Bible Verses About Personal 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.

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

But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;

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

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.

And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.

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

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

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 that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;

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 for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

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.

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

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

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.

And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

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.

Let your heart therefore be perfect with the Lord our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.

All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men’s sins: keep thyself pure.

He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.

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

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.