100 Bible Verses About Holiness of God
Bible verses about Holiness of God
To gaze upon the holiness of God is to stand before the very source of all light and truth. Scripture unveils this awe-inspiring purity, not merely as an abstract quality, but as the radiant essence that calls us higher. It is through these sacred texts that we apprehend the profound gap between the divine and the human, yet also the path drawn by grace. Let these verses illuminate the soul, stirring within us a deeper reverence and a yearning to reflect, however faintly, this ineffable perfection. Understanding this holiness is not academic; it is the vital key to unlocking a life oriented towards God.
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Exodus 40:10 (KJV)
And thou shalt anoint the altar of the burnt offering, and all his vessels, and sanctify the altar: and it shall be an altar most holy.
Contemplating God's Holiness in Scripture
And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
And be ready against the third day: for the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.
And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Lord: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.
And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.
So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day is holy; neither be ye grieved.
And thou shalt anoint the altar of the burnt offering, and all his vessels, and sanctify the altar: and it shall be an altar most holy.
Let them praise thy great and terrible name; for it is holy.
And that which is left of the meat offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’: it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the Lord made by fire.
Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the Lord: it is most holy.
Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.
In the courts of the Lord’s house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the Lord.
And the Lord spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the Lord, and died;
And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.
Neither shall ye profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the Lord which hallow you,
And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the Lord.
And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the Lord: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.
And the men of Beth–shemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy Lord God? and to whom shall he go up from us?
And let the priests also, which come near to the Lord, sanctify themselves, lest the Lord break forth upon them.
And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.
My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord: and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.
And the Lord said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the Lord, lest he break forth upon them.
Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.
Exalt ye the Lord our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy.
Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the Lord to gaze, and many of them perish.
But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die.
And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the Lord, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off.
Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.
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 it shall be upon Aaron to minister: and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the Lord, and when he cometh out, that he die not.
And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.
Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the Lord our God is holy.
Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.
When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire unto the Lord:
As for our redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon.
But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it is most holy unto the Lord.
Rejoice in the Lord, ye righteous; and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.
And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for the Lord.
Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.
Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar.
And he shall kill the bullock before the Lord: and the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine’s flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the Lord.
Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most holy.
And there went out fire from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.
Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the Lord.
And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which he commanded them not.
And David was displeased, because the Lord had made a breach upon Uzza: wherefore that place is called Perez–uzza to this day.
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 he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place: for as the sin offering is the priest’s, so is the trespass offering: it is most holy:
And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing unto the priest, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, before the Lord.
For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods.
And ye shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: for the anointing oil of the Lord is upon you. And they did according to the word of Moses.
And every earthen vessel, whereinto any of them falleth, whatsoever is in it shall be unclean; and ye shall break it.
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.
And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord.
Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come into his courts.
And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the Lord, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not:
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 whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.
None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: 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.
They have seen thy goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.
Therefore every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the Lord: and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
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 they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer unto the Lord;
Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the Lord, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the Lord.
And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the 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.
And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer it unto the Lord; even that man shall be cut off from among his people.
That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
Neither from a stranger’s hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes be in them: they shall not be accepted for you.
Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the Lord, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the Lord.
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.
And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the Lord.
For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.
And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest’s office: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth thereon:
But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the Lord; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die.
And there came out a fire from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the Lord shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?
And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.
But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the Lord: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.
And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.
And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
And the drink offering thereof shall be the fourth part of an hin for the one lamb: in the holy place shalt thou cause the strong wine to be poured unto the Lord for a drink offering.
Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the Lord dwell among the children of Israel.
The scripture passages unveil a divine nature utterly set apart by its luminous purity, a Holiness that burns away all alloy and imperfection. This is not merely an abstract attribute to be catalogued, but a living reality that confronts and transforms the soul. To stand before such sacred fire, even in meditation on these verses, is to recognize our own distance and, simultaneously, the profound invitation to draw near, purified by His very presence. Let these divine words not remain inert text, but become the wellspring of a deeper reverence and a perpetual aspiration to live in the light of Him who is Holy, Holy, Holy, aligning our fragile existence with His perfect and unapproachable radiance.