⁷ So make and keep yourselves holy, for I am the Lord your God.

⁴ Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:

⁴⁴ For I am the Lord your God: for this reason, make and keep yourselves holy, for I am holy; you are not to make yourselves unclean with any sort of thing which goes about flat on the earth.

² Say to all the people of Israel, You are to be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.

¹² So then, my loved ones, as you have at all times done what I say, not only when I am present, but now much more when I am not with you, give yourselves to working out your salvation with fear in your hearts;

¹³ For it is God who is the cause of your desires and of your acts, for his good pleasure.

¹² As saints of God, then, holy and dearly loved, let your behaviour be marked by pity and mercy, kind feeling, a low opinion of yourselves, gentle ways, and a power of undergoing all things;

³ For the purpose of God for you is this: that you may be holy, and may keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh;

⁷ Because it is God's purpose that our way of life may be not unclean but holy.

¹⁴ Let your desire be for peace with all men, and to be made holy, without which no man may see the Lord;

¹⁵ But be holy in every detail of your lives, as he, whose servants you are, is holy;

¹⁶ Because it has been said in the Writings, You are to be holy, for I am holy.