14 Bible Verses About Holiness

Seek peace with everyone, and go after holiness, since apart from it no one will see the Lord.

For God did not call us to be impure, but to live in holiness.

Dear friends, since these promises are ours, let us wash ourselves clean of every stain on body and spirit, and carry our holiness through to its goal as we live in the fear of God.

You must be holy to me, because I, the LORD, am holy. I have set you apart from the other peoples so that you will belong to me.

So, brothers and sisters, I appeal to you by the mercies of God: offer your bodies to God as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to him. That is your reasonable worship.

He saved us and called us to a holy life, not because of anything we had done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before eternal ages began,

Instead, be holy yourselves in all your conduct, just as the one who called you is holy,

Even before the world was founded, God chose us in Christ, so that we would be holy and without blemish before him in love.

For I am the LORD your God. Consecrate yourselves, then. You must be holy, because I am holy. None of the creatures that creep on the ground must make you unclean.

Now, though, freed from sin and made slaves of God, you have fruit that leads to holiness, and its outcome is eternal life.

Those fathers disciplined us for a short span of years, in whatever way seemed right to them. God does it for what truly benefits us, so that we may come to share in his holiness.

This is God’s will for you: that you be holy. Keep away from sexual immorality.

Who has the right to climb the mountain of the LORD? Who may stand in the place of his holiness? Those whose hands are innocent and whose hearts are pure, who have not called on God’s own life to back what is false, and have not sworn an oath to deceive.