Leviticus 20:7

World English Bible (2000)

"'Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am Yahweh your God.

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Referenced Verses

  • Eph 1:4 : 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without blemish before him in love;
  • Lev 11:44 : 44 For I am Yahweh your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy: neither shall you defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.
  • Lev 19:2 : 2 "Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, 'You shall be holy; for I Yahweh your God am holy.
  • Phil 2:12-13 : 12 So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. 13 For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
  • Col 3:12 : 12 Put on therefore, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
  • 1 Thess 4:3 : 3 For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
  • 1 Thess 4:7 : 7 For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.
  • Heb 12:14 : 14 Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
  • 1 Pet 1:15-16 : 15 but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior; 16 because it is written, "You shall be holy; for I am holy."

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  • Lev 20:25-26
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    25 "'You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean: and you shall not make yourselves abominable by animal, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have separated from you as unclean for you.

    26 You shall be holy to me: for I, Yahweh, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine.

  • Lev 20:8
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    8 You shall keep my statutes, and do them. I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.

  • Lev 19:1-4
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    1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

    2 "Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, 'You shall be holy; for I Yahweh your God am holy.

    3 "'Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

    4 "'Don't turn to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves. I am Yahweh your God.

  • Lev 11:44-45
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    44 For I am Yahweh your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy: neither shall you defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.

    45 For I am Yahweh who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

  • Lev 21:8
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    8 You shall sanctify him therefore; for he offers the bread of your God: he shall be holy to you: for I Yahweh, who sanctify you, am holy.

  • Lev 19:30-31
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    30 "'You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am Yahweh.

    31 "'Don't turn to those who are mediums, nor to the wizards. Don't seek them out, to be defiled by them. I am Yahweh your God.

  • 1 Pet 1:15-16
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    15 but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;

    16 because it is written, "You shall be holy; for I am holy."

  • Lev 18:29-30
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    29 "'For whoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people.

    30 Therefore you shall keep my requirements, that you do not practice any of these abominable customs, which were practiced before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with them: I am Yahweh your God.'"

  • Ezek 20:7
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    7 I said to them, Cast away every man the abominations of his eyes, and don't defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am Yahweh your God.

  • Lev 22:31-33
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    31 "Therefore you shall keep my commandments, and do them. I am Yahweh.

    32 You shall not profane my holy name, but I will be made holy among the children of Israel. I am Yahweh who makes you holy,

    33 who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. I am Yahweh."

  • Lev 26:2
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    2 "'You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am Yahweh.

  • Ezek 20:19-20
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    19 I am Yahweh your God: walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them;

    20 and make my Sabbaths holy; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.

  • Lev 22:1-3
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    1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

    2 "Tell Aaron and his sons to separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, which they make holy to me, and that they not profane my holy name. I am Yahweh.

    3 "Tell them, 'If anyone of all your seed throughout your generations approaches the holy things, which the children of Israel make holy to Yahweh, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from before me. I am Yahweh.

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    2 "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, 'I am Yahweh your God.

  • Lev 20:6
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    6 "'The person that turns to those who are mediums, and to the wizards, to play the prostitute after them, I will even set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people.

  • Exod 30:29
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    29 You shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy.

  • 2 Cor 6:17
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    17 Therefore, "'Come out from among them, and be separate,' says the Lord. 'Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

  • Lev 22:9
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    9 "'They shall therefore follow my requirements, lest they bear sin for it, and die therein, if they profane it. I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.

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    37 "'You shall observe all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them. I am Yahweh.'"

  • Exod 19:22
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    22 Let the priests also, who come near to Yahweh, sanctify themselves, lest Yahweh break forth on them."

  • Lev 10:10
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    10 and that you are to make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;

  • Josh 7:13
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    13 "Get up! Sanctify the people, and say, 'Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, for Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, "There is a devoted thing in the midst of you, Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted thing from among you."

  • Lev 21:6
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    6 They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God; for they offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.

  • Exod 19:6
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    6 and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.' These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel."

  • Exod 19:10
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    10 Yahweh said to Moses, "Go to the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments,

  • Num 15:40-41
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    40 that you may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God.

    41 I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am Yahweh your God."

  • Lev 18:4-5
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    4 You shall do my ordinances, and you shall keep my statutes, and walk in them: I am Yahweh your God.

    5 You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances; which if a man does, he shall live in them: I am Yahweh.

  • Exod 31:13
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    13 "Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, 'Most certainly you shall keep my Sabbaths: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.

  • Deut 14:2
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    2 For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

  • Isa 8:13
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    13 Yahweh of Armies is who you must respect as holy. He is the one you must fear. He is the one you must dread.

  • Lev 20:23
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    23 You shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I am casting out before you: for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

  • Lev 26:12
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    12 I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.

  • Num 35:34
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    34 You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell: for I, Yahweh, dwell in the midst of the children of Israel.'"

  • Jer 30:22
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    22 You shall be my people, and I will be your God.

  • Deut 7:6
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    6 For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God: Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.