Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.

But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.

Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.

Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.” Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky as you hold firmly to the word of life.

Seek good, not evil, that you may live. Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you, just as you say he is.

Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Praise the Lord, my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name.

But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”

For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.

He has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time.

I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them.

And so I will show my greatness and my holiness, and I will make myself known in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.

No one lights a lamp and hides it in a clay jar or puts it under a bed. Instead, they put it on a stand, so that those who come in can see the light.

He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.

It is a trap to dedicate something rashly and only later to consider one’s vows.

Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.

But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people.

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control your own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God.

There is no one holy like the Lord; there is no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God.

How can a young person stay on the path of purity? By living according to your word.

In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus.

I will show the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, the name you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Sovereign Lord, when I am proved holy through you before their eyes.

Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

And a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness; it will be for those who walk on that Way. The unclean will not journey on it; wicked fools will not go about on it.

For this is what the high and exalted One says— he who lives forever, whose name is holy: “I live in a high and holy place, but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.”

Sing to God, sing in praise of his name, extol him who rides on the clouds; rejoice before him—his name is the Lord. A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?