Reference: Holiness
Easton
in the highest sense belongs to God (Isa 6:3; Re 15:4), and to Christians as consecrated to God's service, and in so far as they are conformed in all things to the will of God (Ro 6:19,22; Eph 1:4; Tit 1:8; 1Pe 1:15). Personal holiness is a work of gradual development. It is carried on under many hindrances, hence the frequent admonitions to watchfulness, prayer, and perseverance (1Co 1:30; 2Co 7:1; Eph 4:23-24). (See Sanctification.)
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And this called to this, and said, Holy, holy, holy, Jehovah of armies: all the earth full of his glory.
(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.
And now freed from sin, and subdued to God, ye have your fruit to consecration, and the end life eternal.
And ye are of him in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and also justice, and consecration, and holiness:
As he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, for us to be holy and blameless before him in love:
And to be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And to put on the new man, created according to God in justice and sanctity of truth.
But hospitable, a lover of good, of sound mind, just, holy, holding firm;
Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou alone holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy justices were made manifest.
Hastings
HOLINESS
I. IN OT
The Heb. words connected with the Semitic root qdsh (those connected with the root chrm may be left out of the inquiry: cf. art. Ban), namely, q
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And make it an oil a holy anointing, a perfumed unguent the work of the perfumer: it shall be an oil a holy anointing. And anoint the tent of appointment, and the ark of the testimony, read more. And the table and all its vessels and the chandelier and its vessels, and the altar of incense,
And the table and all its vessels and the chandelier and its vessels, and the altar of incense,
And the table and all its vessels and the chandelier and its vessels, and the altar of incense,
And pound fine from it to small dust, and give from it before the testimony in the tent of appointment where I will meet with thee there: holy of holies, shall it be to you.
And a man, a man from the house of Israel, and from the stranger sojourning in the midst of you, who shall eat any blood; and I gave my face against the soul eating the blood, and I cut it off from the midst of its people.
Speak to the assembly of the sons of Israel, and say to them, Ye shall be holy, for I Jehovah your God am holy.
Speak to the assembly of the sons of Israel, and say to them, Ye shall be holy, for I Jehovah your God am holy. Ye shall fear each his mother and his father, and my Sabbaths ye shall watch: I am Jehovah your God.
And in your reaping the harvest of your land thou shalt not finish to reap the extremity of thy field, and thou shalt not gather the gleaning of thy harvest
Ye shall not steal and ye shall not deceive, and ye shall not lie each to his neighbor.
Ye shall not steal and ye shall not deceive, and ye shall not lie each to his neighbor.
Thou shalt not oppress thy neighbor, and thou shalt not rob: the wages of the hireling shall not remain with thee till morning. Thou shalt not curse the deaf, and before the blind thou shalt not give a stumbling block, and thou shalt fear thy God: I Jehovah.
Thou shalt not avenge thyself nor keep anger with the sons of thy people, and didst love thy neighbor as thyself. I Jehovah. My laws shall ye watch: thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with two diverse kinds: thy field thou shalt not sow with two diverse kinds; and a garment of two diverse kinds (of linen and woolen) shall not come upon thee.
And when ye shall come into the land, and ye planted every tree of food, and ye made uncircumcised in its uncircumcision its fruits: three years it shall be to you uncircumcised: it shall not be eaten.
Ye shall not eat with the blood: ye shall not take auguries, and ye shall not practise magic.
From the face of gray hair thou shalt rise up, and thou shalt honor the face of the old man, and thou shalt be afraid of thy God: I Jehovah.
As the native among you shall be to you the stranger sojourning with you; thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I Jehovah your God.
Just balances, just stones, a just ephah, and a just hin shall be to you: I Jehovah your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
And I will give my face against that man and cut him off from the midst of his people; for he gave from his seed to Molech, in order to defile my holy place and to profane my holy name.
When a man, a man who shall lightly esteem his father and his mother, dying, he shall die: he lightly esteemed ha father and his mother: his blood is upon him.
And a man who shall lie with his father's wife, uncovered his father's nakedness: dying, they shall die: they two their blood is upon them,
And a man who shall lie with a woman being sick, and uncovered her nakedness; he made naked her fountain, and she uncovered the fountain of her blood: and they two were cut off from the midst of their people.
And Jehovah will say to Moses, Say to the priests the sons of Aaron, and say to them, for the soul he shall not be defiled among his peoples. But if for his remainder coming near to him, for his mother and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother, read more. And for his sister, a virgin, coming near to him, who was not for a husband for her, he shall be defiled. A chief among his people shall not be defiled, to profane himself. With baldness, they shall not make baldness upon their head, and they shall not shave the extremity of their beard: and in their flesh they shall not cut incisions. They shall be holy to their God, and profane not the name of their God: for the sacrifices of Jehovah, and the bread of their God they bring: and they were holy.
