Leviticus 20:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“And you shall keep My statutes and practice them. I am the LORD who sanctifies you.”
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“And you shall keep My statutes and practice them. I am the LORD who sanctifies you.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the Lord which sanctify you.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am Jehovah who sanctifieth you.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and ye have kept My statutes and have done them; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah, sanctifying you.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Leviticus 20:8 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 31:13“Tell the Israelites, ‘Surely you must keep My Sabbaths, for this will be a sign between Me and you for the generations to come, so that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you.
- Leviticus 18:4You are to practice My judgments and keep My statutes by walking in them. I am the LORD your God.
- Leviticus 19:19You are to keep My statutes. You shall not crossbreed two different kinds of livestock; you shall not sow your fields with two kinds of seed; and you shall not wear clothing made of two kinds of material.
- Leviticus 19:37You must keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and follow them. I am the LORD.”
- Leviticus 20:26You are to be holy to Me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be My own.
- Leviticus 21:8You are to regard him as holy, since he presents the food of your God. He shall be holy to you, because I the LORD am holy—I who set you apart.
- Leviticus 22:32You must not profane My holy name. I must be acknowledged as holy among the Israelites. I am the LORD who sanctifies you,
- Ezekiel 20:12I also gave them My Sabbaths as a sign between us, so that they would know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.
- Ezekiel 37:28Then the nations will know that I the LORD sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary is among them forever.’”
- Matthew 5:19So then, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do likewise will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever practices and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
- Matthew 7:24Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
- Matthew 12:50For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”
- John 13:17If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
- 1 Corinthians 1:30It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:23Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your entire spirit, soul, and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:13But we should always thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning to be saved by the sanctification of the Spirit and by faith in the truth.
- James 1:22Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.
- Revelation 22:14Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.
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