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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Questions and Answers on Genesis
53-0729 §32
I had a hot one on that, down the other day at Shreveport. They was talking about the women, and should women wear long hair. And I said, "A woman that bobbed her hair, her husband had a right---and a Bible right---to divorce her." That's right. That's what the Bible says. That's exactly right. Oh, my! Holy Ghost women sitting there. Just the way they been taught, that's all, see. Yes, that's slipped loosely. He said, "Now, if they would cut it, if there's something wrong they have to cut their hair," said, "let th...
Questions and Answers, Part 3
64-0830M §115
QUESTION: Brother Branham, please explain I Corinthians---I Corinthians 11 and verse 4 through 6. Does not this mean a separate covering from the hair, or is the long hair the only covering we need? (Get me I Corinthians 11. Let's see, I Corinthians 11:4.) It says when praying ... (Oh, yeah. They got it here. They say,) In praying or prophesying can we take our hair---can we ... (Let's see, they got a line drawed through something here.) When prophesying can we take our hair when we ... (You say,) Can we take our h...
Questions and Answers, Part 4
64-0830E §72
If a woman has got real thin hair, and she wants to wear one of those "rats" or ever what you call it, I think that's... My wife wears it. It's a... She says her hair's thin, and she's got some kind of a thing about that big around, looks like a great big, oversized biscuit. And she wraps her hair around that and pins the pins in it. And now, as far as I'm concerned, that don't bother anything as long as your hair is long. A minister said his wife was condemned, because she had a tint in her hair. And I found out f...
Acts of the Holy Spirit
54-1219E §33
Now, when these stones come together... They was cut out all over the world in different places. The wood hauled down from the tall cedars of Lebanon, was cut and brought to Joppa by ox-cart, and on in by so forth, by raft till they come to make the temple. But when they come together... I want you to notice. One stone was cut this way, another stone cut another way. Perhaps, when the masons were cutting them, they might have argued and fussed, and everything else. Like a bunch of preachers does today, "I'm the Met...
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever
58-0312 §21
Now remember, let's see how simple it is. What if I cut my hand tonight with a knife, and I fell down here on the platform dead. You taken me down to the undertaker establishment and they embalmed my body. Then you'd say, "Well, that finished your life." Now, it isn't... All the medicine in the world could not heal that cut in my hand. A medicine that would heal a cut on my hand, would heal a cut on my coat. It'd heal a cut on that floor. "Well," you say, "Brother Branham, medicine wasn't made for your coat or that...