Leviticus 20:8
And keep my rules and do them: I am the Lord, who make you holy.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD which sanctify you.
In Context
7So make and keep yourselves holy, for I am the Lord your God.
Cross References
Leviticus 18:4But you are to be guided by my decisions and keep my rules, and be guided by them: I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 19:37You are to keep all my rules and my decisions and do them: I am the Lord.
Leviticus 21:8And he is to be holy in your eyes, for by him the bread of your God is offered; he is to be holy in your eyes, for I the Lord, who make you holy, am holy.
Ezekiel 20:12And further, I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, so that it might be clear that I, who make them holy, am the Lord.
Matthew 5:19Whoever then goes against the smallest of these laws, teaching men to do the same, will be named least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who keeps the laws, teaching others to keep them, will be named great in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 12:50For whoever does the pleasure of my Father in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 20:2-10
Moral Laws. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones. 3 And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.… Read the whole commentary →