being holy
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16for it is written: “You shall be holy, for I am Holy.”
44For I am the Lord your God. Be holy, for I am Holy. Do not pollute your souls with any creeping thing, which moves across the land.
15but in accord with him who has called you: the Holy One. And in every behavior, you yourself must be holy,
2Speak to the entire assembly of the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them: Be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.
3And they were crying out to one another, and saying: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God of hosts! All the earth is filled with his glory!”
14Pursue peace with everyone. Pursue sanctity, without which no one shall see God.
45For I am the Lord, who led you away from the land of Egypt, so that I would be your God; you shall be holy, for I am Holy.
4Rejoice in the Lord always. Again, I say, rejoice. 5Let your modesty be known to all men. The Lord is near. 6Be anxious about nothing. But in all things, with prayer and supplication, with acts of thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God. 7And so shall the peace of God, which exceeds all understanding, guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. 8Concerning the rest, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is chaste, whatever is just, whatever is holy, whatever is worthy to be loved, whatever is of good repute, if there is any virtue, if there is any praiseworthy discipline: meditate on these. 9All the things that you have learned and accepted and heard and seen in me, do these. And so shall the God of peace be with you.
15but in accord with him who has called you: the Holy One. And in every behavior, you yourself must be holy, 16for it is written: “You shall be holy, for I am Holy.”
2Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them: The man among you who will offer to the Lord a sacrifice from the cattle, that is, an offering of victims of oxen or sheep:
38Yet truly, Peter said to them: “Do penance; and be baptized, each one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins. And you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.