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1 Peter 1:16 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" because it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” "

1 Peter 1:16

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14 as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

15 but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior,

16 because it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

17 If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,

18 knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things like silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

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Leviticus 20:26

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"You shall be holy to me, for I, the LORD, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine."

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Leviticus 11:45

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"For I am the LORD who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy."

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Numbers 15:40

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"so that you may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God."

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"But you are holy, you who inhabit the praises of Israel."

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"(as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”),"

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"For you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth."

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1 Peter 1:1

"Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,"

1 Peter 1:2

"according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied."

1 Peter 1:3

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,"

1 Peter 1:4

"to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,"

1 Peter 1:5

"who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time."

1 Peter 1:6

"In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,"

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