Bible Verses About Set Apart
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for set apart, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 755 votes, led by 1 Peter 2:9. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Set Apart
1 Peter 2:950 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:
Psalms 4:344 votes
But know that the Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the Lord will hear when I call unto him.
2 Corinthians 7:130 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.
Deuteronomy 14:225 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.
Romans 12:223 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.
Romans 12:122 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 Peter 1:1621 votes
Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
Galatians 2:2020 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.
Ephesians 2:1020 votes
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Colossians 3:1019 votes
And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
2 Corinthians 5:1718 votes
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Hebrews 12:1418 votes
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
2 Thessalonians 2:1317 votes
But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
1 John 2:1517 votes
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
John 15:1916 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.
Romans 12:1-216 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.
James 1:2716 votes
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
1 Peter 2:1-2516 votes
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
John 17:15-1815 votes
I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
Romans 1:1-3215 votes
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
Romans 13:1415 votes
But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
1 Corinthians 6:1915 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?
Leviticus 19:214 votes
Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy.
1 Peter 1:13-1614 votes
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
Genesis 2:313 votes
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
What does the Bible say about set apart?
Readers most often cite 1 Peter 2:9 on the subject of set apart. Across 755 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Psalms 4:3, 2 Corinthians 7:1, Deuteronomy 14:2. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.