Leviticus 21:15

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He must not profane his children among his people, for I am the LORD who sanctifies him.’”

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  • Gen 18:19 : 19 I have chosen him so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just. Then the LORD will give to Abraham what he promised him.”
  • 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.
  • Ezra 2:62 : 62 They searched for their records in the genealogical materials, but did not find them. They were therefore excluded from the priesthood.
  • Ezra 9:2 : 2 Indeed, they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has become intermingled with the local residents. Worse still, the leaders and the officials have been at the forefront of all of this unfaithfulness!”
  • Neh 13:23-29 : 23 Also in those days I saw the men of Judah who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. 24 Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod(or the language of one of the other peoples mentioned) and were unable to speak the language of Judah. 25 So I entered a complaint with them. I called down a curse on them, and I struck some of the men and pulled out their hair. I had them swear by God saying,“You will not marry off your daughters to their sons, and you will not take any of their daughters as wives for your sons or for yourselves! 26 Was it not because of things like these that King Solomon of Israel sinned? Among the many nations there was no king like him. He was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. But the foreign wives made even him sin! 27 Should we then in your case hear that you do all this great evil, thereby being unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign wives?” 28 Now one of the sons of Joiada son of Eliashib the high priest was a son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite. So I banished him from my sight. 29 Please remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, the covenant of the priesthood, and the Levites.
  • Mal 2:11 : 11 Judah has become disloyal, and unspeakable sins have been committed in Israel and Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the holy things that the LORD loves and has turned to a foreign god!
  • Mal 2:15 : 15 No one who has even a small portion of the Spirit in him does this. What did our ancestor do when seeking a child from God? Be attentive, then, to your own spirit, for one should not be disloyal to the wife he took in his youth.
  • Rom 11:16 : 16 If the first portion of the dough offered is holy, then the whole batch is holy, and if the root is holy, so too are the branches.
  • 1 Cor 7:14 : 14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified because of the wife, and the unbelieving wife because of her husband. Otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 21:11-14
    4 verses
    85%

    11He must not go where there is any dead person; he must not defile himself even for his father and his mother.

    12He must not go out from the sanctuary and must not profane the sanctuary of his God, because the dedication of the anointing oil of his God is on him. I am the LORD.

    13He must take a wife who is a virgin.

    14He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one profaned by prostitution; he may only take a virgin from his people as a wife.

  • Lev 21:1-9
    9 verses
    85%

    1Rules for the Priests The LORD said to Moses:“Say to the priests, the sons of Aaron– say to them,‘For a dead person no priest is to defile himself among his people,

    2except for his close relative who is near to him: his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother,

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

    4He must not defile himself as a husband among his people so as to profane himself.

    5Priests must not have a bald spot shaved on their head, they must not shave the corner of their beard, and they must not cut slashes in their body.

    6“‘They must be holy to their God, and they must not profane the name of their God, because they are the ones who present the LORD’s gifts, the food of their God. Therefore they must be holy.

    7They must not take a wife defiled by prostitution, nor are they to take a wife divorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.

    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.

    9If a daughter of a priest profanes herself by engaging in prostitution, she is profaning her father. She must be burned to death.

  • Lev 21:16
    83%

    16Rules for the Priesthood The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Ezek 44:22
    78%

    22They must not marry a widow or a divorcee, but they may marry a virgin from the house of Israel or a widow who is a priest’s widow.

  • Lev 21:21-23
    3 verses
    77%

    21No man from the descendants of Aaron the priest who has a physical flaw may step forward to present the LORD’s gifts; he has a physical flaw, so he must not step forward to present the food of his God.

    22He may eat both the most holy and the holy food of his God,

    23but he must not go near the special curtain or step forward to the altar because he has a physical flaw. Thus he must not profane my holy places, for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.’”

  • Lev 22:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    15They must not profane the holy offerings which the Israelites contribute to the LORD,

    16and so cause them to incur a penalty for guilt when they eat their holy offerings, for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.’”

  • Lev 22:32
    76%

    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,

  • Lev 22:1-4
    4 verses
    75%

    1Regulations for the Eating of Priestly Stipends The LORD spoke to Moses:

    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.

    4No man from the descendants of Aaron who is diseased or has a discharge may eat the holy offerings until he becomes clean. The one who touches anything made unclean by contact with a dead person, or a man who has a seminal emission,

  • Lev 18:19-21
    3 verses
    74%

    19“‘You must not approach a woman in her menstrual impurity to have sexual relations with her.

    20You must not have sexual relations with the wife of your fellow citizen to become unclean with her.

    21You must not give any of your children as an offering to Molech, so that you do not 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 must not contact a dead body.

    7He must not defile himself even for his father or his mother or his brother or his sister if they die, because the separation for his God is on his head.

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

  • Lev 22:9
    74%

    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 20:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    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 19:29-30
    2 verses
    72%

    29Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, so that the land does not practice prostitution and become full of lewdness.

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

  • Deut 22:30
    72%

    30(23:1) A man may not marry his father’s former wife and in this way dishonor his father.

  • Ezek 18:6
    72%

    6does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains or pray to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife, does not approach a woman for marital relations during her period,

  • Lev 20:26
    71%

    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 15:31
    71%

    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 20:21
    71%

    21If a man has marital relations with his brother’s wife, it is indecency. He has exposed his brother’s nakedness; they will be childless.

  • Ezek 18:15
    71%

    15He does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains, does not pray to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife,

  • Lev 18:24
    71%

    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.

  • Num 19:20
    70%

    20But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person must be cut off from among the community, because he has polluted the sanctuary of the LORD; the water of purification was not sprinkled on him, so he is unclean.

  • Lev 15:16
    70%

    16“‘When a man has a seminal emission, he must bathe his whole body in water and be unclean until evening,

  • Lev 20:3
    70%

    3I myself will set my face against that man and cut him off from the midst of his people, because he has given some of his children to Molech and thereby defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name.

  • Ezek 44:25
    70%

    25“‘They must not come near a dead person or they will be defiled; however, for father, mother, son, daughter, brother or unmarried sister, they may defile themselves.

  • Deut 7:3
    70%

    3You must not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

  • Lev 18:30
    70%

    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.’”

  • Exod 19:22
    70%

    22Let the priests also, who approach the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break through against them.”