69 Bible Verses about Holiness, Believers' Growth In

And now I chose and I consecrated this house for my name to be there even to forever: and mine eyes and my heart were there all the days.

And Jehovah will say to him, I heard thy supplication and thy prayer which thou didst supplicate before me: I consecrated this house which thou didst build to put my name there even to forever; and mine eyes and my heart were there all the days.

For six days Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all which is in them, and he will rest in the seventh day: for this Jehovah praised the seventh day and consecrated it.

And ye shall give fire in them and put upon them incense, before Jehovah to-morrow: and it was the man whom Jehovah shall choose, he is holy: much to you, ye sons of Levi.

My sons, now ye shall not go astray: for in you Jehovah chose to stand before him, to serve him, to be serving to him, and burning incense.

And Jehovah inherited Judah his portion upon the holy land, and he yet chose Jerusalem.

For thou a holy people to Jehovah thy God: in thee Jehovah thy God chose to be to him a people of property from all the peoples which are upon the face of the earth.

As he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, for us to be holy and blameless before him in love:

For thou a holy people to Jehovah thy God, and Jehovah chose in thee to be to him for a people of acquisition above all people which are upon the face of the earth.

To all being in Rome, beloved of God, called holy: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Put on therefore, as the chosen of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassions, kindnesses, humility, meekness, longsuffering;

According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the consecration of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and peace, be multiplied.

A burnt-offering of continuance for your generations at the door of the tent of appointment before Jehovah, where I will meet with you there, to speak to thee there. And I met with the sons of Israel there; and it shall be consecrated by my glory.

And Jehovah will see that he turned aside to see, and God will call to him from the midst of the bramble, and he will say, Moses, Moses! And he will say, Behold me. And he will say, Thou shalt not draw near hither; draw off thy shoes from thy feet, for the place which thou standest upon it, this is holy land.

And Moses will say to Jehovah, The people shall not be able to come up to mount Sinai, for thou didst protest to us, saying, Set bounds to the mountain, and consecrate it

And when Solomon finished to pray, and the fire will come down from the heavens and consume the burnt-offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of Jehovah filled the house. And the priests were not able to come in to the house of Jehovah, for the glory of Jehovah filled the house of Jehovah.

And now if hearing, ye shall hear to my voice, and watch my covenant, and ye were to me wealth above all peoples, for to me is all the earth. And ye shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These the words which thou shalt speak to the sons of Israel.

Jehovah will raise thee up to him for a holy people, as he sware to thee, when thou shalt watch the commands of Jehovah thy God and go in his ways.

And I cut out to them a covenant of peace; it shall be an eternal covenant with them: and I gave them, and I multiplied them, and I gave my holy place in the midst of them forever. And my dwelling was with them, and I was to them for God, and they shall be to me for a people. And the nations shall know that I am Jehovah consecrating Israel in my holy place, being in the midst of them forever.

And ye a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for acquisition; so that ye should proclaim the excellencies of him having called you out of darkness into his wonderful light:

And the same God of peace consecrate you perfectly compete; and your whole spirit and soul and body be kept faultless to the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And ye watched my laws, and ye did them: I Jehovah consecrating you.

And it was he being left in Zion and he remaining in Jerusalem, he shall say to him holy, all being written for their life in Jerusalem. When Jehovah washed out the excrements of the daughters of Zion, and he shall cleanse the blood of Jerusalem from her midst with the spirit of judgment, and with the spirit of burning.

And I sprinkled clean waters upon you, and ye were cleansed: from all your uncleannesses and from all your blocks will I cleanse you.

Be silent from the face of the Lord Jehovah: for the day of Jehovah is near, for Jehovah prepared a swam he consecrated his called ones.

And separated nothing between us and also them, by faith having purified their hearts.

For be consecrating and they being consecrated all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

Take the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel, and cleanse them. And thus thou shalt do to them, to cleanse them: sprinkle upon them the water of sin, and they caused a razor to pass over upon all their flesh, and they washed their garments, and they were cleansed.

And Moses will come down from the mount to the people, and he will consecrate the people; and they will wash their garments.

