9 Bible Verses about Trimming Facial Hair
Most Relevant Verses
You are not to cut off the hair at the sides of your head or mar the edge of your beard.
“Priests may not make bald spots on their heads, shave the edge of their beards, or make gashes on their bodies.
He is to shave off all his hair again on the seventh day: his head, his beard, his eyebrows, and the rest of his hair. He is to wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; he is clean.
So Hanun took David’s emissaries, shaved off half their beards, cut their clothes in half at the hips, and sent them away.
So Hanun took David’s emissaries, shaved them, cut their clothes in half at the hips, and sent them away.
It was reported to David about his men, so he sent messengers to meet them, since the men were deeply humiliated. The king said, “Stay in Jericho until your beards grow back; then return.”
When I heard this report, I tore my tunic and robe, pulled out some of the hair from my head and beard, and sat down devastated.
I gave My back to those who beat Me,
and My cheeks to those who tore out My beard.
I did not hide My face from scorn and spitting.
On that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates River—the king of Assyria—to shave the head, the hair on the legs, and to remove the beard as well.
