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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Has the Lord spoken only to Moses?
53-1130 §22
I can prove by the Bible that any woman that'll bob her hair has a legal right in the sight of God for her husband to divorce her. That's the Scripture. Now, if you don't believe it, lay the question up here tomorrow night, and I will show you. That's right. That's right, but what do we do? The Bible says it's a common, sinful thing for a woman to pray with her hair cut short. That's right. And yet you put all this makeup on, but what does it do, friends? There's only one woman done that, and you know what God did...
Oneness
62-0211 §73
A woman wrote me a question the other day; she said, "Brother Branham..." Or, no, it was a man, a minister. He may be standing here this morning. He's just from Ohio. And he said, "We want to say the same thing you do, but we found something on your tapes that's not right." So Billy brought the letter to me. Said, "Something on your tapes," says, "is very contradictory, Brother Branham, to the Word of God. And we want to--we want to say the same thing." Said, "One question I want to say to you; that's I Corinthians...
And knoweth it not
65-0815 §79
Brother, Sister, let me tell you that's the only thing. Don't try to reason it out. Don't try to have long hair because I said so. Don't try to do these things just because in your flesh... Don't try to do it just to kind of cope up, but just wait before the Lord till something way down on the inside... Many of you think because you have long hair, that means you're going to go to heaven. That doesn't mean that. Many of them thinks, because you're a good moral woman, your going to... It don't mean that.
Questions and Answers (God being misunderstood)
61-0723E §27
QUESTION: "Brother Branham, in the I Corinthians, chapter ... the fourteenth, verse thirty fourth and thirty fifth, says, 'Let your women keep silent in churches for it is not permitted unto them to speak [thirty fifth], for it is a shame for women to speak in church.' Now, if a woman with short hair speaks in tongues in churches, in church, is it the Spirit of the Holy Ghost that speaks through her or is it a false spirit?" Now, you are... And this is a real hard question, and I can only answer it the best that I...
He swore by Himself
54-1212 §48
There's a lot of women here, and the woman is a marvelous thing. If God could have give a man anything better than a woman, He would have done so. But He give a woman. But this is a woman's world. She's running the whole thing. Not you housemothers here; but I mean out in the world. Let some little striptease out in Hollywood, starts to cut her hair some way, and watch all the girls cut their hair the same way. Or, they start some fad in dress, and watch all the girls do the same thing; Christians and all, so-calle...