geneva - HOLINESS

geneva@Genesis:1:26 @ And God said, (note:)God commanded the water and the earth to bring forth other creatures: but of man he says, «Let us make...» signifying that God takes counsel with his wisdom and virtue purposing to make an excellent work above all the rest of his creation.(:note) Let us make man in our This image and likeness of God in man is expounded in (Eph_4:24) where it is written that man was created after God in righteousness and true holiness meaning by these two words, all perfection, as wisdom, truth, innocency, power, etc. image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

geneva@Exodus:21:14 @ But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine (note:)The holiness of the place should not defend the murderer.(:note) altar, that he may die.

geneva@Exodus:28:36 @ And thou shalt make a plate [of] pure gold, and grave upon it, [like] the engravings of a signet, (note:)Holiness belongs to the Lord: for he is most holy, and nothing unholy may appear before him.(:note) HOLINESS TO THE LORD.

geneva@1Kings:2:29 @ And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD; and, behold, [he is] by the (note:)Thinking to be saved by the holiness of the place.(:note) altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him.

geneva@2Chronicles:36:17 @ Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword (note:)Where they fled, thinking to have been saved for the holiness of it.(:note) in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he Which is not because God approves him, who yet is the minister of his justice, but because God would by his just judgment punish this people: for this king was led with ambition and vain glory, to which were joined fury and cruelty: therefore his work was condemnable, even though it was just and holy on God's part, who used this wicked instrument to declare his justice. gave [them] all into his hand.

geneva@Psalms:93:5 @ Thy (note:)Besides God's power and wisdom in creating and governing his great mercy also appears in that he has given his people his word and covenant.(:note) testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever.

geneva@Psalms:110:3 @ Thy people [shall be] willing in the day of (note:)By the word your people will be assembled into your Church...increase will be...anointed wonderful... drops of the...(:note) thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.

geneva@Proverbs:7:14 @ [I have] (note:)Because in peace offerings a portion is returned to them that offered, she shows him that she has meat at home to make good cheer with or else she would use some cloak of holiness till she had gotten him in her snares.(:note) peace offerings with me; this Which declares that harlots outwardly will seem holy and religious: both because they may better deceive others, and also thinking to observe ceremonies and offerings to make satisfaction for their sins. day have I paid my vows.

geneva@Isaiah:1:17 @ Learn to (note:)This kind of reasoning by the second table, the scriptures use in many places against the hypocrites who pretend holiness and religion in word, but when charity and love for their brethren should appear they declare that they have neither faith nor religion.(:note) do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

geneva@Isaiah:23:18 @ And her merchandise and her hire shall be (note:)He shows that God yet by the preaching of the gospel will call Tyre to repentance and turn her heart from evil and filthy gain, to the true worshipping of God, and liberality toward his saints.(:note) holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, for sufficient food and for durable clothing.

geneva@Isaiah:63:18 @ The people of thy holiness have possessed [it] but a little (note:)That is, in respect to the promise, which is perpetual: even though they had now possessed the land of Canaan for 1400 years: and thus they lament, to move God rather to remember his covenant, than to punish their sins.(:note) while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

geneva@Jeremiah:2:3 @ Israel [was] (note:)Chosen above all others to serve the Lord only and the first offered to the Lord of all other nations.(:note) holiness to the LORD, [and] the firstfruits of his increase: all Whoever challenged this people, or else annoyed them, was punished. that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:7:11 @ Is this house, which is called by my name, become (note:)As thieves hidden in holes and dens think themselves safe, so when you are in my temple, you think to be covered with the holiness of it, and that I cannot see your wickedness, (Mat_21:13).(:note) a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen [it], saith the LORD.

