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Bible Verses about Holiness

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Compiled by The BibleStudyTools Staff on 09/19/2019

What does the Bible say about Holiness? Discover the top Bible verses about Holiness from the Old and New Testaments. Read through the biblical references of Holiness to learn more about its meaning and significance. May you find some insight from these related scripture quotes!

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Hebrews 12:14

Hebrews 12:14
14 Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.
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Romans 6:22

22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.
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Hebrews 12:10

10 They disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, in order that we may share in his holiness.
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2 Corinthians 7:1

1 Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.
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Romans 6:19

19 I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness.
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1 Corinthians 1:30

30 It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption.
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Luke 1:74-75

74 to rescue us from the hand of our enemies, and to enable us to serve him without fear
75 in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.
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Ephesians 4:24

24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
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Ephesians 4:20-24

What are some ways God has changed your life?
20 That, however, is not the way of life you learned
21 when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus.
22 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds;
24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
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Ephesians 4:23-24

23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds;
24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
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Hebrews 12:14-15

Hebrews 12:14
14 Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.
15 See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.
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Luke 1:75

75 in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.
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1 Timothy 2:15

15 But women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety.
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Isaiah 35:8

8 And a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness; it will be for those who walk on that Way. The unclean will not journey on it; wicked fools will not go about on it.
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Exodus 15:11

11 Who among the gods is like you, LORD? Who is like you— majestic in holiness, awesome in glory, working wonders?
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Ezekiel 38:23

23 And so I will show my greatness and my holiness, and I will make myself known in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’
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Psalms 96:9

9 Worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness; tremble before him, all the earth.
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1 Chronicles 16:29

29 Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; bring an offering and come before him. Worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness.
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Psalms 93:5

5 Your statutes, LORD, stand firm; holiness adorns your house for endless days.
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Psalms 29:2

2 Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness.
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Ezekiel 36:22-29

22 “Therefore say to the Israelites, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: It is not for your sake, people of Israel, that I am going to do these things, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you have gone.
23 I will show the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, the name you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Sovereign LORD, when I am proved holy through you before their eyes.
24 “ ‘For I will take you out of the nations; I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land.
25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols.
26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
27 And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.
28 Then you will live in the land I gave your ancestors; you will be my people, and I will be your God.
29 I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will call for the grain and make it plentiful and will not bring famine upon you.
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Leviticus 19:2

2 “Speak to the entire assembly of Israel and say to them: ‘Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.
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1 Peter 2:9

You were not called to fit in!
9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
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Isaiah 6:3

Isaiah 6:3
3 And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.”
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1 Peter 1:15-16

15 But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do;
16 for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”
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1 Samuel 2:2

"There is no one holy like the LORD"  - 1 Samuel 2:2
2 “There is no one holy like the LORD; there is no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God.
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Exodus 19:6

6 you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.”
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Romans 12:1

1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.
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Leviticus 11:44

44 I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy. Do not make yourselves unclean by any creature that moves along the ground.
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Romans 12:1-2

Your Daily Verse - Romans 12:2
1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.
2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
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Ephesians 1:4

4 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love
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John 17:17

John 17:17
17 Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.
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1 Peter 1:15

15 But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do;
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1 Thessalonians 4:7

7 For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.
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Isaiah 6:1

1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple.
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Matthew 5:48

Matthew 5:48, MSG
48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
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1 Peter 1:14-16

14 As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.
15 But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do;
16 for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”
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Colossians 3:12

12 Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
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Zechariah 14:20-21

20 On that day HOLY TO THE LORD will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, and the cooking pots in the LORD’s house will be like the sacred bowls in front of the altar.
21 Every pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be holy to the LORD Almighty, and all who come to sacrifice will take some of the pots and cook in them. And on that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the LORD Almighty.
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1 Peter 3:11

11 They must turn from evil and do good; they must seek peace and pursue it.
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Ephesians 5:3

3 But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people.
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Hebrews 7:26

26 Such a high priest truly meets our need—one who is holy, blameless, pure, set apart from sinners, exalted above the heavens.
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Philippians 2:5

5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:
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1 Timothy 1:9

9 We also know that the law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers,
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Exodus 3:5

5 “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”
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Isaiah 6:5

5 “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty.”
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1 Corinthians 1:2

2 To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be his holy people, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ—their Lord and ours:
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Leviticus 20:7

7 “ ‘Consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am the LORD your God.
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Leviticus 20:26

26 You are to be holy to me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be my own.
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Romans 8:1

1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,
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