Bible Verses about “living holy”

“And 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.”

“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?”

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

“And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.”

“Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.”

“¶ I 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.”

“Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:”

“Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.”

“Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.”

“Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:”

“But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and [be] ready always to [give] an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:”

“But 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:”

“Neither give place to the devil.”

“Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with [his] hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.”

“For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:”

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

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

“And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;”

“That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;”

“And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.”

“¶ Finally, [be ye] all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, [be] pitiful, [be] courteous:”

“Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:”

“And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.”

“Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.”

“Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.”

“¶ Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;”

“For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.”

“Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.”

“Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:”

“¶ For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:”

“‹Blessed› [are] ‹the pure in heart: for they shall see God.›”

“And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.”

“Be not ye therefore partakers with them.”

“For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:”

“Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.”

“Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.”

“¶ This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,”

“¶ Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.”

“But ye have not so learned Christ;”

“If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:”

“For the eyes of the Lord [are] over the righteous, and his ears [are open] unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord [is] against them that do evil.”

“Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.”

“For [it is] better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.”

“But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy [are ye]: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;”

“¶ And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;”

“And who [is] he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good?”

“¶ Wherefore 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;”

“And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.”

“And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;”

“¶ If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.”