100 Bible Verses About God's Holiness

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:

I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.

And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the Lord, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.

Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am the Lord.

Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.

When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.

And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.

Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.

Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.

Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.

Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:

Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the Lord.

For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the Lord.

I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.

What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.

Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.

The Lord is great in Zion; and he is high above all the people.

Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.

Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey.

Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.

And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.

And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the Lord.

I am the Lord, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.

Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the Lord: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.

But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man’s wife.

For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord; and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it.

Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the Lord.

To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?

As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the Lord caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.

And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?

Thou answeredst them, O Lord our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions.

For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.

Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.

The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.

Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.

The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?

Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.

I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore.

His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the Lord:

He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.

He is the Lord our God: his judgments are in all the earth.

And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned this time: the Lord is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The Lord of hosts is his name.

The Lord reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth be moved.

That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?

Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy.

And the idols he shall utterly abolish.

The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory.

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

And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.

We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.

And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;

And Moses said unto the Lord, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.

And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.

Praise ye the Lord. Praise, O ye servants of the Lord, praise the name of the Lord.

Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.

And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.

For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the Lord is not turned back from us.

Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts.

And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.

So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.

I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of hosts.

For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.

O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.

And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the Lord. And they did so.

And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.

Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.

And the Lord said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the Lord, lest he break forth upon them.

Israel was holiness unto the Lord, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the Lord.

But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the Lord; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.

And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.

Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.

O 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.

O Lord God of hosts, who is a strong Lord like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?

Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

For thou, Lord, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods.

Wherefore glorify ye the Lord in the fires, even the name of the Lord God of Israel in the isles of the sea.

All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall sing to thy name. Selah.

For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;

And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.

Blessed be the Lord for evermore. Amen, and Amen.

Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O Lord; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.

Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the Lord.