Quotes About Holiness

Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell. For I, the LORD, dwell among the Israelites.”

For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.

And you must not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. You are to utterly detest and abhor it, because it is set apart for destruction.

Be careful not to offer your burnt offerings in just any place you see;

Only be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.

But you are to take your holy things and your vow offerings and go to the place the LORD will choose.

for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

You must not eat any detestable thing.

as well as the pig; though it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud. It is unclean for you. You must not eat its meat or touch its carcass.

You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its motherís milk.

Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole next to the altar you will build for the LORD your God,

You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep with any defect or serious flaw, for that is detestable to the LORD your God.

You must be blameless before the LORD your God.

Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.

No man with crushed or severed genitals may enter the assembly of the LORD.

If any man among you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp and stay outside.

For the LORD your God walks throughout your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, lest He see anything unclean among you and turn away from you.

You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.

Moreover, you are to build there an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. You must not use any iron tool on them.

The LORD will establish you as His holy people, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways.

For at the waters of Meribah-kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you broke faith with Me among the Israelites by failing to treat Me as holy in their presence.

Then Joshua told the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.”

The Commander of the LORDís army replied, “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so.