⁴⁰ So you shall remember and do all my commandments, and be ^(A)holy to your God.

A Living Sacrifice

12 ^(A)I appeal to you therefore, brothers,^[a] by the mercies of God, ^(B)to present your bodies ^(C)as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.^[b]

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

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. ^45 (C)For I am the Lord who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God. ^(D)You shall therefore be holy, for I 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.”

² To the ^(A)saints and faithful brothers^[a] in Christ at Colossae:

^(B)Grace to you and peace from God our Father.

^4 (A)even as he ^(B)chose us in him ^(C)before the foundation of the world, that we should be ^(D)holy and blameless before him. In love

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.