You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
“Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.
Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.
You shall be blameless before the Lord your God,
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.
And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.
A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.
When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless,
In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil. There were born to him seven sons and three daughters. He possessed 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east.
For I am the Lord your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground.
Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you.
so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
You shall be holy to me, for I the Lord am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you, always struggling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.
For we are glad when we are weak and you are strong. Your restoration is what we pray for.
Mark the blameless and behold the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.
Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles—
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