What is Holy to God
You are to distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean, and you are to teach the people of Israel all the statutes that the LORD has spoken to them by Moses. -- Leviticus 10:10-11 (ESV)
Holy Sabbath
Time is the first thing God declared Holy:
So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. -- Genesis 2:3 (ESV)
And when all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses, he said to them, “This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Tomorrow is a day of solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD; bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and all that is left over lay aside to be kept till the morning.’”
So they laid it aside till the morning, as Moses commanded them, and it did not stink, and there were no worms in it.
Moses said, “Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to the LORD; today you will not find it in the field. Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, which is a Sabbath, there will be none.”
-- Exodus 16:22-26 (ESV)
“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.” -- Exodus 20:8-11 (ESV)
You shall keep the Sabbath, because it is holy for you. Everyone who profanes it shall be put to death. Whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall be put to death. -- Exodus 31:14-15 (ESV)
Six days work shall be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to death. -- Exodus 35:2 (ESV)
Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you. -- Deuteronomy 5:12 (ESV)
Holy Assembly
On the first day you shall hold a holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly. No work shall be done on those days. But what everyone needs to eat, that alone may be prepared by you. And you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day, throughout your generations, as a statute forever. Exodus 12:16-17 (ESV)
Holy Place
When the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” 5 Then he said, “Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.” -- Exodus 3:4-5 (ESV)
You have led in Your steadfast love the people whom You have redeemed; You have guided them by Your strength to Your holy abode. -- Exodus 15:13 (ESV)
And the veil shall separate for you the Holy Place from the Most Holy. You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony in the Most Holy Place. -- Exodus 26:33-34 (ESV)
And it shall be on Aaron when he ministers, and its sound shall be heard when he goes into the Holy Place before the LORD, and when he comes out, so that he does not die. -- Exodus 28:35 (ESV)
You shall make for them linen undergarments to cover their naked flesh. They shall reach from the hips to the thighs; and they shall be on Aaron and on his sons when they go into the tent of meeting or when they come near the altar to minister in the Holy Place, lest they bear guilt and die. -- Exodus 28:42-43 (ESV)
The son who succeeds him as priest, who comes into the tent of meeting to minister in the Holy Place, shall wear them seven days. You shall take the ram of ordination and boil its flesh in a holy place. -- Exodus 29:31 (ESV)
Then you shall take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and consecrate it and all its furniture, so that it may become holy. You shall also anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and consecrate the altar, so that the altar may become most holy. You shall also anoint the basin and its stand, and consecrate it. Exodus 40:9-11 (ESV)
And the commander of the LORD'S army said to Joshua, “Take off your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so. -- Joshua 5:15 (ESV)
Holy Nation
The LORD called to him out of the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the people of Israel: You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself. Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ -- Exodus 19:3-6 (ESV)
And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy. -- Leviticus 19:1-2 (ESV)
Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the LORD your God. -- Leviticus 20:7 (ESV)
Holy Garments
And you shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty. These are the garments that they shall make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a coat of checker work, a turban, and a sash. They shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons to serve me as priests. Exodus 28:2-4 (ESV)
He and his (Holy Priest) garments shall be holy, and his sons and his sons' garments with him. -- Exodus 29:21 (ESV)
The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him; they shall be anointed in them and ordained in them. -- Exodus 29:29 (ESV)
Holy Offerings
Aaron shall bear any guilt from the holy things that the people of Israel consecrate as their holy gifts. -- Exodus 28:38 (ESV)
But the rest of the grain offering shall be for Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the LORD'S food offerings. -- Leviticus 2:3,10 (ESV)
Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering. In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the LORD; it is most holy. The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. In a holy place it shall be eaten, in the court of the tent of meeting. Whatever touches its flesh shall be holy, and when any of its blood is splashed on a garment, you shall wash that on which it was splashed in a holy place. And the earthenware vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken. But if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, that shall be scoured and rinsed in water. Every male among the priests may eat of it; it is most holy. But no sin offering shall be eaten from which any blood is brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place; it shall be burned up with fire. -- Leviticus 6:25-30
