Holiness
179 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
48 sections
- Becoming to the Church
- Behaviour of Aged Women should be As Becomes
- Chastisements are Intended to Produce, in Saints
- Christ: An Example of
- Christ: Desires for his People
- Christ: Effects, in his People
- Commanded
- David
- General Scriptures Concerning
- Israel
- John the Baptist
- Ministers should Avoid Everything Inconsistent With
- Ministers should be Examples of
- Ministers should Exhort To
- Ministers should Possess
- Motives to The Dissolution of all Things
- Motives to The Glory of God
- Motives to The Love of Christ
- Motives to The Mercies of God
- Necessary to God's Worship
- None Shall See God Without
- Paul
- Promise to Women Who Continue In
- Promised to the Church
- Prophets
- Required in Prayer
- Saints: Called To
- Saints: Elected To
- Saints: Have Their Fruit To
- Saints: New Created In
- Saints: Possess
- Saints: Shall be Presented to God In
- Saints: Shall Continue In, for Ever
- Saints: should Continue In
- Saints: should Follow After
- Saints: should Have Their Conversation In
- Saints: should Present Their Bodies to God In
- Saints: should Seek Perfection In
- Saints: should Serve God In
- Saints: should Yield Their Members As Instruments of
- should Lead to Separation from the Wicked
- The Character of Christ, the Standard of
- The Character of God, the Standard of
- The Church is the Beauty of
- The Gospel the Way of
- The Wicked are Without
- The Word of God the Means of Producing
- Wives of Patriarchs
Becoming to the Church
- Psalm 93:5 Your testimonies are fully confirmed; holiness adorns Your house, O LORD, for all the days to come.
Behaviour of Aged Women should be As Becomes
- Titus 2:3 Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good.
Chastisements are Intended to Produce, in Saints
- Hebrews 12:10 Our fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness.
- James 1:2–3 Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you encounter trials of many kinds, …
Christ: An Example of
- Hebrews 7:26 Such a high priest truly befits us — One who is holy, innocent, undefiled, set apart from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.
- 1 Peter 2:21–22 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His footsteps: …
Christ: Desires for his People
- John 17:17 Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.
Christ: Effects, in his People
- Ephesians 5:25–27 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her …
Commanded
- Leviticus 11:45 For I am the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt so that I would be your God; therefore be holy, because I am holy.
- Leviticus 20:7 Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am the LORD your God.
- Ephesians 5:8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
- Colossians 3:12 Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.
- Romans 12:1 Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
David
- Psalm 86:2 Preserve my soul, for I am godly. You are my God; save Your servant who trusts in You.
General Scriptures Concerning
- Genesis 17:1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.
- Genesis 35:2 So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.
- Exodus 19:6 And unto Me you shall be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you are to speak to the Israelites.”
- Exodus 22:31 You are to be My holy people. You must not eat the meat of a mauled animal found in the field; you are to throw it to the dogs.
- Exodus 28:36 You are to make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it as on a seal: HOLY TO THE LORD.
- Exodus 39:30 They also made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and they engraved on it, like an inscription on a seal: HOLY TO THE LORD.
- Leviticus 10:8–10 Then the LORD said to Aaron, …
- Leviticus 11:44–45 For I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any creature that crawls along the ground. …
- Leviticus 11:47 You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between animals that may be eaten and those that may not.’”
- Leviticus 19:2 “Speak to the whole congregation of Israel and tell them: Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.
- Leviticus 20:7 Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am the LORD your God.
- Leviticus 20:26 You are to be holy to Me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be My own.
- Deuteronomy 13:17 Nothing devoted to destruction shall cling to your hands, so that the LORD will turn from His fierce anger, grant you mercy, show you compassion, and multiply you as He swore to your fathers,
- Deuteronomy 14:2 for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.
- Deuteronomy 18:13 You must be blameless before the LORD your God.
- Deuteronomy 26:19 that He will set you high in praise and name and honor above all the nations He has made, and that you will be a holy people to the LORD your God, as He has promised.
- Deuteronomy 28:9 The LORD will establish you as His holy people, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways.
- Deuteronomy 30:2 and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today,
- Deuteronomy 30:10 if you obey the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- Joshua 7:12–13 This is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies. They will turn their backs and run from their enemies, because they themselves have been set apart for destruction. I will no longer be with you unless you remove …
- Job 5:24 You will know that your tent is secure, and find nothing amiss when inspecting your home.
- Job 28:28 And He said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”
- Job 36:21 Be careful not to turn to iniquity, for this you have preferred to affliction.
- Psalm 4:4 Be angry, yet do not sin; on your bed, search your heart and be still. Selah
- Psalm 15:1–5 O LORD, who may abide in Your tent? Who may dwell on Your holy mountain? …
- Psalm 24:3–5 Who may ascend the hill of the LORD? Who may stand in His holy place? …
- Psalm 32:2 Blessed is the man whose iniquity the LORD does not count against him, in whose spirit there is no deceit.
