holy
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16for it is written: “You shall be holy, for I 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!”
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.”
16Do you not know that you are the Temple of God, and that the Spirit of God lives within you? 17But if anyone violates the Temple of God, God will destroy him. For the Temple of God is holy, and you are that Temple.
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.
21If anyone, then, will have cleansed himself from these things, he shall be a vessel held in honor, sanctified and useful to the Lord, prepared for every good work.
26But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will suggest to you everything whatsoever that I have said to you.
22But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, forbearance, 23meekness, faith, modesty, abstinence, chastity. There is no law against such things.
8And each of the four living creatures had upon them six wings, and all around and within they are full of eyes. And they took no rest, day or night, from saying: “Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and who is, and who is to come.”
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.
4But you dwell in holiness, O Praise of Israel.
8But you shall receive the power of the Holy Spirit, passing over you, and you shall be witnesses for me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the ends of the earth.”
1For the First Sabbath. A Psalm of David. The earth and all its fullness belong to the Lord: the whole world and all that dwells in it. 2For he has founded it upon the seas, and he has prepared it upon the rivers. 3Who will ascend to the mountain of the Lord? And who will stand in his holy place? 4The innocent of hands and the clean of heart, who has not received his soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbor. 5He will receive a blessing from the Lord, and mercy from God, his Savior. 6This is the generation that seeks him, that seeks the face of the God of Jacob.