When you come into the land and plant any kind of tree for food, then you shall regard its fruit as forbidden. Three years it shall be forbidden to you; it must not be eaten. And in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, an offering of praise to the LORD. -- Leviticus 19:23-24
“When a man dedicates his house as a holy gift to the LORD, the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand. -- Leviticus 27:14 (ESV)
But the field, when it is released in the jubilee, shall be a holy gift to the LORD, like a field that has been devoted. The priest shall be in possession of it. If he dedicates to the LORD a field that he has bought, which is not a part of his possession, then the priest shall calculate the amount of the valuation for it up to the year of jubilee, and the man shall give the valuation on that day as a holy gift to the LORD. -- Leviticus 27:21-23 (ESV)
“But no devoted thing that a man devotes to the LORD, of anything that he has, whether man or beast, or of his inherited field, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the LORD. No one devoted, who is to be devoted for destruction from mankind, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death. Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the LORD'S; it is holy to the LORD. Leviticus 27:28-30 (ESV)
And every contribution, all the holy donations of the people of Israel, which they bring to the priest, shall be his. 10 Each one shall keep his holy donations: whatever anyone gives to the priest shall be his. -- Numbers 5:9-10 (ESV)
Holy Crown
“You shall make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, like the engraving of a signet, Holy to the LORD.’ -- Exodus 28:36 (ESV)
And you shall set the turban on his (the priest's) head and put the holy crown on the turban. -- Exodus 29:6 (ESV)
They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it an inscription, like the engraving of a signet, “Holy to the LORD.” -- Exodus 39:30 (ESV)
Holy Priests
He and his garments shall be holy, and his sons and his sons' garments with him. -- Exodus 29:21 (ESV)
And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram and the bread that is in the basket in the entrance of the tent of meeting. They shall eat those things with which atonement was made at their ordination and consecration, but an outsider shall not eat of them, because they are holy. -- Exodus 29:32-33 (ESV)
You shall consecrate them, that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them will become holy. You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests. -- Exodus 30:29-30 (ESV)
And the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, No one shall make himself unclean for the dead among his people, except for his closest relatives, his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother, or his virgin sister (who is near to him because she has had no husband; for her he may make himself unclean). He shall not make himself unclean as a husband among his people and so profane himself. They shall not make bald patches on their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuts on their body. They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God. For they offer the LORD'S food offerings, the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy. They shall not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been defiled, neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God. You shall sanctify him, for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you, for I, the LORD, who sanctify you, am holy. And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by whoring, profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire. -- Leviticus 21:1-9 (ESV)
For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens. -- Hebrews 7:26 (ESV)
Holy Anointing Oil
And you shall say to the people of Israel, ‘This shall be My holy anointing oil throughout your generations. It shall not be poured on the body of an ordinary person, and you shall make no other like it in composition. It is holy, and it shall be holy to you. Whoever compounds any like it or whoever puts any of it on an outsider shall be cut off from his people. -- Exodus 30:33 (ESV)
Holy Incense
The LORD said to Moses, “Take sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum, sweet spices with pure frankincense (of each shall there be an equal part), and make an incense blended as by the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy. You shall beat some of it very small, and put part of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting where I shall meet with you. It shall be most holy for you. And the incense that you shall make according to its composition, you shall not make for yourselves. It shall be for you holy to the LORD. Whoever makes any like it to use as perfume shall be cut off from his people.” Exodus 30:34-38 (ESV)
Holy Altar
You shall also anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and consecrate the altar, so that the altar may become most holy. -- Exodus 40:10 (ESV)
Holy God
