27 Bible Verses about Holiness

But as he who hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation: For it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

Who would not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? For thou only art gracious: for all the nations shall come and worship before thee: for thy judgments are made manifest.

Who would not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? For thou only art gracious: for all the nations shall come and worship before thee: for thy judgments are made manifest.

But ye are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a purchased people, that ye may shew forth the virtues of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: Who in time past were not a people, but now are the people of God;

That he may establish your hearts unblameable in holiness (before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ) with all his saints.

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

For ye were once darkness, but now ye are light in the Lord:

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering:

But as he who hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation: For it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

Therefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, and touch not the unclean person, saith the Lord, and I will receive you, And will be to you a Father, and ye shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated, conformable to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren.

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

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus,

he hath now reconciled, By the body of his flesh, through death, to present you holy, and spotless, and unreproveable in his sight:

That he may establish your hearts unblameable in holiness (before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ) with all his saints.

not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus, before the world began;

For God hath not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness.

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the apostle and high-priest of our profession,

If any man destroy the temple of God, him shall God destroy: for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

But as he who hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation: For it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

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

As obedient children, not conforming yourselves to your former desires, in your ignorance; But as he who hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation: For it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

For such an high priest became us, holy, harmless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens:

For even hereunto are ye called; for Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye might follow his steps: Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:

Sanctify them thro' the truth: thy word is truth.

All scripture is inspired of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness; That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

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

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

For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, arrogant, proud, evil-speakers,

Knowing this, that the law doth not lie against a righteous man; but against the lawless and disobedient, against the ungodly and sinners, the unholy and prophane, against killers of their fathers or their mothers, against murderers,

Hereby is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit: so shall ye be my disciples.

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

Seeing then all these things are dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

But as he who hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation:

For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated, conformable to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren.

As he hath chosen us through him, before the foundation of the world, that we might be holy and blameless before him in love,

My brethren, count it all joy, when ye fall into divers temptations, Knowing that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have it's perfect work,

For they, verily, for a few days chastned us as they thought good: but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

That the aged women in like manner, be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things:

For the saving grace of God hath appeared to all men, Teaching us, that, having renounced ungodliness and all wordly desires, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present world,

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

I speak as a man, because of the weakness of your flesh. As ye have presented your members servants to uncleanness and iniquity, unto iniquity, so now present your members servants of righteousness, unto holiness.

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

I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them whom 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, unless ye abide in me.

Ye are witnesses and God, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved among you that believe:

For God hath not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness.

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

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify it (having cleansed it by the washing of water) through the word: That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing, that it may be holy and unblamable.

He that is unrighteous, let him be unrighteous 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.

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

Let no one despise thy youth; but be a pattern to them that believe, in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

And to put on the new man, which is created after God, in righteousness and true holiness.

Yet she shall be saved in child-bearing, if they continue in faith, and love, and holiness, with sobriety.

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

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

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

Seeing then all these things are dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

That he would grant us, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, to serve him without fear, In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.

But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

For thus the holy women also of old time who trusted in God, adorned themselves,

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

But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

Give not that which is holy to dogs, neither cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turning, rend you.

I do not pray, that thou wouldest take them out of the world, but that thou wouldest keep them from the evil one.

Sanctify them thro' the truth: thy word is truth.

But a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, prudent, just, holy, temperate, Holding fast the faithful word,

For Herod reverenced John, knowing that he was a just and holy man, and preserved him: and when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly.

As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, who have been since the world began: That we should be saved from our enemies,

to serve him without fear, In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.

That the aged women in like manner, be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things:

For Herod reverenced John, knowing that he was a just and holy man, and preserved him: and when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly.

Wherefore, beloved, seeing ye look for these things, labour to be found of him in peace, without spot and blameless.

Seeing then all these things are dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

Therefore we are ambitious, whether present, or absent, to be well-pleasing to him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that every one may receive according to what he hath done in the body, whether good or evil.

But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

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