They shall be holy to their God, and profane not the name of their God: for the sacrifices of Jehovah, and the bread of their God they bring: and they were holy. They shall not take a woman, a harlot, or profane; and they shall not take a wife driven away from her husband, for he is holy to his God. read more. And he consecrated him, for he bringing the bread of thy God: holy shall he be to thee: for I Jehovah consecrating you am holy, And the daughter of a man a priest, if she shall be profaned to commit fornication, it is profaning her father: she shall be burnt in fire. And the great priest from his brethren which the anointing oil shall be poured upon his head, and he filled his hand to put on the garments, his head he shall not uncover, and his garments he shall not rend. And to an dead soul he shall not come, for his father, and for his mother, he shall not be defiled. And from the holy place he shall not go forth, and he shall not profane the holy place of his God; for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him I Jehovah. And he shall take a wife in her virginity. A widow, and the driven away, and profane, and an harlot, those he shall not take: but a virgin of his people shall he take a wife. And he shall not profane his seed among his people; for I Jehovah consecrating him.
For to me all the first-born among the sons of Israel among man and among cattle: in the day I struck every first-born in the land of Egypt I consecrated them to me.
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.
And if thou shalt announce this our word, and we were free from thine oath which thou didst cause us to swear.
And the priest will give to him the holy, for there was not there bread except the bread of the face, being taken away from before Jehovah to put hot bread in the day of taking it
And they will bring up the ark of Jehovah, and the tent of appointment, and all the holy vessels which were in the tent, and the priests and the Levites will bring them up.
And she will say to her husband, Behold now, I knew that he is a holy man of God, passing by us continually.
And the chiefs of the people dwelt in Jerusalem: and the rest of the people cast lots to bring one from ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine hands in the cities.
Jehovah is in his holy temple; Jehovah, in the heavens his throne: his eyes will behold, his eyelashes will try the sons of man.
Now I knew that Jehovah saved his Messiah; he will answer him from his holy heavens by the strength of the salvation of his right hand.
God reigned over the nations; God sat upon his holy throne.
Thou wilt not cast me away from thy face, and thou wilt not take thy holy spirit from me.
God being greatly terrible in the council of the holy ones and to be feared by all round about him.
Chanting. Sing ye to Jehovah a new song, for he did wonders: his right hand saved for him, and his holy arm.
Jehovah is great in Zion, and he was raised up over all peoples. They shall praise thy great and terrible name: he is holy.
And this called to this, and said, Holy, holy, holy, Jehovah of armies: all the earth full of his glory.
And saying, Wo to me! for I was cut off; because I a man of unclean lips, and in the midst of a people of unclean lips I dwell: for mine eyes saw the king, Jehovah of armies.
And a highway was there, and a way, and it shall be called to it, A way of holiness; the unclean one shall not pass through it; and it is for them; he going the way, and the foolish shall not err.
Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion; put on the garments of thy glory, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for the uncircumcised shall no more add to come into thee, and the unclean.
For thus said the high and lifted up inhabiting eternity, and his name Holy; being lifted up, and I will dwell in the holy place, and with the broken and humble of spirit, to preserve alive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the broken.
They embittered and grieved his holy spirit; and he will turn to them for an enemy; he fought against them.
If a man shall lift up holy flesh in the wing of his garment and touch with the wing of his garment upon the bread and upon pottage, and upon wine and upon oil, and upon any food, shall it be made holy? And the priests shall answer and say, No.
And Jehovah inherited Judah his portion upon the holy land, and he yet chose Jerusalem.
Then the devil takes him into the holy city, and sets him upon the small wing of the temple;
Let alone; what to us and thee, Jesus thou Nazarene? hast thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy of God.
For Herod feared John, knowing him a just and holy man, and he observed him: and having heard him, did many things, and heard him cheerfully.
And the messenger having answered, said to her, The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: wherefore also the holy thing born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
For the powerful one has done great things for me; and his name holy.
To serve him in sanctity and justice before him all the days of our life.
Saying, Let alone; what to us and thee, Jesus Nazarene? hast thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy of God.
And we have believed, and known, that thou art Christ, Son of the living God.
And I am no more in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. O holy Father, keep them in thy name whom thou but given me, that they might be one, as we.
For thou wilt not leave my soul in hades neither wilt thou give thy sanctified one to see corruption.
And ye denied the Holy and Just, and demanded a man, a murderer, to be yielded to you.
And ye denied the Holy and Just, and demanded a man, a murderer, to be yielded to you.
For against the truth were they gathered together against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou didst anoint, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the nations and peoples of Israel,
In thy stretching out thy hand for healing; and signs and wonders to be for the name of thine holy child Jesus.
