Bible Verses About Holiness

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

meekness, self-control; against such there is no law.

And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof.

If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk.

in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation,—in whom, having also believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

which is an earnest of our inheritance, unto the redemption of God’s own possession, unto the praise of his glory.

in whom each several building, fitly framed together, groweth into a holy temple in the Lord;

in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

But ye did not so learn Christ;

if so be that ye heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:

that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

and that ye be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

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

for ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light

(for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord;

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them;

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

that he might present the church to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and void of offence unto the day of Christ;

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

for which things’ sake cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience:

wherein ye also once walked, when ye lived in these things;