Leviticus 11:44

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for I am the LORD your God and you are to sanctify yourselves and be holy because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any of the swarming things that creep on the ground,

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  • Lev 19:2 : 2 “Speak to the whole congregation of the Israelites and tell them,‘You must be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.
  • Lev 20:7 : 7 Exhortation to Holiness and Obedience“‘You must sanctify yourselves and be holy, because I am the LORD your God.
  • 1 Thess 4:7 : 7 For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.
  • Lev 20:26 : 26 You must be holy to me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the other peoples to be mine.
  • Matt 5:48 : 48 So then, be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
  • Rev 22:11 : 11 The evildoer must continue to do evil, and the one who is morally filthy must continue to be filthy. The one who is righteous must continue to act righteously, and the one who is holy must continue to be holy.”
  • Exod 19:6 : 6 and you will be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you will speak to the Israelites.”
  • Lev 21:8 : 8 You must sanctify him because he presents the food of your God. He must be holy to you because I, the LORD who sanctifies you all, am holy.
  • Deut 14:2 : 2 For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.
  • 1 Sam 6:20 : 20 The residents of Beth Shemesh asked,“Who is able to stand before the LORD, this holy God? To whom will the ark go up from here?”
  • Ps 99:5 : 5 Praise the LORD our God! Worship before his footstool! He is holy!
  • Ps 99:9 : 9 Praise the LORD our God! Worship on his holy hill, for the LORD our God is holy!
  • Isa 6:3-5 : 3 They called out to one another,“Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of Heaven’s Armies! His majestic splendor fills the entire earth!” 4 The sound of their voices shook the door frames, and the temple was filled with smoke. 5 I said,“Woe to me! I am destroyed, for my lips are contaminated by sin, and I live among people whose lips are contaminated by sin. My eyes have seen the king, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.”
  • Isa 43:3 : 3 For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your deliverer. I have handed over Egypt as a ransom price, Ethiopia and Seba in place of you.
  • Exod 20:2 : 2 “I, the LORD, am your God, who brought you from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.
  • 1 Pet 1:15-16 : 15 but, like the Holy One who called you, become holy yourselves in all of your conduct, 16 for it is written,“You shall be holy, because I am holy.”
  • Exod 6:7 : 7 I will take you to myself for a people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from your enslavement to the Egyptians.
  • Exod 23:25 : 25 You must serve the LORD your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will remove sickness from your midst.
  • Lev 10:3 : 3 Moses then said to Aaron,“This is what the LORD spoke:‘Among the ones close to me I will show myself holy, and in the presence of all the people I will be honored.’” So Aaron kept silent.
  • Isa 51:15 : 15 I am the LORD your God, who churns up the sea so that its waves surge. The LORD of Heaven’s Armies is his name!
  • Amos 3:3 : 3 Do two walk together without having met?
  • Lev 11:43 : 43 Do not make yourselves detestable by any of the swarming things. You must not defile yourselves by them and become unclean by them,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 11:41-43
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    41Every swarming thing that swarms on the land is detestable; it must not be eaten.

    42You must not eat anything that crawls on its belly or anything that walks on all fours or on any number of legs of all the swarming things that swarm on the land, because they are detestable.

    43Do not make yourselves detestable by any of the swarming things. You must not defile yourselves by them and become unclean by them,

  • Lev 11:45-47
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    45for I am the LORD who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God, and you are to be holy because I am holy.

    46This is the law of the land animals, the birds, all the living creatures that move in the water, and all the creatures that swarm on the land,

    47to distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between the living creatures that may be eaten and the living creatures that must not be eaten.’”

  • Lev 20:7-8
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    7Exhortation to Holiness and Obedience“‘You must sanctify yourselves and be holy, because I am the LORD your God.

    8You must be sure to obey my statutes. I am the LORD who sanctifies you.

  • Lev 20:25-26
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    25Therefore you must distinguish between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean, and you must not make yourselves detestable by means of an animal or bird or anything that creeps on the ground– creatures I have distinguished for you as unclean.

    26You must be holy to me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the other peoples to be mine.

  • Lev 19:2
    81%

    2“Speak to the whole congregation of the Israelites and tell them,‘You must be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.

  • 1 Pet 1:15-16
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    15but, like the Holy One who called you, become holy yourselves in all of your conduct,

    16for it is written,“You shall be holy, because I am holy.”

