If a Sister's Hair Is Woven, or Plaited or Matted in Cornrows but Not Cut, is She Covered?
1) Direct answer
Yes. If her own hair is uncut, she is covered. Braiding, plaiting, or cornrows do not remove the covering. But she should keep it modest and avoid adding false hair or making a show of it.
2) Scriptural explanation
- The Bible says, “Her hair is given her for a covering” (1 Corinthians 11:15). The covering God recognizes is a woman’s own hair.
- Paul warns against outward display: “not with braided hair… but with good works” and “not the plaiting of the hair” as an adornment (1 Timothy 2:9; 1 Peter 3:3). The point is modesty and a meek spirit, not elaborate styling that draws attention.
3) Simple clarifying logic
- The covering is not a cloth; it is the hair God gave her. If it’s uncut, she is covered.
- Cutting removes the sign of authority; styling does not.
- Simple braids for neatness can be modest; showy, elaborate plaits that advertise the flesh are not.
- Adding artificial hair, wigs, or weaves is not the God-given covering and turns it into outward adornment.
4) Reinforcing statement
Keep the hair God gave, uncut and modest. That’s the covering Scripture honors.
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What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
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The presence of God unrecognized
64-0618 §39
What is the woman's beauty and honor? Is her hair. That's the reason many of you woman today cut it all off. That's wrong. She took her hair, and began to wash his feet and wipe them, her pretty hair taking the stink off of Him upon herself, bearing his reproach. Oh, my! That's when you recognize who's in your presence. Our sisters would have to almost stand on their head to get enough hair to do that. So there, she washed his feet and wiped them with the hairs of her head, and she kissed his feet.
From the beginning it wasn't so
59-1125 §55
But a little woman touched the border of His garment, Over in another land. But she believed Him. No doubt. She had a blood issue and she had probably sold all the implements off the farm and everything. And maybe her husband was gone, or the doctors could not help her any, and she had lost all that blood. She'd had it for a number of years. And she said within herself, "I'm just a little insignificant woman, but if I can touch His garment, I will be made whole." Because the garment that holds over that man that wa...
Questions and Answers, Part 4
64-0830E §73
And now, men... This person said this morning taking off their hair, putting it back on. Now, this kind of got here too, about a haircut, see. Now, if a man doesn't have hair, and his wife ... I've heard women say, "Well, if I could just get John ... I think he'd look better if he wore a hair piece. What do you think about it, Brother Branham? Is it wrong for him to do it?" No, sir! No, indeedy, it is not wrong, not at all. If he wants to wear it, that's fine, no more than wearing false teeth or whatever that come...
Be not afraid, it is I
61-0123 §10
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Faith once delivered to the saints
57-0610 §16
Brother, what this great church needs is back to the Word and back to God, the old-fashioned prayer meetings, and the old-fashioned singing, the old-fashioned Gospel, and back to an old-fashioned faith in God, a saving experience by the Son of God. The next evening at the little meeting in Mexico, some twenty thousand accepted Christ when they seen a little baby... The mother, a little Catholic woman, she was so frantic. They tell me she'd been in the audience since about three p.m. And her little baby, the day bef...