1 Peter 1:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ For it is written, You shall be holy, for I am holy. [Lev. 11:44, 45.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ because it is written, Ye shall be holy; for I am holy.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ It is written, “You will be holy, because I am holy.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ for it is written: "You shall be holy, for I am Holy."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ Because it is written: You shall be holy, for I am holy.

1 Peter 1:16 Cross References

Isaiah 35:8

A highway shall be there, and it shall be called the Holy Way; the unclean shall not travel on it, but it shall be for God’s people; no traveler, not even fools, shall go astray.

Leviticus 11:44

For I am the Lord your God; sanctify yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming creature that moves on the earth.

Leviticus 11:45

For I am the Lord who brought you up from the land of Egypt, to be your God; you shall be holy, for I am holy.

Leviticus 19:2

“Speak to all the congregation of the Israelites and say to them: You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.

Leviticus 20:7

Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God.

Amos 3:3

Do two walk together unless they have made an appointment?