30 Bible Verses about Making People Holy
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Speak to the people of Israel. Say: 'You must observe my Sabbaths. This is a sign between you and me throughout your generations that you may know that I am Jehovah, the one who sanctifies you.
He must not dishonor his children among his people because I, Jehovah, set him apart as holy.
However, he must never come up to the canopy or to the altar, since he has a physical defect. He must never dishonor the holy places because I, Jehovah, set them apart as holy.'
by letting any unauthorized people eat them. This would bring guilt and punishment on such people. I am Jehovah and I make the offerings holy.'
Never dishonor my holy name. I will show my holiness among the Israelites. I am Jehovah, who sets you apart as holy.
I also gave them certain days to worship me as a sign between us so that they would know that I, Jehovah, made them holy.
All priests must observe the regulations that I have given. Otherwise, they will become guilty and die, because they have disobeyed the sacred regulations. I am Jehovah and I make them holy.
Be God's holy men. Do not dishonor the name of your God. Be holy because you bring sacrifices by fire to Jehovah. It is the food (bread) of your God.
Never marry prostitutes, those who have lost their virginity, or divorced women because a priest is God's holy man.
Your testimonies are very sure: holiness adorns your house, O Jehovah, forever.
Then the nations will know that I, Jehovah, have set Israel apart as holy, because my holy place will be among them permanently.'
He said to me: This is the place where the priests must boil the meat for the guilt offering and the offering for sin. This is the place where they must bake grain offerings so that they do not have to bring the offerings into the outer courtyard. This way they will not transfer holiness to the people.
Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts. Let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
Consecrate (appoint) (sanctify) all the first-born males to me. Every first-born male Israelite and every first-born male animal belongs to me!
It is written in God's law that every male that opens the womb shall be called holy to God. (Exodus 13:1, 2)
Jehovah continued: Go to the people and tell them to spend today and tomorrow purifying themselves for worship. They must wash their clothes.
Moses went down from the mountain to the people. He consecrated the people, and they washed their garments.
Tell the people: 'Purify yourselves for tomorrow. You will have meat to eat! Jehovah has heard you whining and saying that you wished you had some meat and that you were better off in Egypt. Jehovah will now give you meat, and you will have to eat it.
Get up and sanctify the people. Say: 'Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow: for the Sovereign Lord Jehovah says: There is an accursed thing in the midst of you, O Israel: You cannot stand before you enemies until you take away the devoted thing from among you.
Joshua said to the people: Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow Jehovah will do amazing things among you.
Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I set you apart for my holy purpose. I appointed you to be a prophet to the nations.
Dress your brother Aaron and his sons in these clothes and anoint them, ordain them, and set them apart to serve me as priests.
Jehovah also said: This is what you must do in order to (consecrate) set Aaron and his sons apart to serve me as priests: Take a young bull that has no defects and two rams that have no defects.
He also poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head and anointed him to set him apart for his holy duties. Next, Moses dressed the sons of Aaron. He put shirts on them; put sashes around their waists, and tied caps on their heads, just as Jehovah commanded.
Take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and his clothes and on his sons and their clothes. He, his sons, and their clothes will then be dedicated to me.
Dress Aaron in the priestly garments and anoint him. Consecrate him so that he can serve me as priest.
Let the priests who come near to Jehovah consecrate (purify) themselves, or else Jehovah will destroy them.
The morning after each feast, Job would get up early to offer sacrifices for each of his children in order to purify them. He always did this because he thought that one of them might have sinned by insulting God unintentionally.
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