Bible Verses About Sanctification

"'A cohen is not to marry a woman who is a prostitute, who has been profaned or who has been divorced; because he is holy for his God.

Rather, you are to set him apart as holy, because he offers the bread of your God; he is to be holy for you, because I, ADONAI, who makes you holy, am holy.

The daughter of a cohen who profanes herself by prostitution profanes her father; she is to be put to death by fire.

"'The cohen who is ranked highest among his brothers, the one on whose head the anointing oil is poured and who is consecrated to put on the garments, is not to stop grooming his hair, tear his clothes,

go in to where any dead body is or make himself unclean, even when his father or mother dies.

He may not leave the sanctuary then or profane the sanctuary of his God, because the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him; I am ADONAI.

"'He is to marry a virgin;

he may not marry a widow, divorcee, profaned woman or prostitute; but he must marry a virgin from among his own people

and not disqualify his descendants among his people; because I am ADONAI, who makes him holy.'"

ADONAI said to Moshe,

"Tell Aharon, 'None of your descendants who has a defect may approach to offer the bread of his God.

No one with a defect may approach - no one blind, lame, with a mutilated face or a limb too long,

a broken foot or a broken arm,

a hunched back, stunted growth, a cataract in his eye, festering or running sores, or damaged testicles -

no one descended from Aharon the cohen who has such a defect may approach to present the offerings for ADONAI made by fire; he has a defect and is not to approach to offer the bread of his God.

He may eat the bread of his God, both the especially holy and the holy;

only he is not to go in to the curtain or approach the altar, because he has a defect - so that he will not profane my holy places, because I am ADONAI, who makes them holy.'"

The cohanim must observe this charge of mine; otherwise, if they profane it, they will bear the consequences of their sin for doing so and die in it; I am ADONAI, who makes them holy.

"'When a person consecrates his house to be holy for ADONAI, the cohen is to set a value on it in relation to its good and bad points; the value set by the cohen will stand.

If the consecrator wishes to redeem his house, he must add one-fifth to the value you have set on it; and it will revert to him.

"'If a person consecrates to ADONAI part of a field belonging to his tribe's possession, you are to value it according to its production, with five bushels of barley being valued at fifty shekels of silver [one-and-a-quarter pounds].

Understand that ADONAI sets apart the godly person for himself; ADONAI will hear when I call to him.

"Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you; before you were born, I separated you for myself. I have appointed you to be a prophet to the nations."

The nations will know that I am ADONAI, who sets Isra'el apart as holy, when my sanctuary is with them forever.'"

Set them apart for holiness by means of the truth — your word is truth.