Bible Verses About Holiness

but now put off, even ye, the whole--anger, wrath, malice, evil-speaking, filthy talking--out of your mouth.

Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices,

and having put on the new, which is renewed in regard to knowledge, after the image of Him who did create him;

Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering,

forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any one with any one may have a quarrel, as also the Christ did forgive you--so also ye;

and above all these things, have love, which is a bond of the perfection,

and let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also ye were called in one body, and become thankful.

for this is the will of God--your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,

that each of you know his own vessel to possess in sanctification and honour,

from all appearance of evil abstain ye;

and the God of the peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved unblameably in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ;

and thou, O man of God, these things flee, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness;

be striving the good strife of the faith, be laying hold on the life age-during, to which also thou wast called, and didst profess the right profession before many witnesses.

and the profane vain talkings stand aloof from, for to more impiety they will advance,

and their word as a gangrene will have pasture, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus,

if, then, any one may cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel to honour, sanctified and profitable to the master--to every good work having been prepared,

and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;

Servants--to their own masters are to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying,

not purloining, but showing all good stedfastness, that the teaching of God our Saviour they may adorn in all things.

peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,

looking diligently over lest any one be failing of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up may give trouble, and through this many may be defiled;

as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,

but according as He who did call you is holy, ye also, become holy in all behaviour,

because it hath been written, `Become ye holy, because I am holy;'

Beloved, I call upon you , as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,