100 Bible Verses About Holiness
Bible verses about Holiness
Exploring holiness through scripture is a journey into the very heart of God's nature. Understanding holiness is not about adhering to rigid rules, but about recognizing the transformative power of God's presence in our lives. These verses reveal a path towards wholeness, purity, and a deeper connection with the Divine. As we meditate on these passages, let them illuminate our understanding of God's character and inspire us to reflect that same character in our thoughts, words, and actions. Embrace this study with an open heart, seeking to be drawn closer to the source of all holiness and allowing it to shape you into the person God intends you to be.
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Leviticus 9:2 (KJV)
And he said unto Aaron, Take thee a young calf for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before the Lord.
Holiness: Bible Verses for Pure Living
And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be somewhat dark after the washing of it; then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof:
Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.
That ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:
This gate of the Lord, into which the righteous shall enter.
I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore.
And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:
I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.
It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord.
The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.
According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.
And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing, like to the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: ye shall do no servile work therein:
This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, about the most holy things:
They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.
And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and shalt put water therein.
And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, according to the work of the apothecary.
The nakedness of thy father’s wife’s daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
And the bullock for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall one carry forth without the camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung.
And put fire therein, and put incense in them before the Lord to morrow: and it shall be that the man whom the Lord doth choose, he shall be holy: ye take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.
And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days.
To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.
Praise ye the Lord. O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests:
And when thou preparest a bullock for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice in performing a vow, or peace offerings unto the Lord:
Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the Lord: for great is the glory of the Lord.
And thou shalt say unto them, This is the offering made by fire which ye shall offer unto the Lord; two lambs of the first year without spot day by day, for a continual burnt offering.
Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon all four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they are an abomination.
No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the Lord, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the Lord made by fire.
Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the Lord an heave offering in your generations.
The Lord hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.
But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.
Then the priest shall look: and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be darkish white; it is a freckled spot that groweth in the skin; he is clean.
In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.
And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
All the days that he separateth himself unto the Lord he shall come at no dead body.
And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever uncleanness it be that a man shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty.
For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering unto the Lord, ye shall bring your offering of the cattle, even of the herd, and of the flock.
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about.
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the Lord, to the mighty One of Israel.
And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the Lord.
And he said unto Aaron, Take thee a young calf for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before the Lord.
He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: the Lord is gracious and full of compassion.
I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.
How he sware unto the Lord, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob;
Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?
The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple.
Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O Lord; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
And if a man sanctify unto the Lord a field which he hath bought, which is not of the fields of his possession;
Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.
And the breasts and the right shoulder Aaron waved for a wave offering before the Lord; as Moses commanded.
This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith;
But if any water be put upon the seed, and any part of their carcase fall thereon, it shall be unclean unto you.
When they went into the tent of the congregation, and when they came near unto the altar, they washed; as the Lord commanded Moses.
And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each ten cubits high.
For thou, Lord, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods.
For every meat offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten.
They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
And Korah gathered all the congregation against them unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the glory of the Lord appeared unto all the congregation.
And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put in the staves thereof.
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.
I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.
And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for his part.
And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.
And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the Lord which sanctify you.
Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the Lord of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the Lord.
They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.
God is the Lord, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.
And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.
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 he slew it; and Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it, to make reconciliation upon it.
Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place?
To him who alone doeth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meat offering two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third part of an hin of oil.
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.
And if his offering be of the flocks, namely, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring it a male without blemish.
That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the Lord your God.
These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat.
And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons:
For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.
And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:
And it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully set up the tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified it, and all the instruments thereof, both the altar and all the vessels thereof, and had anointed them, and sanctified them;
His foundation is in the holy mountains.
The verses explored reveal that holiness isn't merely a set of rules, but a transformative journey towards reflecting God's character in every facet of life. From Leviticus' emphasis on ritual purity to the New Testament's call for inward transformation through Christ, holiness encompasses both outward actions and inward motivations. We see that it's not about achieving unattainable perfection, but about striving towards God's righteousness through His grace. Meditating on these scriptures provides a framework for understanding God's expectations and for pursuing a life dedicated to Him. Let these verses inspire introspection, prompting us to examine our own lives and identify areas where we can better reflect God's holiness. Embrace the challenge, seeking His guidance and strength to live a life that honors Him and draws others to His light.