Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God.
For I am the Lord your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground.
“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.
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.”
even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness.
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality;
Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
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