1 Peter 1:16

Geneva Bible (1560)

Because it is written, Be yee holie, for I am holie.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 11:44 : 44 For I am the Lord your God: be sanctified therefore, and be holy, for I am holy, and defile not your selues with any creeping thing, that creepeth vpon the earth.
  • Lev 19:2 : 2 Speake vnto all the Congregation of the children of Israel, and say vnto them, Ye shalbe holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.
  • Lev 20:7 : 7 Sanctifie your selues therefore, and be holie, for I am the Lorde your God.

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  • 1 Pet 1:14-15
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    14As obedient children, not fashioning your selues vnto the former lustes of your ignorance:

    15But as hee which hath called you, is holie, so be yee holie in all maner of conuersation;

  • Lev 19:2
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    2Speake vnto all the Congregation of the children of Israel, and say vnto them, Ye shalbe holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.

  • Lev 20:7-8
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    7Sanctifie your selues therefore, and be holie, for I am the Lorde your God.

    8Keepe ye therefore mine ordinances, and doe them. I am the Lorde which doeth sanctifie you.

  • Lev 11:44-45
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    44For I am the Lord your God: be sanctified therefore, and be holy, for I am holy, and defile not your selues with any creeping thing, that creepeth vpon the earth.

    45For I am the Lorde that brought you out of the lande of Egypt, to be your God, and that you should be holy, for I am holy.

  • Lev 20:26
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    26Therefore shall ye be holie vnto me: for I the Lorde am holy, and I haue separated you from other people, that ye shoulde be mine.

  • 1 Thess 4:7
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    7For God hath not called vs vnto vncleannesse, but vnto holinesse.

  • 2 Cor 6:16-18
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    16And what agreement hath the Temple of God with idols? for ye are the Temple of the liuing God: as God hath said, I will dwell among them, and walke there: and I will be their God, and they shalbe my people.

    17Wherefore come out from among them, and separate your selues, saith the Lord, and touch none vncleane thing, and I wil receiue you.

    18And I will be a Father vnto you, and ye shalbe my sonnes and daughters, saith the Lord almightie.

  • 1 Pet 1:17
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    17And if ye call him Father, which without respect of person iudgeth according to euery mans woorke, passe the time of your dwelling here in feare,

  • Lev 21:8
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    8Thou shalt sanctifie him therefore, for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy vnto thee: for I the Lorde, which sanctifie you, am holy.

  • 2 Cor 7:1
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    1Seing then we haue these promises, dearely beloued, let vs clense our selues from all filthinesse of the flesh and spirit, and finish our sanctification in the feare of God.

  • Heb 12:14
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    14Followe peace with all men, and holinesse, without the which no man shall see ye Lord.

  • 1 Cor 3:16-17
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    16Knowe ye not that ye are the Temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

    17If any man destroy the Temple of God, him shall God destroy: for the Temple of God is holy, which ye are.

  • Lev 22:31-32
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    31Therefore shall ye keepe my commandements and do them: for I am the Lord.

    32Neither shal ye pollute mine holy Name, but I will be halowed among the children of Israel. I the Lord sanctifie you,

  • Isa 5:16
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    16And the Lorde of hostes shalbe exalted in iudgement, and the holy God shalbe sanctified in iustice.

  • Heb 2:11
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    11For he that sanctifieth, and they which are sanctified, are all of one: wherefore he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

  • Exod 30:29
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    29So thou shalt sanctifie them, & they shalbe most holy: all that shal touch them, shalbe holy.

  • 1 Cor 6:11
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    11And such were some of you: but yee are washed, but yee are sanctified, but yee are iustified in the Name of the Lorde Iesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

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    22Hauing purified your soules in obeying the trueth through the spirite, to loue brotherly without faining, loue one another with a pure heart feruently,

  • 1 Pet 3:15
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    15But sanctifie the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready alwayes to giue an answere to euery man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekenesse and reuerence,

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    6Yee shall be vnto mee also a kingdome of Priestes, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speake vnto the children of Israel.

  • 1 Tim 4:5
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    5For it is sanctified by the worde of God, and prayer.

  • 2 Pet 3:11
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    11Seeing therefore that all these thinges must be dissolued, what maner persons ought ye to be in holy conuersation and godlinesse,

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    3For this is the will of God euen your sanctification, and that ye should abstaine from fornication,

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    10That ye may put difference betweene the holy and the vnholy, and betweene the cleane and the vncleane,

  • Num 15:40
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    40That yee may remember and doe all my commandements, and bee holy vnto your God.

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    23Nowe the very God of peace sanctifie you throughout: and I pray God that your whole spirite and soule and body, may be kept blamelesse vnto the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ.

  • Lev 19:30
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    30Ye shall keepe my Sabbaths and reuerence my Sanctuarie: I am the Lorde.

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    3And euery man that hath this hope in him, purgeth himselfe, euen as he is pure.

  • Jude 1:20
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    20But, yee beloued, edifie your selues in your most holy faith, praying in the holy Ghost,

  • Rom 6:19
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    19I speake after the maner of man, because of the infirmitie of your flesh: for as yee haue giuen your members seruants to vncleannes and to iniquitie, to commit iniquitie, so now giue your mebers seruants vnto righteousnesse in holinesse.

  • 1 Pet 1:2
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    2Elect according to the foreknowledge of God ye Father vnto sanctification of ye Spirit, through obedience and sprinkeling of the blood of Iesus Christ: Grace and peace bee multiplied vnto you.

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    9But yee are a chosen generation, a royall Priesthoode, an holy nation, a people set at libertie, that yee shoulde shewe foorth the vertues of him that hath called you out of darkenesse into his marueilous light,

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    14Wherefore, beloued, seeing that yee looke for such thinges, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot and blamelesse.

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    2Ye shall keepe my Sabbaths, and reuerence my Sanctuarie: I am the Lorde.

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    1Bee yee therefore followers of God, as deare children,

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    8All the dayes of his separation he shalbe holy to the Lord.

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    15For the holy Ghost also beareth vs record: for after that he had sayd before,

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    19And to make thee high aboue al nations (which he hath made) in praise, & in name, and in glory, & that thou shouldest be an holy people vnto the Lord thy God, as he hath said.

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    2For thou art an holy people vnto ye Lorde thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a precious people vnto himselfe, aboue all the people that are vpon the earth.

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