For I am Jehovah your God. You shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and you shall be holy; for I am holy. Neither shall you defile yourselves with any swarming thing that swarms on the earth.

Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them: You shall be holy, for I Jehovah your God am holy.

just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before Him in love,

Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering;

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual perversion;

For God did not call us to impurity, but in sanctification.

Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord;

but as He who called you is holy, you also become holy in all conduct,

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