Keep my statutes and do them; I am the Lord who sanctifies you.
“You are to speak to the people of Israel and say, ‘Above all you shall keep my Sabbaths, for this is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I, the Lord, sanctify you.
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.
Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
You shall sanctify him, for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you, for I, the Lord, who sanctify you, am holy.
Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates.
And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”
“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Then the nations will know that I am the Lord who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.”
Moreover, I gave them my Sabbaths, as a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them.
And you shall observe all my statutes and all my rules, and do them: I am the Lord.”
You shall follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the Lord your God. You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the Lord.
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