1 Peter 1:16

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 11:44 : 44 For I [am] the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I [am] holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
  • Lev 19:2 : 2 Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God [am] holy.
  • Lev 20:7 : 7 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I [am] the LORD your God.

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  • 90%

    14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

    15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;

  • 2 Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God [am] holy.

  • Lev 20:7-8
    2 verses
    81%

    7 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I [am] the LORD your God.

    8 And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I [am] the LORD which sanctify you.

  • Lev 11:44-45
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    44 For I [am] the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I [am] holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

    45 For I [am] the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I [am] holy.

  • 26 And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD [am] holy, and have severed you from [other] people, that ye should be mine.

  • 7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

  • 76%

    16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in [them]; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

    17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean [thing]; and I will receive you,

    18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

  • 17 And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning [here] in fear:

  • 8 Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which sanctify you, [am] holy.

  • 1 ¶ Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

  • 14 Follow peace with all [men], and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

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    16 ¶ Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

    17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which [temple] ye are.

  • Lev 22:31-32
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    31 Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I [am] the LORD.

    32 Neither shall ye profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I [am] the LORD which hallow you,

  • 16 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.

  • 11 For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified [are] all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

  • 29 And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.

  • 11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

  • 22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, [see that ye] love one another with a pure heart fervently:

  • 15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and [be] ready always to [give] an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

  • 6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These [are] the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.

  • 5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

  • 11 ¶ [Seeing] then [that] all these things shall be dissolved, what manner [of persons] ought ye to be in [all] holy conversation and godliness,

  • 3 For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

  • 10 And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;

  • 40 That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.

  • 23 ¶ And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and [I pray God] your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • 30 ¶ Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I [am] the LORD.

  • 3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

  • 20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,

  • 19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

  • 2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.

  • 9 But ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

  • 14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

  • 2 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I [am] the LORD.

  • 1 ¶ Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;

  • 8 All the days of his separation he [is] holy unto the LORD.

  • 15 [Whereof] the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,

  • 19 And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken.

  • 2 For thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that [are] upon the earth.

  • 48 ‹Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.›

  • 12 Wherefore the law [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

  • 16 ¶ Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

  • 7 ¶ Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,