Bible Verses About Respect for Sacredness

Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.

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

Wherefore now let the fear of the Lord be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.

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

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

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

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

And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

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.

O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.

And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.

Neither shall ye profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the Lord which hallow you,

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

Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.

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

Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

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.

Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the Lord our God is holy.

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer unto the Lord;

For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.

Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.

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.

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

If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:

But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.

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

Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.

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

Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.

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

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.

Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.

Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the Lord do sanctify them.

But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.

Exalt ye the Lord our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy.

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.

Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy: and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy place.