Bible Verses About Being Set Apart
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for being set apart, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 9,222 votes, led by Romans 12:2. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Being Set Apart
Romans 12:2802 votes
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
1 Peter 2:9655 votes
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
John 17:15-18360 votes
I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
John 15:19336 votes
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Ephesians 2:10287 votes
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Galatians 2:20257 votes
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
1 Peter 1:16232 votes
Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
2 Corinthians 6:14-18226 votes
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Romans 12:1202 votes
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
1 Corinthians 6:19187 votes
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
Romans 12:1-2178 votes
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
2 Corinthians 5:17163 votes
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
2 Corinthians 7:1161 votes
Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Romans 13:14160 votes
But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Romans 1:1-32150 votes
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
1 Peter 2:1-25143 votes
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
Colossians 3:10139 votes
And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
2 Corinthians 6:17114 votes
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
Galatians 5:16114 votes
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Romans 1:1113 votes
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
2 Timothy 2:21112 votes
If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.
Romans 8:28102 votes
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Romans 8:997 votes
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
Deuteronomy 14:291 votes
For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
Psalms 4:390 votes
But know that the Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the Lord will hear when I call unto him.
What does the Bible say about being set apart?
Readers most often cite Romans 12:2 on the subject of being set apart. Across 9,222 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Peter 2:9, John 17:15-18, John 15:19. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.