Quotes About Holiness

It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.

If anyone destroys Godís temple, God will destroy him; for Godís temple is holy, and you are that temple.

I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.

“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;

Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good to abstain from sexual relations.

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

and his interests are divided. The unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the work of the Lord, how she can be holy in both body and spirit. But the married woman is concerned about the affairs of this world, how she can please her husband.

And this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relation to you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God—not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God.

“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”

Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.

so that you may be able to test and prove what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,

But now He has reconciled you by Christís physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in His presence—

Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.

You are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy, righteous, and blameless our conduct was among you who believed.

so that He may establish your hearts in blamelessness and holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints. Amen.

For it is Godís will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;

each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,

not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;

For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.