1 Peter 1:16

New American Bible - revised edition

for it is written, “Be holy because I [am] holy.” Reverence.

Cross References

Leviticus 11:44

For I, the Lord, am your God. You shall make and keep yourselves holy, because I am holy. You shall not make yourselves unclean, then, by any swarming creature that crawls on the ground.

Leviticus 19:2

Speak to the whole Israelite community and tell them: Be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.

Leviticus 20:7

Sanctify yourselves, then, and be holy; for I, the Lord, your God, am holy.

Amos 3:3

Do two journey together unless they have agreed?

Leviticus 11:45

Since I, the Lord, am the one who brought you up from the land of Egypt that I might be your God, you shall be holy, because I am holy.

Isaiah 35:8

A highway will be there, called the holy way; No one unclean may pass over it, but it will be for his people; no traveler, not even fools, shall go astray on it.