The word in Scripture

Holiness in the Bible

The word holiness appears 43 times in the King James Version of the Bible. Holiness is the moral purity and set-apartness of God, and the life He calls His people to. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What holiness means in the Bible

Holiness is the moral purity and set-apartness of God, and the life He calls His people to.

Where the word holiness appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word holiness appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.”Psalms 48:1

“God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.”Psalms 60:6

“The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.”Isaiah 63:18

“In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.”Luke 1:75

“And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:”Romans 1:4

“But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.”Romans 6:22

“And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.”Ephesians 4:24

“Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:”Hebrews 12:14