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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Genesis 17:1

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Genesis 35:2

So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Exodus 19:6

And unto Me you shall be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you are to speak to the Israelites.”

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Exodus 22:31

You are to be My holy people. You must not eat the meat of a mauled animal found in the field; you are to throw it to the dogs.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Exodus 28:36

You are to make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it as on a seal: HOLY TO THE LORD.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Exodus 39:30

They also made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and they engraved on it, like an inscription on a seal: HOLY TO THE LORD.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Leviticus 10:8–10

Then the LORD said to Aaron, / “You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink when you enter the Tent of Meeting, or else you will die; this is a permanent statute for the generations to come. / You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean,

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Leviticus 11:44, 45, 47

For I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any creature that crawls along the ground. / For I am the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt so that I would be your God; therefore be holy, because I am holy. / You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between animals that may be eaten and those that may not.’”

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Leviticus 19:2

“Speak to the whole congregation of Israel and tell them: Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Leviticus 20:7, 26

Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am the LORD your God. / You are to be holy to Me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be My own.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Deuteronomy 13:17

Nothing devoted to destruction shall cling to your hands, so that the LORD will turn from His fierce anger, grant you mercy, show you compassion, and multiply you as He swore to your fathers,

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Deuteronomy 14:2

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.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Deuteronomy 18:13

You must be blameless before the LORD your God.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Deuteronomy 26:19

that He will set you high in praise and name and honor above all the nations He has made, and that you will be a holy people to the LORD your God, as He has promised.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Deuteronomy 28:9

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.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Deuteronomy 30:2, 10

and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today, / if you obey the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Joshua 7:12, 13

This is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies. They will turn their backs and run from their enemies, because they themselves have been set apart for destruction. I will no longer be with you unless you remove from among you whatever is devoted to destruction. / Get up and consecrate the people, saying, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Among you, O Israel, there are things devoted to destruction. You cannot stand against your enemies until you remove them.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Job 5:24

You will know that your tent is secure, and find nothing amiss when inspecting your home.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Job 28:28

And He said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Job 36:21

Be careful not to turn to iniquity, for this you have preferred to affliction.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 4:4

Be angry, yet do not sin; on your bed, search your heart and be still. Selah

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 15:1–5

A Psalm of David. O LORD, who may abide in Your tent? Who may dwell on Your holy mountain? / He who walks with integrity and practices righteousness, who speaks the truth from his heart, / who has no slander on his tongue, who does no harm to his neighbor, who casts no scorn on his friend,

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 24:3–5

Who may ascend the hill of the LORD? Who may stand in His holy place? / He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully. / He will receive blessing from the LORD and vindication from the God of his salvation.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 32:2

Blessed is the man whose iniquity the LORD does not count against him, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 37:27

Turn away from evil and do good, so that you will abide forever.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 68:13

Though you lie down among the sheepfolds, the wings of the dove are covered with silver, and her feathers with shimmering gold.”

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 73:1

A Psalm of Asaph. Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 85:13

Righteousness will go before Him to prepare the way for His steps.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 94:15

Surely judgment will again be righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 97:10

Hate evil, O you who love the LORD! He preserves the souls of His saints; He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 119:1–3

Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the Law of the LORD. / Blessed are those who keep His testimonies and seek Him with all their heart. / They do no iniquity; they walk in His ways.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 11:23

The desire of the righteous leads only to good, but the hope of the wicked brings wrath.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 12:5

The plans of the righteous are just, but the counsel of the wicked leads to deceit.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 16:17

The highway of the upright leads away from evil; he who guards his way protects his life.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 21:8, 15, 29

The way of a guilty man is crooked, but the conduct of the innocent is upright. / Justice executed is a joy to the righteous, but a terror to the workers of iniquity. / A wicked man hardens his face, but the upright man makes his way sure.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 22:1

A good name is more desirable than great riches; favor is better than silver and gold.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Ecclesiastes 7:1

A good name is better than fine perfume, and one’s day of death is better than his day of birth.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 4:3

Whoever remains in Zion and whoever is left in Jerusalem will be called holy—all in Jerusalem who are recorded among the living—

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 26:2, 8, 9

Open the gates so a righteous nation may enter—one that remains faithful. / Yes, we wait for You, O LORD; we walk in the path of Your judgments. Your name and renown are the desire of our souls. / My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 32:17

The work of righteousness will be peace; the service of righteousness will be quiet confidence forever.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 35:8

And there will be a highway called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel it—only those who walk in the Way—and fools will not stray onto it.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 51:7

Listen to Me, you who know what is right, you people with My law in your hearts: Do not fear the scorn of men; do not be broken by their insults.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 52:1, 11

Awake, awake, clothe yourself with strength, O Zion! Put on your garments of splendor, O Jerusalem, holy city! For the uncircumcised and unclean will no longer enter you. / Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 57:2

Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest, lying down in death.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 60:1, 21

Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you. / Then all your people will be righteous; they will possess the land forever; they are the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, so that I may be glorified.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 61:3

to console the mourners in Zion—to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Micah 6:8

He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Zephaniah 2:3

Seek the LORD, all you humble of the earth who carry out His justice. Seek righteousness; seek humility. Perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD’s anger.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Zechariah 8:3

This is what the LORD says: “I will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the LORD of Hosts will be called the Holy Mountain.”