- Psalm 37:27 Turn away from evil and do good, so that you will abide forever.
- Psalm 68:13 Though you lie down among the sheepfolds, the wings of the dove are covered with silver, and her feathers with shimmering gold.”
- Psalm 73:1 Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
- Psalm 85:13 Righteousness will go before Him to prepare the way for His steps.
- Psalm 94:15 Surely judgment will again be righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it.
- Psalm 97:10 Hate evil, O you who love the LORD! He preserves the souls of His saints; He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
- Psalm 119:1–3 Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the Law of the LORD. …
- Proverbs 11:23 The desire of the righteous leads only to good, but the hope of the wicked brings wrath.
- Proverbs 12:5 The plans of the righteous are just, but the counsel of the wicked leads to deceit.
- Proverbs 16:17 The highway of the upright leads away from evil; he who guards his way protects his life.
- Proverbs 21:8 The way of a guilty man is crooked, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.
- Proverbs 21:15 Justice executed is a joy to the righteous, but a terror to the workers of iniquity.
- Proverbs 21:29 A wicked man hardens his face, but the upright man makes his way sure.
- Proverbs 22:1 A good name is more desirable than great riches; favor is better than silver and gold.
- Ecclesiastes 7:1 A good name is better than fine perfume, and one’s day of death is better than his day of birth.
- Isaiah 4:3 Whoever remains in Zion and whoever is left in Jerusalem will be called holy— all in Jerusalem who are recorded among the living—
- Isaiah 26:2 Open the gates so a righteous nation may enter— one that remains faithful.
- Isaiah 26:8–9 Yes, we wait for You, O LORD; we walk in the path of Your judgments. Your name and renown are the desire of our souls. …
- Isaiah 32:17 The work of righteousness will be peace; the service of righteousness will be quiet confidence forever.
- Isaiah 35:8 And there will be a highway called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel it — only those who walk in the Way — and fools will not stray onto it.
- Isaiah 51:7 Listen to Me, you who know what is right, you people with My law in your hearts: Do not fear the scorn of men; do not be broken by their insults.
- Isaiah 52:1 Awake, awake, clothe yourself with strength, O Zion! Put on your garments of splendor, O Jerusalem, holy city! For the uncircumcised and unclean will no longer enter you.
- Isaiah 52:11 Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD.
- Isaiah 57:2 Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest, lying down in death.
- Isaiah 60:1 Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.
- Isaiah 60:21 Then all your people will be righteous; they will possess the land forever; they are the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, so that I may be glorified.
- Isaiah 61:3 to console the mourners in Zion — to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, …
- Micah 6:8 He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
- Zephaniah 2:3 Seek the LORD, all you humble of the earth who carry out His justice. Seek righteousness; seek humility. Perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD’s anger.
- Zechariah 8:3 This is what the LORD says: “I will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the LORD of Hosts will be called the Holy Mountain.”
- Zechariah 14:20–21 On that day, HOLY TO THE LORD will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, and the cooking pots in the house of the LORD will be like the sprinkling bowls before the altar. …
- Matthew 5:6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
- Matthew 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
- Matthew 5:29–30 If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. …
- Matthew 5:48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
- Matthew 12:33 Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is known by its fruit.
- Mark 9:49–50 For everyone will be salted with fire. …
- Luke 1:74–75 deliverance from hostile hands, that we may serve Him without fear, …
- Luke 6:45 The good man brings good things out of the good treasure of his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil treasure of his heart. For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.
- John 1:47 When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, He said of him, “Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit.”
- John 4:14 But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”
- John 5:14 Afterward, Jesus found the man at the temple and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Stop sinning, or something worse may happen to you.”
- John 6:35 Jesus answered, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst.
- John 15:19 If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.
- John 17:23 I in them and You in Me — that they may be perfectly united, so that the world may know that You sent Me and have loved them just as You have loved Me.
- Acts 24:16 In this hope, I strive always to maintain a clear conscience before God and man.
- Romans 2:28–29 A man is not a Jew because he is one outwardly, nor is circumcision only outward and physical. …
- Romans 6:1–23 What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase? …
- Romans 7:4 Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.
- Romans 7:6 But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
- Romans 8:1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
- Romans 8:4 so that the righteous standard of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
- Romans 8:12 Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation, but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it.
- Romans 11:16 If the first part of the dough is holy, so is the whole batch; if the root is holy, so are the branches.
- Romans 12:1–2 Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. …
- Romans 12:9 Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.
- Romans 13:12–14 The night is nearly over; the day has drawn near. So let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. …
- Romans 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
- Romans 16:19 Everyone has heard about your obedience, so I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise about what is good and innocent about what is evil.
