2Speak 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.
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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. …
Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God.
But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; …
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? …
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)Moses is ordered to deliver the summary of the laws to all the congregation of the children of Israel (Lev. 19:2); not to Aaron and his sons only, but to all the people, for they were all concerned to know their duty. Even in the darker ages of the law, that religion could not be of God which boasted of ignorance as its mother. Moses must make known God’s statutes to all the congregation, and proc…
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