Verses about holiness

In the year of the death of King Uzziah, I saw Adonai sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and his skirts filled the temple. Seraphim were standing above him; six wings, six wings to each one; with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one called to another and said, “Holy, holy, holy is YHWH Tsevaot; the fullness of all the earth is his glory.” And the pivots of the thresholds shook at the voice of the one who called, and the house was filling with smoke. And I said, “Woe to me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and in the midst of a people of unclean lips I dwell; for the King, YHWH Tsevaot, my eyes have seen.”

Who is like you among the gods, YHWH? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in praises, doing wonders?

There is none holy like YHWH, for there is no one besides you; and there is no Rock like our Elohim.

YHWH reigns; let the peoples shudder; he who sits upon the cherubim, let the earth tremble. YHWH in Zion is great, and exalted is he above all the peoples. Let them give thanks to your name, great and fearsome; holy is he. And the strength of the king loves justice; you have established uprightness; justice and righteousness in Jacob you have done. Exalt YHWH our Elohim, and bow down at the footstool of his feet; holy is he.

And the four living creatures, each of them having six wings apiece, are full of eyes all around and within; and they have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God the Almighty, who was and who is and who is coming.” And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to the one who sits on the throne, who lives to the ages of the ages, the twenty-four elders will fall down before the one who sits on the throne and will worship the one who lives to the ages of the ages, and will cast their crowns before the throne, saying, “Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power, for you created all things, and because of your will they existed and were created.”

For the name of YHWH I will proclaim; ascribe greatness to our Elohim. The Rock: his work is blameless, for all his ways are justice. An El of faithfulness and without injustice, righteous and upright is he.

Righteous is YHWH in all his ways, and faithful in all his works.

Abraham came near and said, “Will you really sweep away the righteous with the wicked? Perhaps there are fifty righteous within the city; will you really sweep away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous who are in it? Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put to death the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous fare like the wicked! Far be it from you! Shall the Judge of all the earth not do justice?”

For YHWH is righteous; he loves acts of righteousness; the upright will see his face.

YHWH reigns; let the earth rejoice; let the many coastlands be glad. Cloud and thick cloud surround him; righteousness and justice are the base of his throne.

For YHWH your Elohim, he is Elohim of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and fearsome El, who does not show favoritism and does not take a bribe. He does justice for the orphan and the widow, and loves the resident alien, giving him bread and a cloak.

Therefore, men of heart, listen to me: far be it from El to do wickedness, and from Shaddai to do injustice. For the work of a human being he repays to him, and according to the path of a man he makes it find him. Yes, truly, El does not act wickedly, and Shaddai does not pervert justice.

Thus says YHWH: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast in his might; let not the rich man boast in his riches; but in this let the one who boasts boast: in having understanding and knowing me, that I am YHWH, who practices loyal love, justice, and righteousness in the earth; for in these things I delight, declares YHWH.

But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been made manifest, being testified to by the law and the prophets, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus the Messiah for all who believe; for there is no distinction, for all sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being declared righteous freely by his grace through the redemption that is in the Messiah Jesus, whom God put forward as a cover of expiation through faith, in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness, because of the passing over of the sins committed beforehand in the forbearance of God; for the demonstration of his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be righteous and the one who declares righteous the one who is of faith in Jesus.

Elohim is a righteous judge, and an El who is indignant every day. If he does not turn back, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent his bow and made it ready. And for him he has prepared weapons of death; he makes his arrows fiery.

And YHWH said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and look, it is a stubborn people. Now let me alone, so that my anger may burn against them and I may consume them; and I will make you into a great nation.” But Moses pleaded before YHWH his Elohim and said, “Why, YHWH, does your anger burn against your people, whom you brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a strong hand? Why should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil intent he brought them out, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the ground’? Turn from the heat of your anger and relent concerning the evil planned against your people. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by yourself and said to them, ‘I will multiply your offspring like the stars of the heavens, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.’” And YHWH relented concerning the evil that he had said he would do to his people.

Look, the hand of YHWH has not grown too short to save, nor his ear too heavy to hear. But your iniquities have been what separates between you and your Elohim, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.

A jealous and avenging El is YHWH; avenging is YHWH and a master of fury; avenging is YHWH on his adversaries, and he holds it against his enemies. YHWH is slow to anger and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. YHWH, in the whirlwind and in the storm is his way, and clouds are the dust of his feet.

For Adonai does not reject forever. For though he afflicts, he will also have compassion according to the abundance of his loyal loves. For he does not afflict from his heart or grieve the sons of man.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth by unrighteousness,

But by your hardness and your heart without change of mind you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath and of revelation of the righteous judgment of God, who will repay each one according to his works: to those who by perseverance in good work seek glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life; but to those who are of rivalry and disobey the truth but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.

For this you know, recognizing that no sexually immoral or impure or greedy person, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of the Messiah and of God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have gratitude, through which let us worship God in a pleasing way, with reverence and awe; for indeed our God is a consuming fire.

And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to all the community of the sons of Israel and say to them: You shall be holy, for I, YHWH your Elohim, am holy.

For I am YHWH your Elohim; sanctify yourselves and be holy, for I am holy. And do not make yourselves unclean with any swarming thing that creeps on the earth. For I am YHWH who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your Elohim; so you shall be holy, for I am holy.”

He has announced to you, human being, what is good; and what does YHWH seek from you but to do justice, and to love loyal love, and to walk humbly with your Elohim?

Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, I also sent them into the world. And for their sake I sanctify myself, so that they too may be sanctified in truth.

As children of obedience, not conforming yourselves to the desires you had formerly in your ignorance, but as the one who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, You shall be holy, because I am holy.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s possession, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. you who once were not a people, but now are the people of God; who had not received mercy, but now have received mercy.

For God did not call us to impurity but in sanctification.

Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of flesh and spirit, completing holiness in the fear of God.

Pursue peace with everyone, and sanctification, without which no one will see the Lord,