27 Bible Verses about Holiness

but as he who hath called you is holy, be ye holy also in all your conduct: because it is written, "Be ye holy; for I am holy."

Who should not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? because thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee, because thy righteous judgments are made evident.

Who should not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? because thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee, because thy righteous judgments are made evident.

But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired by purchase; that ye should publish abroad the excellencies of him, who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

to the end that your hearts may be established blameless in holiness before God and our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.

I BESEECH you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

For ye were formerly darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light;

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering;

but as he who hath called you is holy, be ye holy also in all your conduct: because it is written, "Be ye holy; for I am holy."

"Wherefore go forth from the midst of them, and be ye separated, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean; and I will receive you, and I will be as a father unto you, and ye shall be to me for sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."

So then the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

For whom he foreknew, he predestinated also to a conformity with the image of his Son, that he might be the first-begotten among many brethren.

He who saith that he abideth in him, ought as he walked, even so himself to walk.

Let the same sentiment of mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

by the body of his flesh, through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and irreprehensible in his presence:

to the end that your hearts may be established blameless in holiness before God and our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.

who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before time had a beginning;

For God hath not called us unto impurity, but unto holiness.

WHEREFORE, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, contemplate the apostle and high-priest whom ye confess, Jesus Christ;

If any man prophane the temple of God, him will God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

but as he who hath called you is holy, be ye holy also in all your conduct: because it is written, "Be ye holy; for I am holy."

Earnestly seek peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

as obedient children, not conformed to the former passions of the days of your ignorance: but as he who hath called you is holy, be ye holy also in all your conduct: because it is written, "Be ye holy; for I am holy."

For such an high-priest was suitable to us, holy, inoffensive, spotless, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens:

For hereunto have ye been called, because Christ also hath suffered for you, leaving you a pattern, that ye should follow his steps; who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:

Sanctify them by thy truth: thy word is truth.

All scripture is given by the inspiration of God, and advantageous for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness that the man of God may be properly furnished, fully qualified for every good work.

Earnestly seek peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

For this ye know, that no whoremonger, or impure person, or avaricious, who is an idolater, hath an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

For men will be self-lovers, money-lovers, boasters, vainglorious, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

knowing this, that the law is not made for the just man, but for the lawless and disorderly, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for men-slayers,

Herein is my Father glorified, that ye should bring forth much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

filled with fruits of righteousness, which by Jesus Christ are to the glory and praise of God.

Seeing then that all these things must be dissolved, what manner of persons ought we to be in a course of holy conduct and acts of piety,

but as he who hath called you is holy, be ye holy also in all your conduct:

For whom he foreknew, he predestinated also to a conformity with the image of his Son, that he might be the first-begotten among many brethren.

as he hath elected us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him in love:

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into various trials; knowing that the proof of your faith produceth patience.

For they indeed for a few days as seemed proper to themselves corrected us; but he for our own advantage, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

That the elder women also be sacredly becoming in their behaviour, not slanderers, not enslaved by much wine, teachers of propriety;

For the grace of God which leads to salvation hath appeared unto all men, instructing us, that denying ungodliness and worldly affections, we should live soberly and righteously, and godly in the present day;

Neither present your members as weapons of unrighteousness for sin: but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as weapons of righteousness for God.

I speak humanly, because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have presented your members servants to impurity and iniquity for iniquity; so now present your members servants to righteousness for holiness.

For the love of Christ constraineth us, because we judge thus, that if one died for all, then were all dead: and he died for all, that they who live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him that died for them, and rose again.

I entreat for them: I make no request for the world; but for those thou hast given me; for they are thine.

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine: so neither can ye, except ye abide in me.

Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily, and justly, and faultlessly we conducted ourselves among you that believe:

For God hath not called us unto impurity, but unto holiness.

HAVING therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Husbands, love your own wives, as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; that he might sanctify it, purifying it in the laver of water by the word, that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having blemish, nor wrinkle, nor any such things; but that it may be holy and unblameable.

He that is unjust, let him be unjust still; and he that is filthy, let him be filthy still; and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still; and he that is holy, let him be holy still.

Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection; over these the second death hath no dominion: but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and they shall reign with him a thousand years.

Let no man despise thy youth; but be a pattern of the faithful, in discourse; in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

and put on the new man, which is created godlike, in righteousness and true holiness.

But she shall be saved through childbearing, if they abide in faith, and love, and holiness with sobriety.

I BESEECH you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renovation of your mind, that you may prove by experience what is the will of God, that is good, acceptable, and perfect.

Earnestly seek peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

I will then that men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands without wrath or doubting:

Seeing then that all these things must be dissolved, what manner of persons ought we to be in a course of holy conduct and acts of piety,

to give us, that we, secure from fear, rescued from the hands of our enemies, should serve him, in righteousness and holiness before him, all the days of our life.

But now being set at liberty from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and at the end life eternal.

For so in times of old the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands;

I BESEECH you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

But now being set at liberty from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and at the end life eternal.

Give not that which is holy to dogs, nor cast pearls before swine; lest they tread them under foot, and turning round tear you.

I entreat not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest preserve them from the wicked one.

Sanctify them by thy truth: thy word is truth.

but the stranger's host, the good man's friend, grave, just, holy, temperate;

for Herod feared John, knowing him to be a righteous and holy man; and paid great attention to him and when he heard him, did many things, and heard him with delight.

as he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been from the beginning:

in righteousness and holiness before him, all the days of our life.

That the elder women also be sacredly becoming in their behaviour, not slanderers, not enslaved by much wine, teachers of propriety;

for Herod feared John, knowing him to be a righteous and holy man; and paid great attention to him and when he heard him, did many things, and heard him with delight.

Wherefore, beloved, seeing ye are expecting these things, be diligent to be found of him in peace, spotless and blameless.

Seeing then that all these things must be dissolved, what manner of persons ought we to be in a course of holy conduct and acts of piety,

wherefore also our ambition is, that whether dwelling in the body, or out of the body, we may be acceptable to him. For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ, that each may receive the things done in the body according to what he hath done, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

But now being set at liberty from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and at the end life eternal.

Be not ye therefore partakers with them. For ye were formerly darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light; (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)