Leviticus 20:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So make and keep yourselves holy, for I am the Lord your God.

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Referenced Verses

  • Eph 1:4 : 4 Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:
  • Lev 11:44 : 44 For I am the Lord your God: for this reason, make and keep yourselves holy, for I am holy; you are not to make yourselves unclean with any sort of thing which goes about flat on the earth.
  • Lev 19:2 : 2 Say to all the people of Israel, You are to be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.
  • Phil 2:12-13 : 12 So then, my loved ones, as you have at all times done what I say, not only when I am present, but now much more when I am not with you, give yourselves to working out your salvation with fear in your hearts; 13 For it is God who is the cause of your desires and of your acts, for his good pleasure.
  • Col 3:12 : 12 As saints of God, then, holy and dearly loved, let your behaviour be marked by pity and mercy, kind feeling, a low opinion of yourselves, gentle ways, and a power of undergoing all things;
  • 1 Thess 4:3 : 3 For the purpose of God for you is this: that you may be holy, and may keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh;
  • 1 Thess 4:7 : 7 Because it is God's purpose that our way of life may be not unclean but holy.
  • Heb 12:14 : 14 Let your desire be for peace with all men, and to be made holy, without which no man may see the Lord;
  • 1 Pet 1:15-16 : 15 But be holy in every detail of your lives, as he, whose servants you are, is holy; 16 Because it has been said in the Writings, You are to be holy, for I am holy.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 20:25-26
    2 verses
    87%

    25 So then, make division between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the clean bird and the unclean: do not make yourselves disgusting by any beast or bird or anything which goes flat on the earth, which has been marked by me as unclean for you.

    26 And you are to be holy to me; for I the Lord am holy and have made you separate from the nations, so that you may be my people.

  • 8 And keep my rules and do them: I am the Lord, who make you holy.

  • Lev 19:1-4
    4 verses
    87%

    1 And the Lord said to Moses,

    2 Say to all the people of Israel, You are to be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.

    3 Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

    4 Do not go after false gods, and do not make metal images of gods for yourselves: I am the Lord your God.

  • Lev 11:44-45
    2 verses
    84%

    44 For I am the Lord your God: for this reason, make and keep yourselves holy, for I am holy; you are not to make yourselves unclean with any sort of thing which goes about flat on the earth.

    45 For I am the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God; so be you holy, for I am holy.

  • 8 And he is to be holy in your eyes, for by him the bread of your God is offered; he is to be holy in your eyes, for I the Lord, who make you holy, am holy.

  • Lev 19:30-31
    2 verses
    82%

    30 Keep my Sabbaths and have respect for my holy place: I am the Lord.

    31 Do not go after those who make use of spirits, or wonder-workers; do not go in their ways or become unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.

  • 81%

    15 But be holy in every detail of your lives, as he, whose servants you are, is holy;

    16 Because it has been said in the Writings, You are to be holy, for I am holy.

  • Lev 18:29-30
    2 verses
    80%

    29 For all those who do any of these disgusting things will be cut off from among their people.

    30 So then, keep my orders, so that you may not do any of these disgusting things which were done before you, or make yourselves unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.

  • 7 And I said to them, Let every man among you put away the disgusting things to which his eyes are turned, and do not make yourselves unclean with the images of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.

  • Lev 22:31-33
    3 verses
    79%

    31 So then, keep my orders and do them: I am the Lord.

    32 And do not make my holy name common; so that it may be kept holy by the children of Israel: I am the Lord who make you holy,

    33 Who took you out of the land of Egypt that I might be your God: I am the Lord.

  • 2 Keep my Sabbaths and give honour to my holy place: I am the Lord.

  • 78%

    19 I am the Lord your God; be guided by my rules and keep my orders and do them:

    20 And keep my Sabbaths holy; and they will be a sign between me and you so that it may be clear to you that I am the Lord your God.

  • Lev 22:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

    1 And the Lord said to Moses,

    2 Give orders to Aaron and to his sons to keep themselves separate from the holy things of the children of Israel which they give to me, and not to make my holy name common: I am the Lord,

    3 Say to them, If any man of all your seed through all your generations, being unclean, comes near the holy things which the children of Israel make holy to the Lord, he will be cut off from before me: I am the Lord.

  • 2 Say to the children of Israel, I am the Lord your God.

  • 6 And whoever goes after those who make use of spirits and wonder-workers, doing evil with them, against him will my face be turned, and he will be cut off from among his people.

  • 29 And you are to make them most holy; anything touching them will become holy.

  • 17 For which cause, Come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and let no unclean thing come near you; and I will take you for myself,

  • 9 So then, let them keep what I have put into their care, for fear that sin may come on them because of it, so causing their death because they have made it common: I am the Lord, who make them holy.

  • 37 You are to keep all my rules and my decisions and do them: I am the Lord.

  • 22 And let the priests who come near to the Lord make themselves holy, for fear that the Lord may come on them suddenly.

  • 10 And make a division between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;

  • 13 Up! make the people holy; say to them, Make yourselves holy before tomorrow, for the Lord, the God of Israel, has said, There is a cursed thing among you, O Israel, and you will give way before your attackers in the fight till the cursed thing has been taken away from among you.

  • 6 Let them be holy to their God and not make the name of their God common; for the fire offerings of the Lord and the bread of their God are offered by them, and they are to be holy.

  • 6 And you will be a kingdom of priests to me, and a holy nation. These are the words which you are to say to the children of Israel.

  • 10 And the Lord said to Moses, Go to the people and make them holy today and tomorrow, and let their clothing be washed.

  • Num 15:40-41
    2 verses
    74%

    40 And that you may keep in mind all my orders and do them and be holy to your God.

    41 I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt, so that I might be your God: I am the Lord your God.

  • Lev 18:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

    4 But you are to be guided by my decisions and keep my rules, and be guided by them: I am the Lord your God.

    5 So keep my rules and my decisions, which, if a man does them, will be life to him: I am the Lord.

  • 13 Say to the children of Israel that they are to keep my Sabbaths; for the Sabbath day is a sign between me and you through all your generations; so that you may see that I am the Lord who makes you holy.

  • 2 For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has taken you to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.

  • 13 But let the Lord of armies be holy to you, and go in fear of him, giving honour to him.

  • 23 And do not keep the rules of the nations which I am driving out before you; for they did all these things, and for that reason my soul was turned against them.

  • 12 And I will be present among you and will be your God and you will be my people.

  • 34 Do not make unclean the land where you are living and in which is my House: for I the Lord am present among the children of Israel.

  • 22 And you will be my people, and I will be your God.

  • 6 For you are a holy people to the Lord your God: marked out by the Lord your God to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.