1 Peter 1:16
“Because it is written, Be ye holy, for I am holy.”
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1 Peter 1:16 Context
14As obedient children, not fashioning your selues according to the former lusts, in your ignorance: 15But as hee which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all maner of conuersation; 16Because it is written, Be ye holy, for I am holy. 17And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons iudgeth according to euery mans worke, passe the time of your soiourning here in feare: 18For as much as ye know that yee were not redeemed with corruptible things, as siluer and golde, from your vaine conuersation receiued by tradition from your fathers;
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Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
- King James Version
because it is written, "YOU SHALL BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY."
- New American Standard Version (1995)