For I am the LORD your God. Consecrate yourselves (set yourself apart) therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground. For I am the LORD who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.” -- Leviticus 11:44-45 (ESV)
And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy. -- Leviticus 19:1-2 (ESV)
But Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the LORD, for He is a holy God. He is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions or your sins. -- Joshua 24:19 (ESV)
There is none holy like the LORD: for there is none besides you. -- 1 Samuel 2:2 (ESV)
Then the men of Beth-shemesh said, “Who is able to stand before the LORD, this holy God? -- 1 Samuel 6:20 (ESV)
I will not execute my burning anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and not a man, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come in wrath. -- Hosea 11:9 (ESV)
Are you not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? -- Habakkuk 1:12 (ESV)
“Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!” -- Revelation 4:8 (ESV)
Holy Name
And you shall not profane My holy name, that I may be sanctified among the people of Israel. -- Leviticus 22:32 (ESV)
Glory in His holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice! -- 1 Chronicles 16:10 (ESV)
Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather and deliver us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name and glory in your praise. -- 1 Chronicles 16:35 (ESV)
Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came. And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes. -- Ezekiel 36:22-23 (ESV)
Holy Water
And the priest shall take holy water in an earthenware vessel and take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water. -- Numbers 5:17 (ESV)
Holy Treasures
But all silver and gold, and every vessel of bronze and iron, are holy to the LORD; they shall go into the treasury of the LORD. -- Joshua 6:19 (ESV)
Holy Temple
I will bow down toward your holy temple in the fear of you. -- Psalm 5:7 (ESV)
The LORD is in His holy temple; -- Psalm 11:4 (ESV)
I bow down toward Your holy temple and give thanks to Your name for Your steadfast love and Your faithfulness, for You have exalted above all things Your name and Your word. -- Psalm 138:2 (ESV)
So Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of the LORD: the golden altar, the golden table for the bread of the Presence, 49 the lampstands of pure gold, five on the south side and five on the north, before the inner sanctuary; the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of gold; 50 the cups, snuffers, basins, dishes for incense, and fire pans, of pure gold; and the sockets of gold, for the doors of the innermost part of the house, the Most Holy Place, and for the doors of the nave of the temple. -- 1 Kings 7:48-50
But the LORD is in His holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him.” -- Habakkuk 2:20 (ESV)
Then I said, ‘I am driven away from Your sight; yet I shall again look upon Your holy temple.’ -- Jonah 2:4 (ESV)
Holy Ark
And he said to the Levites who taught all Israel and who were holy to the LORD, “Put the holy ark in the house that Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, built. -- 2 Chronicles 35:3 (ESV)
Holy Spirit
Cast me not away from your presence, and take not Your Holy Spirit from me. -- Psalm 51:11 (ESV)
But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit -- Isaiah 63:10 (ESV)
Where is He Who put in the midst of them His Holy Spirit, Who caused His glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses, Who divided the waters before them to make for Himself an everlasting name, Who led them through the depths? -- Isaiah 63:11-13 (ESV)
Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. -- Matthew 1:18 (ESV)
He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. -- Matthew 3:11 (ESV)
And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come. -- Matthew 12:32 (ESV)
Holy Mountain
Blow a trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm on My holy mountain! -- Joel 2:1 (ESV)
So you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain. -- Joel 3:17 (ESV)
For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations shall drink continually -- Obadiah 1:16 (ESV)
Holy Land
And the LORD will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.” -- Zechariah 2:12 (ESV)
Holy Son of God
And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy — the Son of God. -- Luke 1:35 (ESV)
“What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are — the Holy One of God.” -- Mark 1:24 (ESV); Luke 4:34
Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.” -- John 6:68-69 (ESV)
For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, or let your Holy One see corruption. -- Psalm 16:10 (ESV) quoted by Acts 2:27, 13:35; Hebrews 7:26)
Holy Children
Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work. -- 2 Timothy 2:21 (ESV)
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” -- 1 Peter 1:14-16 (ESV)
Holy Prophets
This is now the second letter that I am writing to you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder, that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostle. -- 2 Peter 3:1-2 (ESV)
Holy City
And Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall never again pass through it. -- Joel 3:17 (ESV)
And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, having the glory of God, its radiance like a most rare jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. -- Revelation 21:10-11 (ESV)