40. Hair Length of Brothers
There is a passage in Scripture that clearly
shows that God regards long hair on a male as something shameful and
disgraceful:
“Does not nature itself teach you that
for a man to wear long hair is degrading to him, but if a woman has long hair,
it is her pride? For her hair is given to her for a covering” (1 Cor.
11:14,15).
The contrasts between the hair lengths of males
and females is part of the divinely intended distinction God has placed between
the sexes. Males wearing very long hair, in effect, are appearing womanish, or
effeminate. They are blurring God’s guidelines. This conclusion ought not
to be dismissed lightly. Persons guilty of womanish conduct — effeminacy
— were regarded as an abomination in Israel (Deut. 22:5). In the New
Testament effeminacy is regarded as a sin so serious as to be placed alongside
fornication and homosexuality (1 Cor. 6:9).
