Holiness

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord:

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

but like as he who called you is holy, be ye yourselves also holy in all manner of living; — read the full passage →

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal life.

Ye therefore shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of your ignorance: — read the full passage →

who saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:

And no man, when he hath lighted a lamp, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but putteth it on a stand, that they that enter in may see the light.

Do all things without murmurings and questionings: — read the full passage →

If any man destroyeth the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye.

Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them that are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which ye learned: and turn away from them.

because it is written, Ye shall be holy; for I am holy.

And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Sanctify them in the truth: thy word is truth.

If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, meet for the master’s use, prepared unto every good work.

I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness unto sanctification.

and put on the new man, that after God hath been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither knoweth him. — read the full passage →

but like as he who called you is holy, be ye yourselves also holy in all manner of living;

In holiness and righteousness before him all our days.

as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and unruly, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, be sober and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

Seeing that these things are thus all to be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy living and godliness,

For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren:

And every one that hath this hope set on him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

But ye did not so learn Christ; — read the full passage →

that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreproveable before him:

to the end he may establish your hearts unblamable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who was made unto us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

For such a high priest became us, holy, guileless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ. — read the full passage →

And it came to pass soon afterwards, that he went about through cities and villages, preaching and bringing the good tidings of the kingdom of God, and with him the twelve, — read the full passage →

for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;

who his own self bare our sins in his body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?

unto the church of God which is at Corinth, eventhem that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, calledto besaints, with all that call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, theirLordand ours:

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

make full my joy, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

And the four living creatures, having each one of them six wings, are full of eyes round about and within: and they have no rest day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, isthe Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come.

Who shall not fear, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy; for all the nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy righteous acts have been made manifest.

So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

For whatsoever is begotten of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that hath overcome the world, even our faith.

Him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;

Beloved, imitate not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: he that doeth evil hath not seen God.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John; — read the full passage →

that ye receive her in the Lord, worthily of the saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever matter she may have need of you: for she herself also hath been a helper of many, and of mine own self.

unto Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.