geneva@Daniel:3:1 @ Nebuchadnezzar the king made (note:)Under pretence of religion, and holiness in making an image to his idol Bel, he sought his own ambition and vain glory: and this declares that he was not touched with the true fear of God before, but that he confessed him on a sudden motion, as the wicked when they are overcome with the greatness of his works. The Greek interpreters write that this was done eighteen years after the dream, and as may appear, the King feared lest the Jews by their religion should have altered the state of his commonwealth: therefore he meant to bring all to one type of religion, and so rather sought his own peace than God's glory.(:note) an image of gold, whose height [was] threescore cubits, [and] the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.

geneva@Hosea:6:4 @ O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for (note:)You seem to have a certain holiness and repentance, but it is very sudden, and as a morning cloud.(:note) your goodness [is] as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.

geneva@Zechariah:14:20 @ In that day there shall be upon the (note:)Signifying to whatever service they were put now (whether to labour, or to serve in war), they were now holy, because the Lord had sanctified them.(:note)...bells of the horses, HOLINESS TO...The one as precious as the other, because they will be sanctified. pots in the LORD'S house shall be like the bowls before the altar.

geneva@Zechariah:14:21 @ Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness to the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and boil in them: and in that day there shall be no more the (note:)But all will be pure and clean, and there will neither by hypocrites, nor any that will corrupt the true service of God.(:note) Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Malachi:2:11 @ Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the (note:)They have united themselves in marriage with those that are of another religion.(:note) daughter of a strange god.

geneva@Matthew:3:1 @ In (note:)Not when Joseph went to dwell at Nazareth, but a great while after, about fifteen years: for in the 30th year of his life Jesus was baptized by John: therefore «those days» means the time when Jesus remained as an inhabitant of the town of Nazareth.(:note) those days came John, who through his singular holiness and rare austerity of life caused men to cast their eyes on him, prepares the way for Christ who is following fast on his heels, as the prophet Isaiah foretold, and delivers the sum of the gospel, which a short time later would be delivered more fully. John the Baptist, preaching in the In a hilly country, which was nonetheless inhabited, for Zacharias dwelt there, (Luk_1:39-40), and there was Joab's house, (1Ki_2:34); and besides these, Joshua makes mention of six towns that were in the wilderness, (Jos_15:61-62). wilderness of Judaea,

geneva@Luke:1:75 @ In holiness and righteousness (note:)To God's good liking.(:note) before him, all the days of our life.

geneva@Acts:2:14 @ But Peter, standing up with the eleven, (note:)The holiness of Peter is to be marked, in which the grace of the Holy Spirit is to be seen, even from the very beginning.(:note) lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all [ye] that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:

geneva@Romans:2:27 @ And shall not (note:)He who is uncircumcised by nature and race.(:note) uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the Paul often contrasts the letter against the Spirit: but in this place, the circumcision which is according to the letter is the cutting off of the foreskin, but the circumcision of the Spirit is the circumcision of the heart, that is to say, the spiritual result of the ceremony is true holiness and righteousness, by which the people of God are known from profane and heathen men. letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?

geneva@Romans:11:21 @ For if God spared not the (note:)He calls them natural, not because they had any holiness by nature, but because they were born of those whom the Lord set apart for himself from other nations, by his league and covenant which he freely made with them.(:note) natural branches, [take heed] lest he also spare not thee.

geneva@2Corinthians:7:1 @ Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the (note:)Both of body and soul, that by this means the sanctification may be perfect, consisting in both the parts of the flesh.(:note) flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

geneva@Galatians:2:4 @ And that because of (note:)Who by deceit and counterfeit holiness crept in among the faithful.(:note) false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

geneva@Galatians:5:25 @ If we (note:)If we are indeed endued with the quickening Spirit, who causes us to die to sin, and live to God, let us show it in our deeds, that is, by holiness of life.(:note) live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

geneva@1Peter:2:5 @ Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, (note:)Continuing, he compares us now to priests, placed for this purpose in the spiritual temple, that we should serve him with a spiritual worship, that is, with holiness and righteousness: but as the temple, so is the priesthood built upon Christ, in who alone all our spiritual offerings are accepted.(:note) an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

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