Leviticus 20:7

Sanctify yourselves, and be ye holy because I am the Lord your God.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God.

In Context

6The soul that shall go aside after magicians, and soothsayers, and shall commit fornication with them, I will set my face against that soul, and destroy it out of the midst of its people.

8Keep my precepts, and do them. I am the Lord that sanctify you.

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Cross References

Leviticus 11:45For I am the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that I might be your God.

Leviticus 21:8And offer the leaves of proposition. Let them therefore be holy, because I also am holy, the Lord, who sanctify them.

Leviticus 21:23Yet so that he enter not within the veil, nor approach to the altar, because he hath a blemish, and he must not defile my sanctuary. I am the Lord who sanctify them.

Ephesians 1:4As he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and unspotted in his sight in charity.

Colossians 3:12Put ye on therefore, as the elect of God, holy, and beloved, the bowels of mercy, benignity, humility, modesty, patience:

1 Thessalonians 4:7For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto sanctification.

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 →

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