⁴⁴ I am the Lord your God;^(A) consecrate yourselves^(B) and be holy,^(C) because I am holy.^(D) Do not make yourselves unclean by any creature that moves along the ground.^(E)

²⁶ You are to be holy to me^(A) because I, the Lord, am holy,^(B) and I have set you apart from the nations^(C) to be my own.

⁷ For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.^(A)

³ All who have this hope in him purify themselves,^(A) just as he is pure.^(B)