Leviticus 20:8
Keep my precepts, and do them. I am the Lord that sanctify you.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD which sanctify you.
In Context
7Sanctify yourselves, and be ye holy because I am the Lord your God.
Cross References
Leviticus 18:4You shall do my judgments, and shall observe my precepts, and shall walk in them. I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 19:37Keep all my precepts, and all my judgments, and do them. I am the Lord.
Leviticus 21:8And offer the leaves of proposition. Let them therefore be holy, because I also am holy, the Lord, who sanctify them.
Ezekiel 20:12Moreover I gave them also my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them: and that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them.
Matthew 5:19He therefore that shall break one of these least commandments, and shall so teach men, shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. But he that shall do and teach, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 12:50For whosoever shall do the will of my Father, that is 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 →