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