Holiness

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• General scriptures concerningGenesis 17:1Genesis 35:2Exodus 19:6Exodus 22:31Exodus 28:36Exodus 39:30Leviticus 10:8–10Leviticus 11:44Leviticus 11:45Leviticus 11:47Leviticus 19:2Leviticus 20:7Leviticus 20:26Deuteronomy 13:17Deuteronomy 14:2Deuteronomy 18:13Deuteronomy 26:19Deuteronomy 28:9Deuteronomy 30:2Deuteronomy 30:10
• See Desire, Spiritual
• See God, Holiness of
• See Righteousness
• See Sanctification
• See Sinlessness

The passages, in Bible order (207)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. 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.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 17:11 voice

   “The words "be blameless" are addressed to Abraham, to whom had been given the spirit of wisdom, holy, marvelously agile, unpolluted. The soul of the just man, therefore, must be in training night and day, ever on the lookout, never indulging in sleep but on perpetual watch, intent on God, so as to understand the things that are and to comprehend the causes of each. But wisdom is also the interpreter of future things: "She knows the things of old and infers the things to come. She understands turns of speech and the solutions of riddles.

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2. 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.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 35:21 voice

   “After he was called by God, Jacob ascends to Bethel, that is, to the house of God (this is how the name Bethel is interpreted), offers sacrifices to God and is declared chief and master of the holy rites. He teaches his successors and descendants how they must enter the house of God. He orders the foreign gods to be rejected like dung and filth and to change the garments. It is fitting for us to do likewise when we are called before God, or enter the divine temple, especially in the time of the holy baptism.

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3. 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.”

   ›Commentary on Exodus 19:61 voice

   “How indeed but in his body did Christ expiate the sins of the people? In what did he suffer, save in his body—even as we said: "Christ having suffered in the flesh"? In what is he a priest, save in that which he took unto himself the vocation of a priestly nation?

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4. 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.

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   “And ye shall be holy men unto me,....

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5. Exodus 28:36

   You are to make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it as on a seal: HOLY TO THE LORD.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 28:361 voice

   “And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold,....

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6. 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.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 39:301 voice

   “The holy crown of pure gold - On Asiatic monuments, particularly those that appear in the ruins of Persepolis and on many Egyptian monuments, the priests are represented as wearing crowns or tiaras, and sometimes their heads are crowned with laurel. Cuper observes, that the priests and priestesses, among the ancient Greeks, were styled στεφανοφοροι, or crown-bearers, because they officiated having sometimes crowns of gold, at others, crowns of laurel, upon their heads.

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7. Leviticus 10:8–10

   Then the LORD said to Aaron,

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   “And the Lord spake unto Aaron,....

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8. Leviticus 11:44

   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.

   ›Commentary on Leviticus 11:441 voice

   "Be holy, says the Lord, for I am holy." The apostles boasted that they had left all things and had followed the Savior. We do not read that they left anything except their ship and their nets; yet they were crowned with the approval of him who was to be their judge. Why? Because in offering up themselves they had indeed left all that they had.

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9. 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.

   ›Commentary on Leviticus 11:451 voice

   “For I am the Lord that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt,....

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10. Leviticus 11:47

    You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between animals that may be eaten and those that may not.’”

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    “To make a difference between the unclean and the clean,....

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11. Leviticus 19:2

    “Speak to the whole congregation of Israel and tell them: Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.

    ›Commentary on Leviticus 19:21 voice

    “To be sanctified is to be drawn away from any love that sullies and corrupts and may lead the soul to ruin. In this must the creature resemble the Creator: "You shall be holy," He said, "because I am holy." This holiness makes one God-conformed. …

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12. Leviticus 20:7

    Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am the LORD your God.

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    “Sanctify yourselves therefore,.... By abstaining from such impious and idolatrous practices, and separating themselves from all that gave into them, as well as by observing the holy commandments of the Lord; otherwise internal sanctification is not the work of man, but of the Lord himself, as in Lev 20:8, and be ye holy; or a separate people from all others in worship and conversation: for I am the Lord your God; who is a holy God, and therefore it became them to be holy, in imitation of him, Lev 19:2.

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13. 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.

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    “And ye shall be holy unto me,....

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14. 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,

    ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 13:172 voices

    “And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand,....

    “And there shall cleave naught of the cursed thing - As God did not permit them to take the spoils of these idolatrous cities, they could be under no temptation to make war upon them. It could only be done through a merely religious motive, in obedience to the command of God, as they could have no profit by the subversion of such places. How few religious wars would there ever have been in the world had they been regulated by this principle: “Thou shalt neither extend thy territory, nor take any spoils!”

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15. 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.

    ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 14:21 voice

    “For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God,....

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16. Deuteronomy 18:13

    You must be blameless before the LORD your God.

    ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 18:131 voice

    “Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God. Sincerely serve and worship him, faithfully adhere to his word, laws, statutes, and ordinances, and walk uprightly before him.

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