Leviticus 20:7
Good News Translation
Keep yourselves holy, because I am the LORD your God.

New Revised Standard Version
Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am the LORD your God.

Contemporary English Version
Dedicate yourselves to me and be holy because I am the LORD your God.

New American Bible
Sanctify yourselves, then, and be holy; for I, the LORD, your God, am holy.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Sanctify yourselves, and be ye holy: because I am the Lord your God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Sanctify yourselves, and be ye holy: because I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 11:44 For I am the Lord your God. Be holy because I am holy. Defile not your souls by any creeping thing, that moveth upon the earth.

Leviticus 19:2 Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel. And thou shalt say to them: Be ye holy, because I the Lord your God am holy.

Ephesians 1:4 As he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and unspotted in his sight in charity.

Colossians 3:12 Put ye on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, the bowels of mercy, benignity, humility, modesty, patience:

1 Thessalonians 4:3,7 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: That you should abstain from fornication: . . .

Hebrews 12:14 Follow peace with all men and holiness: without which no man shall see God.

1 Peter 1:15,16 But according to him that hath called you, who is holy, be you also in all manner of conversation holy: . . .

Context
Punishments for Disobedience
6The soul that shall go aside after magicians, and soothsayers, and shall commit fornication with them: I will set my face against that soul, and destroy it out of the midst of its people. 7Sanctify yourselves, and be ye holy: because I am the Lord your God.8Keep my precepts, and do them. I am the Lord that sanctify you.…
Cross References
Ephesians 1:4
As he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and unspotted in his sight in charity.

1 Peter 1:16
Because it is written: You shall be holy, for I am holy.

Leviticus 19:2
Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel. And thou shalt say to them: Be ye holy, because I the Lord your God am holy.

Joshua 24:19
And Joshua said to the people: You will not be able to serve the Lord: for he is a holy God, and mighty and jealous, and will not forgive your wickedness and sins.

Leviticus 20:6
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