Leviticus 21:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

Neither shall he profane his descendants among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him.

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  • Gen 18:19 : 19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he has spoken of him.
  • Lev 21:8 : 8 You shall sanctify him therefore; for he offers the bread of your God: he shall be holy to you: for I the LORD, who sanctify you, am holy.
  • Ezra 2:62 : 62 These sought their record among those who were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found; therefore, as polluted, they were put from the priesthood.
  • Ezra 9:2 : 2 For they have taken some of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed has mingled with the peoples of those lands. Indeed, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.
  • Neh 13:23-29 : 23 In those days I also saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab; 24 and their children spoke half in the language of Ashdod, and could not speak the language of Judah, but spoke according to the language of each people. 25 So I contended with them and cursed them, struck some of them and pulled out their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, You shall not give your daughters as wives to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons or yourselves. 26 Did not King Solomon of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel; nevertheless, pagan women caused even him to sin. 27 Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, transgressing against our God by marrying pagan women? 28 And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was a son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite; therefore, I drove him from me. 29 Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.
  • Mal 2:11 : 11 Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.
  • Mal 2:15 : 15 And did he not make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And why one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
  • Rom 11:16 : 16 For if the first fruit is holy, the batch is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
  • 1 Cor 7:14 : 14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 21:11-14
    4 verses
    85%

    11 Neither shall he go near any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

    12 Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the LORD.

    13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

    14 A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or a harlot, these he shall not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people as a wife.

  • Lev 21:1-9
    9 verses
    85%

    1 And the LORD said to Moses, Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, None shall defile himself for the dead among his people:

    2 But for his relative who is near to him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,

    3 And for his sister, a virgin who is near to him, who has had no husband; for her he may defile himself.

    4 But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.

    5 They shall not make baldness upon their heads, nor shave off the corner of their beards, nor make any cuts in their flesh.

    6 They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God: for they offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God: therefore they shall be holy.

    7 They shall not take a wife who is a whore, or profane; nor shall they take a woman divorced from her husband: for he is holy to his God.

    8 You shall sanctify him therefore; for he offers the bread of your God: he shall be holy to you: for I the LORD, who sanctify you, am holy.

    9 And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the whore, she profanes her father: she shall be burned with fire.

  • 16 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • 22 Neither shall they marry widows, nor her who is divorced; but they shall take virgins of the descendants of the house of Israel, or a widow who had a priest before.

  • Lev 21:21-23
    3 verses
    77%

    21 No man who has a blemish of the descendants of Aaron the priest shall come near to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he has a blemish; he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.

    22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.

    23 Only he shall not go beyond the veil, nor come near the altar, because he has a blemish; that he does not profane my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

  • Lev 22:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    15 And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer unto the LORD;

    16 Or cause them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

  • 32 Neither shall you profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the LORD who sanctifies you,

  • Lev 22:1-4
    4 verses
    75%

    1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

    2 Speak unto Aaron and his sons, that they set themselves apart from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they do not profane my holy name in those things which they consecrate unto me: I am the LORD.

    3 Say unto them, Whoever he be of all your descendants throughout your generations, that approaches the holy things, which the children of Israel dedicate unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD.

    4 Whoever of the descendants of Aaron is a leper, or has a discharge; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he is clean. And whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man who has an emission of seed;

  • Lev 18:19-21
    3 verses
    74%

    19 Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.

    20 Moreover, you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, to defile yourself with her.

    21 And you shall not let any of your seed pass through the fire to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.

  • Num 6:6-8
    3 verses
    74%

    6 All the days that he separates himself to the LORD he shall not go near a dead body.

    7 He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or his mother, for his brother, or his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head.

    8 All the days of his separation he is holy to the LORD.

  • 9 They shall therefore keep my ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die thereby, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them.

  • Lev 20:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

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

    8 And you shall keep my statutes and do them: I am the LORD who sanctifies you.

  • Lev 19:29-30
    2 verses
    72%

    29 Do not prostitute your daughter, to cause her to become a whore; lest the land become full of whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.

    30 You shall keep my sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

  • 30 A man shall not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's bed.

  • 6 And has not eaten upon the mountains, nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, nor defiled his neighbor's wife, nor come near to a menstruous woman,

  • 26 And you shall be holy to me: for I the LORD am holy, and have separated you from other people, that you should be mine.

  • 31 Thus shall you separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they do not die in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.

  • 21 And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

  • 15 Who has not eaten upon the mountains, nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, has not defiled his neighbor's wife,

  • 24 Do not defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled, which I cast out before you.

  • 20 But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of purification has not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.

  • 16 And if any man's seed of emission goes out from him, then he shall wash all his body in water, and be unclean until the evening.

  • 3 And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he has given of his offspring to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.

  • 25 And they shall not go near a dead person to defile themselves; but for a father, or for a mother, or for a son, or for a daughter, for a brother, or for a sister who has had no husband, they may defile themselves.

  • 3 Neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor his daughter shall you take for your son.

  • 30 Therefore you shall keep my ordinance, that you do not commit any of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that you do not defile yourselves by them: I am the LORD your God.

  • 22 And let the priests also, who come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break out against them.