Bible Verses About Guarding Holiness

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

Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the Lord your God.

But let none come into the house of the Lord, save the priests, and they that minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the watch of the Lord.

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

For I am the Lord your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.

And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

For the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.

And let the priests also, which come near to the Lord, sanctify themselves, lest the Lord break forth upon them.

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the Lord which sanctify you.

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

To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the Lord do sanctify them.

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the Lord am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.

And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.

And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the Lord God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.

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

Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not my holy name in those things which they hallow unto me: I am the Lord.

Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord.

Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the Lord do sanctify them.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.

And both the singers and the porters kept the ward of their God, and the ward of the purification, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.

And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.

Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die.

If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.

And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.

Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy.

Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the Lord, which sanctify you, am holy.

Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the Lord do sanctify him.

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

For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is therein, and shalt hallow it, and all the vessels thereof: and it shall be holy.