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Bible Verses About Holiness

Key Bible verses about holiness include Leviticus 20:7, Leviticus 19:2 and Leviticus 11:44. Each verse is quoted below; open one to see the passages it cross-references.

Key Verses About Holiness (30)

1
Leviticus 20:7

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

2
Leviticus 19:2

“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.”

3
Leviticus 11:44

“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.”

4
Leviticus 11:45

“For I am the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.”

5
Leviticus 20:26

“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.”

6
Leviticus 21:8

“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.”

7
Leviticus 10:3

“Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the LORD spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.”

8
1 Peter 1:16

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

9
Deuteronomy 14:2

“For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.”

10
Exodus 30:29

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

11
Deuteronomy 7:6

“For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.”

12
Leviticus 22:16

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

13
Leviticus 22:32

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

14
Joshua 7:13

“Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you.”

15
Leviticus 21:6

“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.”

16
Leviticus 21:23

“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.”

17
Leviticus 22:3

“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.”

18
2 Corinthians 7:1

“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.”

19
Deuteronomy 26:19

“And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken.”

20
Exodus 19:6

“And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.”

21
Leviticus 10:10

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

22
Leviticus 14:11

“And the priest that maketh him clean shall present the man that is to be made clean, and those things, before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:”

23
Ezekiel 37:23

“Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.”

24
Numbers 18:9

“This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of theirs, every meat offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons.”

25
Leviticus 10:17

“Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin offering in the holy place, seeing it is most holy, and God hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD?”

26
2 Chronicles 29:5

“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.”

27
Leviticus 22:2

“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.”

28
Exodus 19:22

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

29
Ezekiel 36:23

“And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.”

30
Isaiah 5:16

“But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.”

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