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Zechariah 14:20, 21

On that day, HOLY TO THE LORD will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, and the cooking pots in the house of the LORD will be like the sprinkling bowls before the altar. / Indeed, every pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be holy to the LORD of Hosts, and all who sacrifice will come and take some pots and cook in them. And on that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the LORD of Hosts.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 5:6, 8, 29, 30, 48

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. / Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. / If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 12:33

Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Mark 9:49, 50

For everyone will be salted with fire. / Salt is good, but if the salt loses its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt among yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Luke 1:74, 75

deliverance from hostile hands, that we may serve Him without fear, / in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our lives.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Luke 6:45

The good man brings good things out of the good treasure of his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil treasure of his heart. For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning John 1:47

When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, He said of him, “Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit.”

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning John 4:14

But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning John 5:14

Afterward, Jesus found the man at the temple and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Stop sinning, or something worse may happen to you.”

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning John 6:35

Jesus answered, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning John 15:19

If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning John 17:23

I in them and You in Me—that they may be perfectly united, so that the world may know that You sent Me and have loved them just as You have loved Me.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Acts 24:16

In this hope, I strive always to maintain a clear conscience before God and man.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 2:28, 29

A man is not a Jew because he is one outwardly, nor is circumcision only outward and physical. / No, a man is a Jew because he is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a man’s praise does not come from men, but from God.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 6:1–23

What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase? / Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer? / Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 7:4, 6

Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God. / But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 8:1, 4, 12

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. / so that the righteous standard of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. / Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation, but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 11:16

If the first part of the dough is holy, so is the whole batch; if the root is holy, so are the branches.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 12:1, 2, 9

Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. / Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God. / Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 13:12–14

The night is nearly over; the day has drawn near. So let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. / Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. / Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 14:17

For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 16:19

Everyone has heard about your obedience, so I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise about what is good and innocent about what is evil.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Corinthians 3:16, 17

Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? / If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Corinthians 5:7

Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Corinthians 6:12, 13, 19, 20

“Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything. / “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. / 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;

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Corinthians 7:23

You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Corinthians 8:12

By sinning against your brothers in this way and wounding their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Corinthians 10:21, 31, 32

You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too. / So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God. / Do not become a stumbling block, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God—

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Corinthians 12:31

But eagerly desire the greater gifts. And now I will show you the most excellent way.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Corinthians 15:34

Sober up as you ought, and stop sinning; for some of you are ignorant of God. I say this to your shame.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning 2 Corinthians 6:14–17

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness? / What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? / What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning 2 Corinthians 7:1

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.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning 2 Corinthians 10:3, 5

For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh. / We tear down arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning 2 Corinthians 11:2

I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning 2 Corinthians 13:7, 8

Now we pray to God that you will not do anything wrong—not that we will appear to have stood the test, but that you will do what is right, even if we appear to have failed. / For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Galatians 2:17

But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are found to be sinners, does that make Christ a minister of sin? Certainly not!

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Galatians 5:22–25

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, / gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. / Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Galatians 6:15

For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything. What counts is a new creation.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Ephesians 1:4, 13, 14

For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love / And in Him, having heard and believed the word of truth—the gospel of your salvation—you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, / who is the pledge of our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession, to the praise of His glory.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Ephesians 2:21, 22

In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord. / And in Him you too are being built together into a dwelling place for God in His Spirit.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Ephesians 4:20–24

But this is not the way you came to know Christ. / Surely you heard of Him and were taught in Him—in keeping with the truth that is in Jesus— / to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Ephesians 5:1, 3, 8–11

Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children, / 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. / For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Philippians 1:10, 11

so that you may be able to test and prove what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, / filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Philippians 2:15

so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Philippians 4:8

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think on these things.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Colossians 1:22

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

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning Colossians 3:5–10, 12–15

Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry. / Because of these, the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience. / When you lived among them, you also used to walk in these ways.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Thessalonians 2:12

encouraging you, comforting you, and urging you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Thessalonians 3:13

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.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Thessalonians 4:3, 4, 7

For it is God’s 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, / For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.

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Holiness: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Thessalonians 5:5, 22, 23

For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day; we do not belong to the night or to the darkness. / Abstain from every form of evil. / Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your entire spirit, soul, and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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