And that he raised him from the dead, no more about to return to corruption, so he said, That I will give you the holy, faithful things of David.
Determined the Son of God in power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the rising up of the dead of Jesus Christ our Lord:
(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.
And now freed from sin, and subdued to God, ye have your fruit to consecration, and the end life eternal.
For the unbelieving husband was consecrated in the wife, and the unbelieving wife was consecrated in the husband: for then are our children unclean; and now are they holy.
Do ye not know that they working consecrated things, eat of the temple? they working diligently at the altar, share together with the altar?
For our boasting is this, the testimony of our consciousness, that in simplicity and purity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we turned back in the world, and more eminently to you.
As he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, for us to be holy and blameless before him in love:
And to put on the new man, created according to God in justice and sanctity of truth.
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.
Paul and Timotheus, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the holy in Christ Jesus at Philippi, with the overseers and servants:
In the body of his flesh by death, to present you holy, and blameless, and irreproachable before him:
I will therefore men shall pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without anger and reasoning.
But hospitable, a lover of good, of sound mind, just, holy, holding firm;
The aged women likewise, becoming holy in a serene state of mind, not accusers, not slaves to much wine, teachers of good;
These things speak, and beseech, and reprove with all order. Let none despise thee.
All they with me greet thee. Greet them loving us in the faith. Grace with you all. Amen.
For such a chief priest became us, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and being higher than the heavens;
For such a chief priest became us, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and being higher than the heavens;
For the first tent was prepared; (in which was the chandelier, and table, and the setting up of the loaves;) which is called holy. And after the second veil, the tent called Holy of Holies;
This the Holy Spirit designating, the way of the holies had not yet been made manifest, the first tent yet having a standing:
For Christ came not into the holy places made with hands, the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to be shown clearly to the face of God for us:
Having therefore, brethren, freedom of speech for the entering in of the holies by the blood of Jesus,
For they truly for a few days, according as it seemed to them, corrected; but he for profit, in order to partake in his holiness.
Follow peace with all, and consecration, without which none shall see the Lord:
And to the messenger of the church in Philadelphia write; Thus says the holy, the true, he having the key of David, he opening, and no one shuts; and he shuts, and no one opens;
And the four living creatures, one by itself, had six wings together round about; and within full of eyes; and they have no rest day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God, the Omnipotent Ruler, who was, and who being, and who coming.
Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou alone holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy justices were made manifest.
And I heard the angel of the waters saying, Just, O Lord, art thou, who being, and who was, and who wilt be, for thou didst judge these things.
Morish
Holiness has been described as "a nature that delights in purity, and which repels evil." Adam and Eve were 'innocent,' not holy; for though they might have delighted in purity, they did not repel the evil of Satan. God is ever holy; in heaven there is no evil to separate from, and He was holy, consistent with His perfection in everything, before there was any evil. The Spirit is the Holy Spirit though He is down here where sin is, and the Lord Jesus when in this sinful world was holy, harmless, and undefiled. God is called 'the Holy One of Israel,' Isa 30:15, etc., and the Lord Jesus 'the Holy One.' Mr 1:24; Ac 3:14.
The Israelites having been redeemed out of Egypt, and separated to God, it was said to them, "Thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth." De 7:6. They were viewed as the chosen of God, as set apart for Him. This should have led to practical holiness, as God said, "Be ye holy, for I am the Lord your God." Le 20:7. The Christian also is sanctified and justified, and Christ is made of God sanctification to him (1Co 1:30), referring to the separative call of God, and the means and measure of his sanctification. As new created in Christ he partakes of the divine nature, so that holiness is followed. He is chastened also by the Father of spirits in order to his being partaker of God's holiness.
One has said, "The Christian is called holy because he is set apart for God absolutely, according to the rights won by Christ in His death, and made good when he is born again, and thus set apart in a real way; and more perfectly, and with more intelligence, when he is sealed by the Holy Ghost, as cleansed by the blood of Christ." Upon this are based the practical exhortations: "As he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation." 2Co 7:1; 1Th 4:7; Heb 12:14; 1Pe 1:15; 2Pe 3:11.
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And ye were consecrated and ye were holy: for I Jehovah your God.
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.
For thus said Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, In turning back and in rest shall ye be saved; in quiet and in trust shall be your strength, and ye would not.
Let alone; what to us and thee, Jesus thou Nazarene? hast thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy of God.
And ye denied the Holy and Just, and demanded a man, a murderer, to be yielded to you.
And ye are of him in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and also justice, and consecration, and holiness:
Therefore having these declarations, dearly let us cleanse ourselves from all defilements of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Follow peace with all, and consecration, without which none shall see the Lord: