96 Bible Verses about Holiness of God (KJV)

Here are 96 Bible verses about holiness of God, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

1 Samuel 2:2 KJV

²There is none holy as the Lord: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.

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1 Peter 1:15-16 KJV

¹⁵But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; ¹⁶Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

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Isaiah 57:15 KJV

¹⁵For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

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Isaiah 6:3 KJV

³And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.

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Psalm 96:9 KJV

⁹O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.

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1 Peter 1:16 KJV

¹⁶Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

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Leviticus 19:2 KJV

²Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy.

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Hebrews 12:14 KJV

¹⁴Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

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Ephesians 1:4 KJV

⁴According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

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2 Corinthians 7:1 KJV

¹Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

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Exodus 15:11 KJV

¹¹Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

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1 Peter 2:9 KJV

⁹But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;

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Romans 12:1 KJV

¹I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

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Isaiah 6:1-13 KJV

¹In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. ²Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. ³And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. …

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Revelation 4:8 KJV

⁸And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.

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2 Timothy 1:9 KJV

⁹Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,

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Leviticus 11:44-47 KJV

⁴⁴For I am the Lord your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. ⁴⁵For I am the Lord that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy. ⁴⁶This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every …

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Matthew 5:48 KJV

⁴⁸Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

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Leviticus 20:26 KJV

²⁶And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the Lord am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.

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Romans 6:22 KJV

²²But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

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Psalm 103:1-22 KJV

¹Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. ²Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: ³Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; ⁴Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; ⁵Who satisfieth thy …

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1 Thessalonians 4:7 KJV

⁷For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

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Ephesians 5:3 KJV

³But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

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1 John 1:7 KJV

⁷But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

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Philippians 2:5 KJV

⁵Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

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Ezekiel 38:23 KJV

²³Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord.

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Leviticus 11:44 KJV

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1 Peter 1:15 KJV

¹⁵But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;

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Romans 12:1-2 KJV

¹I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. ²And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

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Ezekiel 36:23 KJV

²³And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, saith the Lord God, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.

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Isaiah 35:8 KJV

⁸And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.

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Revelation 15:4 KJV

⁴Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.

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Amos 5:14 KJV

¹⁴Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.

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1 Corinthians 3:16 KJV

¹⁶Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

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Luke 8:16 KJV

¹⁶No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but setteth it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light.

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Proverbs 9:10 KJV

¹⁰The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

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Psalm 119:9 KJV

⁹Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.

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Philippians 2:14-16 KJV

¹⁴Do all things without murmurings and disputings: ¹⁵That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; ¹⁶Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

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Psalm 139:23-24 KJV

²³Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: ²⁴And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

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1 Peter 1:14-16 KJV

¹⁴As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: ¹⁵But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; ¹⁶Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

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Hebrews 7:26 KJV

²⁶For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

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John 17:17 KJV

¹⁷Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

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Proverbs 20:25 KJV

²⁵It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.

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Psalm 68:4-5 KJV

⁴Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name Jah, and rejoice before him. ⁵A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

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Psalm 103:1 KJV

¹Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.

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1 John 3:3 KJV

³And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

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1 Thessalonians 4:3 KJV

³For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

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1 Corinthians 3:17 KJV

¹⁷If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

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Habakkuk 1:13 KJV

¹³Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?

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Romans 16:17 KJV

¹⁷Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.

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Romans 6:19 KJV

¹⁹I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

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Mark 1:24 KJV

²⁴Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.

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1 Chronicles 16:29 KJV

²⁹Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.

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1 Peter 1:13-16 KJV

¹³Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; ¹⁴As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: ¹⁵But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; ¹⁶Because it is …

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1 Thessalonians 5:23 KJV

²³And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Philippians 4:8 KJV

⁸Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

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Deuteronomy 7:6 KJV

⁶For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

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John 3:16 KJV

¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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Isaiah 40:25 KJV

²⁵To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.

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Psalm 93:5 KJV

⁵Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O Lord, for ever.

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Leviticus 11:1-47 KJV

¹And the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them, ²Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth. ³Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat. ⁴Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, …

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2 Timothy 2:21 KJV

²¹If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.

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Colossians 1:12-18 KJV

¹²Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: ¹³Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: ¹⁴In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: ¹⁵Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of …

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Exodus 3:5 KJV

⁵And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

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1 Timothy 1:9 KJV

⁹Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

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2 Corinthians 5:21 KJV

²¹For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

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Romans 8:29 KJV

²⁹For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

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Romans 6:23 KJV

²³For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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Romans 3:23 KJV

²³For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

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Proverbs 1:7 KJV

⁷The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

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1 Peter 2:24 KJV

²⁴Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

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Colossians 1:22 KJV

²²In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:

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Luke 1:75 KJV

⁷⁵In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.

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Isaiah 6:5 KJV

⁵Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.

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1 Thessalonians 4:4 KJV

⁴That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

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Matthew 12:36 KJV

³⁶But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

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Leviticus 20:7 KJV

⁷Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the Lord your God.

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1 John 3:6-10 KJV

⁶Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him. ⁷Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. ⁸He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. …

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1 Peter 1:1-25 KJV

¹Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, ²Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. ³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to …

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Ephesians 4:20-24 KJV

²⁰But ye have not so learned Christ; ²¹If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: ²²That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; ²³And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; ²⁴And that ye put on the new man, which …

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1 Corinthians 1:2 KJV

²Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both their’s and our’s:

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Romans 7:12 KJV

¹²Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

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2 Thessalonians 2:13 KJV

¹³But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

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Psalm 98:1 KJV

¹O sing unto the Lord a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.

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Revelation 22:18-19 KJV

¹⁸For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: ¹⁹And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

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1 Peter 1:2 KJV

²Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.

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1 Thessalonians 3:13 KJV

¹³To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.

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Luke 5:8 KJV

⁸When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.

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1 Corinthians 6:20 KJV

²⁰For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

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Isaiah 6:1 KJV

¹In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.

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1 John 2:29 KJV

²⁹If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.

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Philippians 2:2 KJV

²Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

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2 Corinthians 5:10 KJV

¹⁰For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

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Romans 8:7 KJV

⁷Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

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John 3:1-36 KJV

¹There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: ²The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. ³Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. …

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Revelation 1:1 KJV

¹The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

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