Många ”bibeltrogna” motiverar ofta sitt förakt för långt hår på män genom att citera St. Paulus första brev till Korinth. Med tanke på detta så är följande information, skrivet av Constantine Cavarnos, intressant att läsa (även om han möjligen hör till en schismatisk gruppering) :
With regard to the hair [...de som är emot långt hår...] think that they have an unshakable argument for this in the First Epistle to the Corinthians, chapter 11, verse 14. This verse says: ”Doth not even nature itself teach you that if a man have long hair (koma), it is a shame unto him? But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her; for her hair is given to her for a covering?” They translate the verb koma as ”lets his hair grow long.” But this is only part of its meaning. Koma has the additional meaning ”he adorns his hair.” As for the length of the hair, we cannot deduce from this passage that [...män...] ought to cut their hair in the contemporary fashion of laymen, leaving the nape of the neck bare. What it obviously condemns is men in general [...] leaving their hair completely uncut, so that it falls low to the waist, as women formerly did, and adorning it.
