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40 The tassels will help you remember that you must obey all my commands and be holy to your God.

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A Living Sacrifice to God

12 And so, dear brothers and sisters,[a] I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 12:1a Greek brothers.
  2. 12:1b Or This is your spiritual worship; or This is your reasonable service.

God has called us to live holy lives, not impure lives.

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44 For I am the Lord your God. You must consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy. So do not defile yourselves with any of these small animals that scurry along the ground. 45 For I, the Lord, am the one who brought you up from the land of Egypt, that I might be your God. Therefore, you must be holy because I am holy.

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15 But now you must be holy in everything you do, just as God who chose you is holy. 16 For the Scriptures say, “You must be holy because I am holy.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 1:16 Lev 11:44-45; 19:2; 20:7.

We are writing to God’s holy people in the city of Colosse, who are faithful brothers and sisters[a] in Christ.

May God our Father give you grace and peace.

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  1. 1:2 Greek faithful brothers.

Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes.

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“Give the following instructions to the entire community of Israel. You must be holy because I, the Lord your God, am holy.

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