Isaiah 35:8-10

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⁸And a highway^(A) will be there;
    it will be called the Way of Holiness;^(B)
    it will be for those who walk on that Way.
The unclean^(C) will not journey on it;
    wicked fools will not go about on it.
⁹No lion^(D) will be there,
    nor any ravenous beast;^(E)
    they will not be found there.
But only the redeemed^(F) will walk there,
¹⁰    and those the Lord has rescued^(G) will return.
They will enter Zion with singing;^(H)
    everlasting joy^(I) will crown their heads.
Gladness^(J) and joy will overtake them,
    and sorrow and sighing will flee away.^(K)

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Ephesians 4:20-24

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²⁰That, however, is not the way of life you learned ²¹when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. ²²You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off^(A) your old self,^(B) which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;^(C) ²³to be made new in the attitude of your minds;^(D) ²⁴and to put on^(E) the new self,^(F) created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.^(G)

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1 Peter 1:15-16

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¹⁵But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do;^(A) ¹⁶for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”^[a]^(B)

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Footnotes

1 Peter 1:16 Lev. 11:44,45; 19:2

Hebrews 12:1-2

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12 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run^(A) with perseverance^(B) the race marked out for us, ²fixing our eyes on Jesus,^(C) the pioneer^(D) and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross,^(E) scorning its shame,^(F) and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.^(G)