1992 verses about Holiness

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.

and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, “There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the deeds of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.

Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

Then don’t let your good be slandered,

Greet one another with a holy kiss. The assemblies of Christ greet you.

to the assembly of God which is at Corinth; those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.

For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.

I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.

You are puffed up, and didn’t rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.

Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world—how she may please her husband.

This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.

Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

Let us not commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.

Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Give no occasion for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord’s cup in a way unworthy of the Lord will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

Let all things be done decently and in order.

All the brothers greet you. Greet one another with a holy kiss.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved, and in those who perish;

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

For if that which passes away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

if so be that being clothed we will not be found naked.

Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,

in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

What agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what portion has a believer with an unbeliever?

What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.” Leviticus 26:12; Jeremiah 32:38; Ezekiel 37:27

Therefore “‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you. Isaiah 52:11; Ezekiel 20:34,41

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

For behold, this same thing, that you were made sorry in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.

that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness and sexual immorality and lustfulness which they committed.

For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. And this we also pray for, even your perfecting.

For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.

Greet one another with a holy kiss.

to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!

gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love;

in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;

one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in us all.

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

Therefore don’t be partakers with them.

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise;

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

that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.

so that you may approve the things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ;

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

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;