African Women Have Naturally Short Coiled and Kinky Hair. If They Do Not Cut it, are They Covered?
Yes. If a woman does not cut her hair and lets it grow as God gave it, she is covered—no matter the texture or how long it appears.
The Bible says, “If a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering” (1 Corinthians 11:15). And again, it warns that if she is “shorn or shaven” she dishonors her head (1 Corinthians 11:5–6). The issue in Scripture is not inches or a certain look—it’s whether the hair is cut off or allowed to grow. “Doth not even nature itself teach you…?” (1 Corinthians 11:14–15). God made different hair types among women, and He Himself gave woman her hair for a covering.
Now notice, the Word makes the contrast between shorn/shaven and long. Long means let it grow; shorn/shaven means cut off. So if a sister’s hair is naturally tight, coiled, or appears short, but she keeps it uncut, she is covered before God. He doesn’t judge by outward length measurements but by obedience to His order. If it’s uncut, it’s long to God. If it’s cut, it’s uncovered—no matter the texture.
So, keep the hair uncut as a sign of honor and submission to God’s Word. God looks at the obedience, not the inches.
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Going beyond the camp
64-0719E §19
For instance, I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings, but back and forth across the nation I have condemned women wearing short hair. That's the Bible. I've condemned women wearing shorts, using makeup; and every year it gets worse. It shows that there is another finger somewhere pointing them some other way. And they're not getting through to Christ. And they say, "We belong to a church; our church don't..." Don't make any difference what your church believes, God said, "It's wrong!" And if they did get through to...
Jehovah-Jireh, part 1
62-0705 §51
And the Bible said, "It's a dishonorable thing for a woman to cut her hair." She does it, she dishonors her head. She dishonors the angel, the angel of light. The seven church angels, the one bringing the light will stay with the Word. Dishonorable! She ought to have hair on her head. My, such! It used to be wrong for them to do it. In first Pentecost, it was wrong. What happened? You did run well, what happened? And some of our Pentecostal women dress in them dresses, look like a skin over a wiener, out here somew...
The Second Coming
55-0220A §46
...y seventeen different religions of India. Think of it: seventeen different religions, each one of them non-Christianity. They taken me to the temple of the Jains. Now, they have the Mohammedans, the Hindus, the Sikhs, the Jains, the Buddhas. Oh, my. Some of them sun worshippers, and some worship cows. The Jains... Now, I'll explain that, cause we was in their monastery. They can't cut their hair; they just pull it out with their fingers. They can't cut their beard, so they pull it with their fingers. And they had t...
Behold, a Greater than Solomon is here
62-0721 §18
...e people, I said, "Don't wait now until you go learn languages. Go tell everybody in your tribe." I've got newspaper clippings where ... I forget how many loads of firearms and things that they had stole, just in the Songhai tribe, brought them back. The mayor ... the paper of Durban packed it, that they were through with sin. And notice. Let me say something just ... not to be sacrilegious, but to be brotherly, and godly, and warningly to you. Them women standing there stark naked, with nothing but a clout on; and...
Trying to do God a service without it being God's will
65-1127B §63
He chooses His own person by His foreknowledge. Like He said in Romans 8 here, that Esau ... that the election of God might stand sure. That Esau and Jacob, both born of holy parents, twins, that His election might stand sure and true, He said, "I hate Esau, and love Jacob," before either boy was born. See? He knows what's in man, He knowed it from the beginning what it was, therefore He can make everything work just exactly on clock time. We get all nervous and flusterated; you never seen Him flusterated. They don...