⁴⁴ For I am the Lord your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and ^(A)be holy, for I am holy. ^(B)You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground.

^2 (A)“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

² “Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, ^(A)You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.

¹⁵ but ^(A)as he who called you is holy, you also be holy ^(B)in all your conduct, ¹⁶ since it is written, ^(C)“You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

^7 (A)Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God.

⁷ For ^(A)God has not called us for ^(B)impurity, but in holiness.

^26 (A)You shall be holy to me, ^(B)for I the Lord am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.

⁹ But you are ^(A)a chosen race, ^(B)a royal ^(C)priesthood, ^(D)a holy nation, ^(E)a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you ^(F)out of darkness into ^(G)his marvelous light.

⁸ You shall sanctify him, for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you, for ^(A)I, the Lord, who sanctify you, ^(B)am holy.

² For ^(A)you are a people holy to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.