1 Peter 1:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

1 Peter 1:16 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Leviticus 11:44
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.
Leviticus 19:2
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.
Leviticus 20:7
Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God.

Topics

Atheism Attributes of God Commandments Discipleship Disobedience to God Duty God Godliness

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 13-23)

Here the apostle begins his exhortations to those whose glorious state he had before described, thereby instructing us that Christianity is a doctrine according to godliness, designed to make us not only wiser, but better. I. He exhorts them to sobriety and holiness. 1. Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, etc., 1 Pet. 1:13. As if he had said, “ Wherefore, since you are so honoured and distin…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

16. Scripture is the true source of all authority in questions of doctrine and practice. Be ye ... for I am--It is I with whom ye have to do. Ye are mine. Therefore abstain from Gentile pollutions. We are too prone to have respect unto men [Calvin]. As I am the fountain of holiness, being holy in My essence, be ye therefore zealous to be partakers of holiness, that ye may be as I also am [Didymus]…