And a clean man gathered up the ashes of the heifer, and put without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be to the assembly of the sons of Israel for a preservation for a water of uncleanness: it is sin.

And the priests and the Levites will be purified, and they will purify the people and the gates and the wall

And the Levites shall place their hands upon the head of the bullocks: and they did the one a sin, and the one a burnt-offering to Jehovah, to expiate for the Levites. And cause the Levites to stand before Aaron and before his sons, and lift them up a lifting up to Jehovah. And separate the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel and the Levites were to me.

And do to Aaron and to his sons, thus according to all which I commanded thee: seven days shalt thou fill their hand. And the bullock of sin, thou shalt do in the day of expiations, and make an atonement upon the altar in thy making an atonement upon its and anoint it to consecrate it Seven days thou shalt expiate upon the altar, and consecrate it; and it was the holy altar of holies: all touching upon the altar shall be holy.

And he will bring near the bullock of sin: and Aaron and his sons will place their hands upon the head of the bullock of sin. And he will slaughter; and Moses will take the blood and give upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and he will purify the altar, and he will sour out the blood at the foundation of the altar, and he will consecrate it to expiate upon it

And from the assembly of the sons of Israel he shall take two he goats of the goats for sin, and one ram for a burnt-offering. And Aaron brought near the bullock of sin, which was to him, and he expiated for himself and for his house. And he took the two he goats and made them stand before Jehovah, at the door of the tent of appointmentread more.
And Aaron gave lots upon the two he goats; one lot for Jehovah, and one lot for the goat set apart. And Aaron brought the he goat which upon it came up the lot for Jehovah, and he did it for the sin. And the he goat which upon it came up the lot for the goat set apart, shall stand living before Jehovah, to expiate upon him, to send him for a goat set apart to the desert

And Moses will take the oil of anointing, and will anoint the dwelling and all which is in it, and he will consecrate them. And he will sprinkle from it upon the altar seven times, and anoint the altar and all its vessels, and the wash-basin, and its foot, to consecrate them. And he will pour out from the oil of anointing upon the head. of Aaron, and anoint him to consecrate him.

And take from the blood that is upon the altar, and of the oil of anointing, and sprinkle upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be consecrated, and his garments and the garments of his sons with him.

And take the oil of anointing, and anoint the dwelling and all that is in it, and consecrate it, and all its vessels: and it was holy.

In which will we are consecrated by the bringing in of the body of Jesus Christ once.

Husbands, love your own wives, as also Christ loved the church, and delivered himself up for it; That he might consecrate it, having cleansed by the washing of water in the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing: but that it be holy and blameless.

In the body of his flesh by death, to present you holy, and blameless, and irreproachable before him:

Who being the brightness of glory, and the figure of his foundation, and bearing all things by the word of his power, having made by himself the purification of our sins, he sat down on the right hand of the Majesty among the highest ones;

For if the blood of bulls and he-goats, and the ashes of a heifer besprinkling the polluted, consecrates to the purity of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the eternal Spirit offered himself blameless to God, purify your consciousness from dead works to serve the living God?

For by one offering has he perfected forever the consecrated.

Wherefore also Jesus, that he might consecrate the people by his own blood, suffered without the camp.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have communion with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from every sin.

And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.

To the church of God being in Corinth, to the consecrated in Christ Jesus, to the Called holy ones, with all calling upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

And ye are of him in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and also justice, and consecration, and holiness:

And we ought to return thanks to God always for you, brethren dearly beloved by the Lord, that God chose you from the beginning to salvation in consecration of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

Jesus says to him, Truly, truly, I say to thee, Except any one be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot come into the kingdom of God. That born of flesh is flesh; and that born of the Spirit is spirit. Thou shouldest not wonder that I said to thee, Ye must be born from above.read more.
The wind, where it wills, blows, and its voice thou hearest, but thou knowest not whence it comes, and where it goes: so is every one having been born of the Spirit.

For me to be the, workman of Jesus Christ to the nations, offering in sacrifice the good news of God, that the bringing forward of the nations be acceptable, consecrated in the Holy Spirit.

