1992 verses about Holiness

For it was truly a divine contest which was carried through by them.

And reverence for God conquered, and crowned her own athletes.

These, therefore, having been sanctified through God, have been honored not only with this honor, but that also by their means the enemy did not overcome our nation;

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.

You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.

Neither do you light a lamp, and put it under a measuring basket, but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the house.

For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.

“Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

Jesus stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, “I want to. Be made clean.” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

For Herod had laid hold of John, and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife.

And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’” Isaiah 29:13

These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn’t defile the man.”

He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his garments became as white as the light.

Jesus entered into the temple of God, and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers’ tables and the seats of those who sold the doves.

He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ Isaiah 56:7 but you have made it a den of robbers!” Jeremiah 7:11

You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.

saying, “Ha! What do we have to do with you, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!”

for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he did many things, and he heard him gladly.

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him, when he comes in his Father’s glory, with the holy angels.”

His clothing became glistening, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them.

For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt.

He would not allow anyone to carry a container through the temple.

He taught, saying to them, “Isn’t it written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations?’ Isaiah 56:7 But you have made it a den of robbers!” Jeremiah 7:11

Now while he executed the priest’s office before God in the order of his division,

according to the custom of the priest’s office, his lot was to enter into the temple of the Lord and burn incense.

The people were waiting for Zacharias, and they marveled that he delayed in the temple.

For he who is mighty has done great things for me. Holy is his name.

In holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.

(as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”), Exodus 13:2,12

saying, “Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!”

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

He said to them, “When you pray, say, ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives you light.”

The Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.

You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?

But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

“Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.

Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it?

He entered into the temple, and began to drive out those who bought and sold in it,

saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house is a house of prayer,’ Isaiah 56:7 but you have made it a ‘den of robbers’!” Jeremiah 7:11

(he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was also waiting for God’s Kingdom:

To those who sold the doves, he said, “Take these things out of here! Don’t make my Father’s house a marketplace!”

But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”

Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ?

Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of him. Isaiah 6:1

Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!”

Jesus said to him, “Someone who has bathed only needs to have his feet washed, but is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you.”

One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.

I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth. Psalm 119:142

For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one;

They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.

because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.

Great fear came on the whole assembly, and on all who heard these things.

None of the rest dared to join them, however the people honored them.

All who sat in the council, fastening their eyes on him, saw his face like it was the face of an angel.

The Lord said to him, ‘Take off your sandals, for the place where you stand is holy ground.

But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,

A voice came to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean.”

He said to them, “You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean.

saying, “You went in to uncircumcised men, and ate with them!”

But I said, ‘Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.’

But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, ‘What God has cleansed, don’t you call unclean.’

When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’

“Concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’ Isaiah 55:3

Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.

Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations, to take out of them a people for his name.

Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

Herein I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,

to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.

May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.

Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,

For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.