- 1 Corinthians 3:16–17 Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? …
- 1 Corinthians 5:7 Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
- 1 Corinthians 6:12–13 “Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything. …
- 1 Corinthians 6:19–20 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; …
- 1 Corinthians 7:23 You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.
- 1 Corinthians 8:12 By sinning against your brothers in this way and wounding their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
- 1 Corinthians 10:21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too.
- 1 Corinthians 10:31–32 So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God. …
- 1 Corinthians 12:31 But eagerly desire the greater gifts. And now I will show you the most excellent way.
- 1 Corinthians 15:34 Sober up as you ought, and stop sinning; for some of you are ignorant of God. I say this to your shame.
- 2 Corinthians 6:14–17 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness? …
- 2 Corinthians 7:1 Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
- 2 Corinthians 10:3 For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh.
- 2 Corinthians 10:5 We demolish arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
- 2 Corinthians 11:2 I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
- 2 Corinthians 13:7–8 Now we pray to God that you will not do anything wrong — not that we will appear to have stood the test, but that you will do what is right, even if we appear to have failed. …
- Galatians 2:17 But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are found to be sinners, does that make Christ a minister of sin? Certainly not!
- Galatians 5:22–25 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, …
- Galatians 6:15 For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything. What counts is a new creation.
- Ephesians 1:4 For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love
- Ephesians 1:13–14 And in Him, having heard and believed the word of truth — the gospel of your salvation — you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, …
- Ephesians 2:21–22 In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord. …
- Ephesians 4:20–24 But this is not the way you came to know Christ. …
- Ephesians 5:1 Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,
- Ephesians 5:3 But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.
- Ephesians 5:8–11 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light, …
- Philippians 1:10–11 so that you may be able to test and prove what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, …
- Philippians 2:15 so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world
- Philippians 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think on these things.
- Colossians 1:22 But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in His presence —
- Colossians 3:5–10 Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry. …
- Colossians 3:12–15 Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. …
- 1 Thessalonians 2:12 encouraging you, comforting you, and urging you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.
- 1 Thessalonians 3:13 so that He may establish your hearts in blamelessness and holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints. Amen.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:3–4 For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality; …
- 1 Thessalonians 4:7 For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:5 For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day; we do not belong to the night or to the darkness.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:22–23 Abstain from every form of evil. …
- 2 Thessalonians 2:13 But we should always thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning to be saved by the sanctification of the Spirit and by faith in the truth.
- 1 Timothy 1:5 The goal of our instruction is the love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.
- 1 Timothy 4:8 For physical exercise is of limited value, but godliness is valuable in every way, holding promise for the present life and for the one to come.
- 1 Timothy 4:12 Let no one despise your youth, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
- 1 Timothy 5:22 Do not be too quick in the laying on of hands and thereby share in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.
- 1 Timothy 6:6 Of course, godliness with contentment is great gain.
- 1 Timothy 6:11–12 But you, O man of God, flee from these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness. …
- 2 Timothy 2:16–17 But avoid irreverent, empty chatter, which will only lead to more ungodliness, …
- 2 Timothy 2:19 Nevertheless, God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord must turn away from iniquity.”
- 2 Timothy 2:21–22 So if anyone cleanses himself of what is unfit, he will be a vessel for honor: sanctified, useful to the Master, and prepared for every good work. …
- 2 Timothy 3:17 so that the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work.
- Titus 1:15 To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
- Titus 2:9–10 Slaves are to submit to their own masters in everything, to be well-pleasing, not argumentative, …
- Titus 2:12 It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
- Hebrews 4:3 Now we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, it is just as God has said: “So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’” And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world.
- Hebrews 4:9 There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
- Hebrews 10:22 let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
- Hebrews 12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.
- Hebrews 12:10 Our fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness.
- Hebrews 12:14–15 Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord. …
Israel
- Jeremiah 2:3 Israel was holy to the LORD, the firstfruits of His harvest. All who devoured her were found guilty; disaster came upon them,’” declares the LORD.
John the Baptist
- Mark 6:20 because Herod feared John and protected him, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man. When he heard John’s words, he was greatly perplexed; yet he listened to him gladly.
Ministers should Avoid Everything Inconsistent With
- Leviticus 21:6 They must be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God. Because they present to the LORD the food offerings, the food of their God, they must be holy.
- Isaiah 52:11 Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD.
Ministers should be Examples of
- 1 Timothy 4:12 Let no one despise your youth, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
Ministers should Exhort To
- Hebrews 12:14 Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.
- 1 Peter 1:14–16 As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance. …
Ministers should Possess
- Titus 1:8 Instead, he must be hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.