  • Lev 18:30
    77%

    30You must obey my charge not to practice any of the abominable statutes that have been done before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God.’”

  • Lev 22:31-33
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    76%

    31“You must be sure to do my commandments. I am the LORD.

    32You must not profane my holy name, and I will be sanctified in the midst of the Israelites. I am the LORD who sanctifies you,

    33the one who brought you out from the land of Egypt to be your God. I am the LORD.

  • Lev 18:24
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    24Warning against the Abominations of the Nations“‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you have been defiled with all these things.

  • Lev 21:8
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    8You must sanctify him because he presents the food of your God. He must be holy to you because I, the LORD who sanctifies you all, am holy.

  • Num 35:34
    75%

    34Therefore do not defile the land that you will inhabit, in which I live, for I the LORD live among the Israelites.”

  • Lev 11:31
    75%

    31These are the ones that are unclean to you among all the swarming things. Anyone who touches them when they die will be unclean until evening.

  • Lev 22:5-6
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    5or a man who touches a swarming thing by which he becomes unclean, or touches a person by which he becomes unclean, whatever that person’s impurity–

    6the person who touches any of these will be unclean until evening and must not eat from the holy offerings unless he has bathed his body in water.

  • Lev 11:23-24
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    23But any other winged swarming thing that has four legs is detestable to you.

    24Carcass Uncleanness“‘By these you defile yourselves; anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,

  • Lev 19:30
    74%

    30Purity, Honor, Respect, and Honesty“‘You must keep my Sabbaths and fear my sanctuary. I am the LORD.

  • Lev 26:2
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    2You must keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary. I am the LORD.

  • Exod 22:31
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    31“You will be holy people to me; you must not eat any meat torn by animals in the field. You must throw it to the dogs.

  • Exod 30:29
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    29So you are to sanctify them, and they will be most holy; anything that touches them will be holy.

  • Ezek 20:7
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    7I said to them,“Each of you must get rid of the detestable idols you keep before you, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.”

  • 2 Cor 6:17
    72%

    17Therefore“come out from their midst, and be separate,” says the Lord,“and touch no unclean thing, and I will welcome you,

  • Lev 18:27-28
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    72%

    27for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become unclean.

    28So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it just as it has vomited out the nations that were before you.

  • Lev 22:2-3
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    2“Tell Aaron and his sons that they must deal respectfully with the holy offerings of the Israelites, which they consecrate to me, so that they do not profane my holy name. I am the LORD.

    3Say to them,‘Throughout your generations, if any man from all your descendants approaches the holy offerings which the Israelites consecrate to the LORD while he is impure, that person must be cut off from before me. I am the LORD.

  • Lev 10:10
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    10as well as to distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean,

  • Lev 22:8-9
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    8He must not eat an animal that has died of natural causes or an animal torn by beasts and thus become unclean by it. I am the LORD.

    9They must keep my charge so that they do not incur sin on account of it and therefore die because they profane it. I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

  • Lev 11:26-28
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    71%

    26Inedible Land Quadrupeds“‘All animals that divide the hoof but it is not completely split in two and do not chew the cud are unclean to you; anyone who touches them becomes unclean.

    27All that walk on their paws among all the creatures that walk on all fours are unclean to you. Anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,

    28and the one who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you.

  • Deut 14:3
    71%

    3You must not eat any forbidden thing.

  • Deut 23:14
    71%

    14For the LORD your God walks about in the middle of your camp to deliver you and defeat your enemies for you. Therefore your camp should be holy, so that he does not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you.

  • Lev 15:31
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    31Summary of Purification Regulations for Bodily Discharges“‘Thus you are to set the Israelites apart from their impurity so that they do not die in their impurity by defiling my tabernacle which is in their midst.

  • Lev 20:23
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    23You must not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am about to drive out before you, because they have done all these things and I am filled with disgust against them.

  • Lev 18:2-3
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    2“Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘I am the LORD your God!

    3You must not do as they do in the land of Egypt where you have been living, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan into which I am about to bring you; you must not walk in their statutes.

  • Deut 14:19
    71%

    19And any swarming winged thing is impure to you– they may not be eaten.

  • Exod 19:6
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    6and you will be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you will speak to the Israelites.”

  • Lev 11:21
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    21However, this you may eat from all the winged swarming things that walk on all fours, which have jointed legs to hop with on the land.