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7Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God.

Leviticus 20:7

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; …

  • According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

  • Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-9)

Moses is here directed to say that again to the children of Israel which he had in effect said before, Lev. 20:2. We are sure it was no vain repetition, but very necessary, that they might give the more earnest heed to the things that were spoken , and might believe them to be of great consequence, being so often inculcated. God speaketh once, yea, twice , and what he orders to be said again we mu…

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