And these were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were consecrated, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

But God has not called you to uncleanness, but in consecration. For surely therefore he despising, despises not man, but God, he also giving his holy Spirit for us.

Not of works in justice which we did; but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and the renovation of the Holy Spirit;

If we acknowledge our sins, he is faithful and just that he let go sins to us, and cleanse us from all injustice.

And in these things being finished, the chiefs came near to me, saying, The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites were not separated from the people of the lands according to their abominations, to the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, the Ammonite, the Moabite, the Egyptian and the imorite. For they took from their daughters to themselves and to their sons: and the holy seed mingled themselves with the people of the lands: and the hand of the chiefs and the prophets was the first in this transgression. And in my hearing this word I rent my garment and my robe, and I shall pluck off from the hair of my head and my beard, and I shall sit down, being astonished.read more.
And to me all will assemble, trembling at the word of the God of Israel for the transgression of the exile; and I sat astonished till the sacrifice of the evening. And at the sacrifice of the evening I rose up from my humbling; and in my rending my garment and my robe and I shall bend upon my knees and spread forth my hands to Jehovah my God. And saying, My God, I was ashamed and disgraced to lift up my face, O my God, to thee: for our iniquities were multiplied over the head, and our guilt was magnified even to the heavens. From the days of our fathers we are in a great trespass even to this day; and in our iniquities we were given, we, our kings, our priests, into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity and to plunder, and to shame of face as this day.

And as Ezra prayed, and as he confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there were gathered to him from Israel a very great convocation of men and women and children: for the people wept a great weeping. And Shecaniah son of Jehiel, from the sons of Elam, will answer and say to Ezra, We transgressed against our God, and we were dwelling with strange wives from the people of the land: and now there is hope to Israel concerning this. And now we will cut out a covenant to our God to bring forth all the wives, and those being born of them upon the counsel of my lord, and of those trembling at the command of our God; and according to the law it shall be done.read more.
Arise; for to thee the word, and we with thee: be strong and do.

To the overseer: chanting to David; In the coming to him of Nathan the prophet, when he went in to Bathsheba. Compassionate me, O God, according to thy mercy: according to the Multitude of thy compassions wipe away my transgressions. Multiply to wash me from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I shall know my transgression, and my sin is always before me.read more.
Against thee, thee alone, did I sin, and I did evil in thine eyes: so that thou wilt be justified in thy speaking, and thou wilt be pure in thy judging. Behold, I was born in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. Behold, thou didst delight in truth in the reins, and in bidden things thou wilt cause me to know wisdom. Thou wilt purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: thou wilt wash me and I shall be white above snow. Thou wilt cause me to hear joy and gladness; the bones thou didst break shall rejoice. Hide thy face from my sin, and wipe away all mine iniquities. Create for me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit in my midst,

And Peter said to them, Repent, and be each of you immersed in the name of Jesus Christ for remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

So also ye reckon yourselves truly to be dead to sin, and living to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Therefore let not sin reign in your mortal body, to listen to it in its passions. Neither present ye your members weapons of injustice to sin: but present yourselves to God, as living from the dead, and your members weapons of justice to God.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse the hands, ye sinful; and purify the hearts, ye double souled.

For we in spirit by faith expect the hope of justice.

For the justice of God in it is revealed from faith to faith: as has been written, And the just shall live by faith. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven upon all profanation and injustice of men, of those detaining the truth in injustice;

Having purified your souls in the hearing of the truth by the Spirit to unfeigned brotherly love, out of pure hearts love ye one another cordially:

In what shall a youth cleanse his way? To watch according to thy word.

Render them holy in thy truth: thy word is truth.

Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, ye are servants to whom ye listen; either of sin to death, or of obedience to justice? And grace to God, that ye were servants of sin, but ye listened from the heart to the type of teaching in which ye were delivered. And freed from sin, ye were subdued to justice.read more.
(I speak as man through the weakness of your flesh:) for as ye presented your members to uncleanness and iniquity; so now present ye your members servants to justice for consecration.