The LORD came from Mount Sinai; he rose like the sun over Edom and shone on his people from Mount Paran. Ten thousand angels were with him, a flaming fire at his right hand.

We obey the Law that Moses gave us, our nation's most treasured possession.

And you will be known as the priests of the LORD, The servants of our God. You will enjoy the wealth of the nations And be proud that it is yours.

So then, my friends, because of God's great mercy to us I appeal to you: Offer yourselves as a living sacrifice to God, dedicated to his service and pleasing to him. This is the true worship that you should offer.

Come as living stones, and let yourselves be used in building the spiritual temple, where you will serve as holy priests to offer spiritual and acceptable sacrifices to God through Jesus Christ.

But you are the chosen race, the King's priests, the holy nation, God's own people, chosen to proclaim the wonderful acts of God, who called you out of darkness into his own marvelous light.

and made us a kingdom of priests to serve his God and Father. To Jesus Christ be the glory and power forever and ever! Amen.

You have made them a kingdom of priests to serve our God, and they shall rule on earth."

Happy and greatly blessed are those who are included in this first raising of the dead. The second death has no power over them; they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and they will rule with him for a thousand years.

I am the LORD your God, and you must keep yourselves holy, because I am holy.

I am the LORD who brought you out of Egypt so that I could be your God. You must be holy, because I am holy.

to say to the community of Israel, "Be holy, because I, the LORD your God, am holy.

But I have promised you this rich and fertile land as your possession, and I will give it to you. I am the LORD your God, and I have set you apart from the other nations.

You shall be holy and belong only to me, because I am the LORD and I am holy. I have set you apart from the other nations so that you would belong to me alone.

A priest shall not marry a woman who has been a prostitute or a woman who is not a virgin or who is divorced; he is holy.

The people must consider the priest holy, because he presents the food offerings to me. I am the LORD; I am holy and I make my people holy.

but because he has a physical defect, he shall not come near the sacred curtain or approach the altar. He must not profane these holy things, because I am the LORD and I make them holy."

Do this because you belong to the LORD your God. From all the peoples on earth he chose you to be his own special people.

He will make you greater than any other nation that he has created, and you will bring praise and honor to his name. You will be his own people, as he promised."

"If you obey the LORD your God and do everything he commands, he will make you his own people, as he has promised.

You will be called "God's Holy People," "The People the LORD Has Saved." Jerusalem will be called "The City That God Loves," "The City That God Did Not Forsake."

God will destroy anyone who destroys God's temple. For God's temple is holy, and you yourselves are his temple.

I urge you by the authority of the Lord to read this letter to all the believers.

Instead, be holy in all that you do, just as God who called you is holy.

The scripture says, "Be holy because I am holy."