor pearls, nor costly attire, ¹⁰but in a manner proper for women who are professing piety by means of good works.

¹⁵Yet truly, if a woman grows her hair long, it is a glory for her, because her hair has been given to her as a covering.

³⁰For even the hairs of your head have all been numbered.

²⁹Cut off your hair, and cast it away. And take up a lamentation on high. For the Lord has cast aside and abandoned this generation of his fury.

¹⁸Yet truly, Paul, after he had remained for many more days, having said goodbye to the brothers, sailed into Syria, and with him were Priscilla and Aquila. Now he had shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had made a vow.

¹⁹Or do you not know that your bodies are the Temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? ²⁰For you have been bought at a great price. Glorify and carry God in your body.

¹⁶Become bald and shaved for your delicate sons. Increase your baldness like the eagle. For they have been carried into captivity from you.

¹“Pay attention, lest you perform your justice before men, in order to be seen by them; otherwise you shall not have a reward with your Father, who is in heaven. ²Therefore, when you give alms, do not choose to sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the towns, so that they may be honored by men. Amen I say to you, they have received their reward. ³But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, ⁴so that your almsgiving may be in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will repay you. ⁵And when you pray, you should not be like the hypocrites, who love standing in the synagogues and at the corners of the streets to pray, so that they may be seen by men. Amen I say to you, they have received their reward. ⁶But you, when you pray, enter into your room, and having shut the door, pray to your Father in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will repay you.