When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, I am your God, be well-pleasing before Me, and be blameless.

For I am the Lord your God; and you shall be sanctified, and you shall be holy, because I the Lord your God am holy; and you shall not defile your souls with any of the reptiles creeping upon the earth.

Speak to the congregation of the children of Israel, and you shall say to them, You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God [am] holy.

And you shall be holy to Me; because I the Lord your God [am] holy, who separated you from all nations, to be Mine.

You shall be perfect before the Lord your God.

There was a certain man in the land of Uz, whose name [was] Job; and that man was true, blameless, righteous, and godly, abstaining from everything evil.

And he had seven sons and three daughters.

And his substance consisted of seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys in the pastures, and a very great household, and he had a great husbandry on the earth; and that man was [most] noble of the men of the east.

Maintain innocence, and behold uprightness; for there is a remnant to the peaceable man.

Therefore be compassionate, just as your Father also is compassionate.

A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone having been fully trained will be like his teacher.

Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

For we rejoice whenever we are weak, but you are strong. And this also we pray, that you may be made complete.

Finally brothers, farewell. Restore [yourselves], comfort [yourselves], be in agreement, be at peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.

Not that I have already obtained, or have already been made perfect; but I press on, if also I may lay hold of that for which I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.

I press toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

whom we proclaim, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

Epaphras greets you, who is one of you, a bondservant of Christ, always struggling for you in his prayers, that you may stand mature and complete in all the will of God.

But let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.

but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all manner of life,

because it is written, "Be holy, for I am holy."

Thus let your light shine before men, so that they may see your good works, and they may glorify your Father who is in heaven.

so that you may prove to be sons of your Father in heaven; because He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and He sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus in behalf of you Gentiles--

Therefore be imitators of God as beloved children.

And walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a fragrant aroma.

And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.