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For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.

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44 For I am the Lord your God; sanctify yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming creature that moves on the earth.(A)

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just as he chose us in Christ[a] before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before him in love.(A)

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  1. 1.4 Gk in him

10 —especially those who indulge their flesh in depraved lust and who despise authority.

Bold and willful, they are not afraid to slander the glorious ones,[a](A)

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  1. 2.10 Or angels; Gk glories

21 For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you should follow in his steps.(A)

22 “He committed no sin,
    and no deceit was found in his mouth.”

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But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people,[a] in order that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.(A)

10 Once you were not a people,
    but now you are God’s people;
once you had not received mercy,
    but now you have received mercy.(B)

Live as Servants of God

11 Beloved, I urge you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul.[b](C) 12 Conduct yourselves honorably among the gentiles, so that, though they malign you as evildoers, they may see your honorable deeds and glorify God when he comes to judge.[c](D)

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  1. 2.9 Gk a people for his possession
  2. 2.11 Or one’s life
  3. 2.12 Gk God on the day of visitation

14 Like obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires that you formerly had in ignorance. 15 Instead, as he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in all your conduct,(A) 16 for it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”(B)

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who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace, and this grace was given to us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,[a](A)

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  1. 1.9 Gk lacks began

29 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn within a large family.[a](A) 30 And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.(B)

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  1. 8.29 Gk among many brothers

For our appeal does not spring from deceit or impure motives or trickery,

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19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery,(A)

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19 They have lost all sensitivity and have abandoned themselves to licentiousness, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.

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To all God’s beloved in Rome, who are called to be saints:

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.(A)

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“Speak to all the congregation of the Israelites and say to them: You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.(A)

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Chosen for Salvation

13 But we must always give thanks to God for you, brothers and sisters beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the first fruits[a] for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through belief in the truth.(A) 14 For this purpose he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.(B)

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  1. 2.13 Other ancient authorities read from the beginning

Unity in the Body of Christ

I, therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,(A)

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Warnings against Rejecting God’s Grace

14 Pursue peace with everyone and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

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10 For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we may walk in them.(A)

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To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, together with all those who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord[a] and ours:(A)

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  1. 1.2 Gk theirs