Motives to The Dissolution of all Things
- 2 Peter 3:11 Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to conduct yourselves in holiness and godliness
Motives to The Glory of God
- John 15:8 This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, proving yourselves to be My disciples.
- Philippians 1:11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
Motives to The Love of Christ
- 2 Corinthians 5:14–15 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died. …
Motives to The Mercies of God
- Romans 12:1–2 Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. …
Necessary to God's Worship
- Psalm 24:3–4 Who may ascend the hill of the LORD? Who may stand in His holy place? …
None Shall See God Without
- Ephesians 5:5 For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
- Hebrews 12:14 Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.
Paul
- 1 Thessalonians 2:10 You are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy, righteous, and blameless our conduct was among you who believed.
Promise to Women Who Continue In
- 1 Timothy 2:15 Women, however, will be saved through childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control.
Promised to the Church
- Isaiah 35:8 And there will be a highway called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel it — only those who walk in the Way — and fools will not stray onto it.
- Obadiah 17 But on Mount Zion there will be deliverance, and it will be holy, and the house of Jacob will reclaim their possession.
- Zechariah 14:20–21 On that day, HOLY TO THE LORD will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, and the cooking pots in the house of the LORD will be like the sprinkling bowls before the altar. …
Prophets
- Luke 1:70 as He spoke through His holy prophets, those of ages past,
Required in Prayer
- 1 Timothy 2:8 Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger or dissension.
Saints: Called To
- 1 Thessalonians 4:7 For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.
- 2 Timothy 1:9 He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began.
Saints: Elected To
- Romans 8:29 For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.
- Ephesians 1:4 For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love
Saints: Have Their Fruit To
- Romans 6:22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life.
Saints: New Created In
- Ephesians 4:24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
Saints: Possess
- 1 Corinthians 3:17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.
- Hebrews 3:1 Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, set your focus on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess.
Saints: Shall be Presented to God In
- Colossians 1:22 But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in His presence —
- 1 Thessalonians 3:13 so that He may establish your hearts in blamelessness and holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints. Amen.
Saints: Shall Continue In, for Ever
- Revelation 22:11 Let the unrighteous continue to be unrighteous, and the vile continue to be vile; let the righteous continue to practice righteousness, and the holy continue to be holy.”
Saints: should Continue In
- Luke 1:75 in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our lives.
Saints: should Follow After
- Hebrews 12:14 Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.
Saints: should Have Their Conversation In
- 1 Peter 1:15 But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do,
- 2 Peter 3:11 Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to conduct yourselves in holiness and godliness
Saints: should Present Their Bodies to God In
- Romans 12:1 Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
Saints: should Seek Perfection In
- 2 Corinthians 7:1 Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Saints: should Serve God In
- Luke 1:74–75 deliverance from hostile hands, that we may serve Him without fear, …
Saints: should Yield Their Members As Instruments of
- Romans 6:13 Do not present the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and present the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness.
- Romans 6:19 I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.
should Lead to Separation from the Wicked
- Numbers 16:21 “Separate yourselves from this congregation so that I may consume them in an instant.”
- Numbers 16:26 And he warned the congregation, “Move away now from the tents of these wicked men. Do not touch anything that belongs to them, or you will be swept away because of all their sins.”
- 2 Corinthians 6:17–18 “Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.” …
The Character of Christ, the Standard of
- Romans 8:29 For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.
- 1 John 2:6 Whoever claims to abide in Him must walk as Jesus walked.
- Philippians 2:5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus:
The Character of God, the Standard of
- Leviticus 19:2 “Speak to the whole congregation of Israel and tell them: Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.
- 1 Peter 1:15–16 But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do, …
- Ephesians 5:1 Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,
The Church is the Beauty of
- 1 Chronicles 16:29 Ascribe to the LORD the glory due His name; bring an offering and come before Him. Worship the LORD in the splendor of His holiness;
- Psalm 29:2 Ascribe to the LORD the glory due His name; worship the LORD in the splendor of His holiness.
The Gospel the Way of
- Isaiah 35:8 And there will be a highway called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel it — only those who walk in the Way — and fools will not stray onto it.
The Wicked are Without
- 1 Timothy 1:9 We realize that law is not enacted for the righteous, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for killers of father or mother, for murderers,
- 2 Timothy 3:2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
The Word of God the Means of Producing
- John 17:17 Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.
- 2 Timothy 3:16–17 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness, …
Wives of Patriarchs
- 1 Peter 3:5 For this is how the holy women of the past adorned themselves. They put their hope in God and were submissive to their husbands,
Related topics
The Holiness of GodHoliness is the Result of The Manifestation of God's GraceHoliness is the Result of Union with ChristThe Holiness of God is IncomparableHoliness is the Result of God's KeepingHoliness is the Result of Subjection to God
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.