– Quality or virtue of a saint; sacred character, required by God of his people:
Leviticus 11:44-45 : For I am the Lord your God. You shall sanctify yourselves and be holy, because I am holy.
Leviticus 19 :2 : Be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.
Leviticus 20 :7, 26 : Sanctify yourselves and be holy, for I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 21:8: Thou shalt call the priest holy, because he offers the bread of thy God.
Leviticus 22:32-33 : Do not profane my holy name, and I will be sanctified among the Israelites.
Deut 7:6: Because you are a people consecrated to the Lord your God, who chose you to be his people.
Heb 12:10 : Whereas this one does it for our good, to communicate his holiness to us.
1Pt 1,15-16 : Following the example of the holiness of him who called you, be holy in all your actions.
1Jn 3,3-4 : And everyone who has this hope in him becomes pure, as he is pure.
– Paul writes about the constitutive elements of holiness:
Rom 6:19 : So now put your members in the service of justice to arrive at holiness.
Rom 12 :1 : Brethren, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God.
2Cor 1,12 : In the world and particularly among you, we have acted with holiness and sincerity before God.
2Cor 7,1 : Let us purify ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, fully realizing our sanctification.
Eph 4,20-22 : Renounce your past life, put off the old man corrupted by deceitful lusts.
Col 3:10 : And you put on the new thing, […] until you reached perfect knowledge.
1Tm 2,15 : Fulfilling the duties of a mother, as long as she remains with modesty in faith, charity and holiness.
1Th 2,1-10 : You are witnesses, and so is God, how holy, just and blameless we behaved towards you.
1Th 3:13 : May he establish your hearts, and make them blameless and holy.
– Peter also addresses the subject in his letters:
1Pet 4:14 , 17 : If you are insulted for the name of Christ, blessed are you.
2Pt 3:11 : Since all these things will fall apart, consider what the holiness of your life should be.
