44For 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.
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I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; …
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.
Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God.
For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 43-47)Here is, I. The exposition of this law, or a key to let us into the meaning of it. It was not intended merely for a bill of fare, or as the directions of a physician about their diet, but God would hereby teach them to sanctify themselves and to be holy, Lev. 11:44. That is, 1. They must hereby learn to put a difference between good and evil, and to reckon that it could not be all alike what they…
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