So you shall remember and do all my commandments, and you shall be holy to your God.
to those who keep his covenant and remember to do his commandments.
“Speak to all the congregation of the Israelites and say to them: You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.
“Thus you shall keep my commandments and observe them: I am the Lord.
I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I am the Lord your God.”
I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, on the basis of God’s mercy, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your reasonable act of worship.
just as he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before him in love.
To the saints and faithful brothers and sisters in Christ in Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father.
For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.