⁴⁴ For I am the Lord your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and ^(A)be holy, for I am holy. ^(B)You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground. ^45 (C)For I am the Lord who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God. ^(D)You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.”

^7 (A)Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God. ^8 (B)Keep my statutes and do them; ^(C)I am the Lord who sanctifies you.

Heirs with Christ

¹² So then, brothers,^[a] we are debtors, ^(A)not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.