Leviticus 20:26
You shall be holy unto me, because I the Lord am holy, and I have separated you from other people, that you should be mine.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Leviticus 19:2Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: Be ye holy, because I the Lord your God am holy.
Leviticus 20:8Keep my precepts, and do them. I am the Lord that sanctify you.
Deuteronomy 7:6Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God. The Lord thy God hath chosen thee, to be his peculiar people of all peoples that are upon the earth.
Deuteronomy 26:18And the Lord hath chosen thee this day, to be his peculiar people, as he hath spoken to thee, and to keep all his commandments:
Psalms 99:5Exalt ye the Lord our God, and adore his footstool, for it is holy.
Isaiah 6:3And they cried one to another, and said: Holy, holy, holy, the Lord God of hosts, all the earth is full of his glory.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 20:23-27
22 Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out. 23 And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. 24 But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God, which have separated you from other people. 25 Ye… Read the whole commentary →