15 But as the one who called you  * is holy,  * you also are to be holy in all your conduct; 16 for it is written, Be holy, because I am holy.*,*

15 But as the one who called you  * is holy,  * you also are to be holy in all your conduct; 16 for it is written, Be holy, because I am holy.*,*

4 For he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in love before him.  *,*

3 For this is God’s will,  * your sanctification:  * that you keep away  * from sexual immorality, 4 that each of you knows how to control his own body  * in holiness and honor, 5 not with lustful passions,  * like the Gentiles, who don’t know God. 6 This means one must not transgress against and take advantage  * of a brother or sister in this manner, because the Lord is an avenger of all these offenses, as we also previously told and warned you. 7 For God has not called us to impurity  * but to live in holiness.

9 He has saved us and called us with a holy calling,  * not according to our works,  * but according to his own purpose  * and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began.

3 But you are holy,

enthroned on the praises of Israel.  *

2 There is no one holy like the  Lord.  *

There is no one besides you!  *

And there is no rock like our God.  *

15 For the High and Exalted One,

who lives forever, whose name is holy,  * says this:

"I live in a high and holy place,

and with the oppressed and lowly of spirit,  *

to revive the spirit of the lowly

and revive the heart of the oppressed.  *

23 I will display my greatness and holiness, and I will reveal myself in the sight of many nations.  * Then they will know that I am the Lord.’

23 I will honor the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations — the name you have profaned among them. The nations will know that I am the Lord  — this is the declaration of the Lord God  — when I demonstrate my holiness through you in their sight.  *

14 Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness  *  — without it no one will see the Lord.  *

14 Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness  *  — without it no one will see the Lord.  *

1 So then, dear friends, since we have these promises,  * let us cleanse ourselves from every impurity of the flesh and spirit,  * bringing holiness to completion  * in the fear of God.  *

1 So then, dear friends, since we have these promises,  * let us cleanse ourselves from every impurity of the flesh and spirit,  * bringing holiness to completion  * in the fear of God.  *

22 But now, since you have been set free from sin and have become enslaved to God,  * you have your fruit, which results in sanctification  *  — and the outcome is eternal life!  *

19 I am using a human analogy  * because of the weakness of your flesh.  * For just as you offered the parts of yourselves as slaves to impurity, and to greater and greater lawlessness, so now offer them as slaves to righteousness, which results in sanctification.

1 Therefore, brothers and sisters, in view of the mercies of God, I urge you  * to present your bodies as a living sacrifice,  * holy and pleasing to God; this is your true worship.  *

17 Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who create divisions and obstacles contrary to the teaching that you learned.  * Avoid them,  *

3 But sexual immorality  * and any impurity  * or greed  * should not even be heard of  * among you, as is proper for saints.

3 But sexual immorality  * and any impurity  * or greed  * should not even be heard of  * among you, as is proper for saints.

22 to take off  *,* your former way of life,  * the old self  * that is corrupted by deceitful desires, 23 to be renewed  * in the spirit  * of your minds, 24 and to put on  *,* the new self, the one created  * according to God’s likeness  * in righteousness and purity of the truth.

21 Once you were alienated and hostile in your minds as expressed in your evil actions. 22 But now he has reconciled you by his physical body through his death,  * to present you holy, faultless,  * and blameless before him  *  —  23 if indeed you remain grounded and steadfast in the faith  * and are not shifted away from the hope  * of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has been proclaimed in all creation  * under heaven,  * and I, Paul,  * have become a servant of it.

17 Sanctify*them by the truth;*your word is truth.

9 How can a young man keep his way pure?

By keeping your  *  word.  *

23 Search me, God, and know my heart;

test me and know my concerns.  *

24 See if there is any offensive  *  way in me;

lead me in the everlasting way.  *

1 My soul, bless the  Lord,

and all that is within me, bless his holy name.  *

16 Don’t you yourselves know that you are God’s temple  * and that the Spirit of God lives in you?  *

2 To the church of God at Corinth,  * to those sanctified  * in Christ Jesus, called  * as saints, with all those in every place who call on the name  * of Jesus Christ our Lord — both their Lord and ours.

5 Adopt the same attitude as that of Christ Jesus,

1 If, then, there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love,  * if any fellowship with the Spirit,  * if any affection and mercy,  *2 make my joy complete by thinking the same way,  * having the same love,  * united in spirit, intent on one  * purpose. 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition  * or conceit,  * but in humility  * consider others as more important  * than yourselves. 4 Everyone should look not to his own interests,  * but rather to the interests of others.  *

5 Adopt the same attitude as that of Christ Jesus,

6 who, existing in the form of God,

did not consider equality with God  *

as something to be exploited.  *

7 Instead he emptied himself  *

by assuming the form of a servant,  *

taking on the likeness of humanity.  *

And when he had come as a man,

8 he humbled himself by becoming obedient

to the point of death —

even to death on a cross.  *

9 For this reason God highly exalted him  *

and gave him the name

that is above every name,

10 so that at the name of Jesus

every knee will bow  *  —

in heaven  * and on earth

and under the earth  *  —

11 and every tongue  * will confess

that Jesus Christ is Lord,

to the glory  * of God the Father.

12 Therefore, my dear friends,  * just as you have always obeyed,  * so now, not only in my presence but even more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. 13 For it is God who is working in you both to will and to work according to his good purpose. 14 Do everything without grumbling  * and arguing,  *15 so that you may be blameless  * and pure,  * children of God who are faultless  * in a crooked  * and perverted  * generation,  * among whom you shine like stars in the world, 16 by holding firm to the word  * of life. Then I can boast  * in the day of Christ  * that I didn’t run or labor for nothing. 17 But even if I am poured out  * as a drink offering  * on the sacrificial service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you. 18 In the same way you should also be glad and rejoice with me.

19 Now I hope in the Lord Jesus  * to send Timothy  * to you soon so that I too may be encouraged by news about you. 20 For I have no one else like-minded who will genuinely care about your interests; 21 all seek their own interests,  * not those of Jesus Christ.  *22 But you know his proven character, because he has served with me in the gospel ministry like a son with a father. 23 Therefore, I hope to send him as soon as I see how things go with me. 24 I am confident in the Lord that I myself will also come soon.  *

25 But I considered it necessary to send you Epaphroditus  *  — my brother, coworker, and fellow soldier, as well as your messenger and minister to my need  *  —  26 since he has been longing for all of you and was distressed because you heard that he was sick. 27 Indeed, he was so sick that he nearly died. However, God had mercy on him, and not only on him but also on me, so that I would not have sorrow upon sorrow. 28 For this reason, I am very eager to send him so that you may rejoice again when you see him and I may be less anxious. 29 Therefore, welcome him in the Lord with great joy and hold people like him in honor, 30 because he came close to death for the work  * of Christ, risking his life to make up what was lacking in your ministry to me.

48 Be perfect,*therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

16 "No one, after lighting a lamp,*covers it with a basket or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a lampstand so that those who come in may see its light.*

14 Pursue good and not evil

so that you may live,

and the Lord, the God of Armies,

will be with you

as you have claimed.  *

10 "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,  *

and the knowledge of the Holy One  * is understanding.

25 It is a trap for anyone to dedicate something rashly

and later to reconsider his vows.  *

26 You are to be holy to me because I, the Lord, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be mine.  *

26 You are to be holy to me because I, the Lord, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be mine.  *

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

4 Sing to God! Sing praises to his name.

Exalt him who rides on the clouds  *  —

his name is the Lord*  — and celebrate before him.  *

5 God in his holy dwelling is

a father of the fatherless

and a champion of widows.  *