30 Bible Verses about Making People Holy

"You are to speak to the people of Israel and say, 'Above all you shall keep my Sabbaths, for this is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I, the LORD, sanctify you.

Keep my statutes and do them; I am the LORD who sanctifies you.

that he may not profane his offspring among his people, for I am the LORD who sanctifies him."

but he shall not go through the veil or approach the altar, because he has a blemish, that he may not profane my sanctuaries, for I am the LORD who sanctifies them."

and so cause them to bear iniquity and guilt, by eating their holy things: for I am the LORD who sanctifies them."

And you shall not profane my holy name, that I may be sanctified among the people of Israel. I am the LORD who sanctifies you,

Moreover, I gave them my Sabbaths, as a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

They shall therefore keep my charge, lest they bear sin for it and die thereby when they profane it: I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the LORD your God.

They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God. For they offer the LORD's food offerings, the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.

They shall not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been defiled, neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.

Your decrees are very trustworthy; holiness befits your house, O LORD, forevermore.

Then the nations will know that I am the LORD who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore."

And he said to me, "This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, in order not to bring them out into the outer court and so transmit holiness to the people."

gather the people. Consecrate the congregation; assemble the elders; gather the children, even nursing infants. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber.

"Consecrate to me all the firstborn. Whatever is the first to open the womb among the people of Israel, both of man and of beast, is mine."

(as it is written in the Law of the Lord, "Every male who first opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord")

the LORD said to Moses, "Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments

So Moses went down from the mountain to the people and consecrated the people; and they washed their garments.

And say to the people, 'Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat, for you have wept in the hearing of the LORD, saying, "Who will give us meat to eat? For it was better for us in Egypt." Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you shall eat.

Get up! Consecrate the people and say, 'Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow; for thus says the LORD, God of Israel, "There are devoted things in your midst, O Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted things from among you."

Then Joshua said to the people, "Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you."

"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations."

And you shall put them on Aaron your brother, and on his sons with him, and shall anoint them and ordain them and consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests.

"Now this is what you shall do to them to consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests. Take one bull of the herd and two rams without blemish,

And he poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head and anointed him to consecrate him. And Moses brought Aaron's sons and clothed them with coats and tied sashes around their waists and bound caps on them, as the LORD commanded Moses.

Then you shall take part of the blood that is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and his garments, and on his sons and his sons' garments with him. He and his garments shall be holy, and his sons and his sons' garments with him.

and put on Aaron the holy garments. And you shall anoint him and consecrate him, that he may serve me as priest.

Also let the priests who come near to the LORDconsecrate themselves, lest the LORDbreak out against them."

And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts." Thus Job did continually.