STRIVE TO BE PERFECT

AND HOLY.

Gen. v. 24. And Enoch walked with God:... Gen. vi. 9. Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

Gen. xvii. 1.... The Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.

Ex. xix. 5. Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people...

6. And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.

8. And all the people answered... All that the Lord hath spoken, we will do.

14. And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people;

22. And let the priests also, which come near to the Lord, sanctify themselves...

Ex. xxii. 81. And ye shall be holy men unto me. Lev. x. 3. This is it that the Lord spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me...

Lev. xix. 2. Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy for I the Lord your God am holy.

Lev. xxi. 6. They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God.

Lev. xxii. 81. Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am the Lord.

82. Neither shall ye profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the Lord which hallow you.

Lev. xxvi. 2. Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.

Nu. xv. 39. ... That ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes...

40. That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.

Nu. xvi. 5....

The Lord will shew who are his, and who is holy.

Deu. xiv. 2. For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.

Deu. xviii. 18. Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God.

Deu. xxvi. 19. ...That thou mayest be an holy people unto the Lord thy God, as he hath spoken.

Deu. xxxiii. 3. Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words.

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Jos. vii. 13. Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow.

1 Sa, xiv. 36. Let us draw near hither unto God.

1 Ki. viii. 61. Let your heart therefore be perfect with the Lord our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.

2 Ki. xx. 3. I beseech thee, O Lord, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight.

1 Ch. xv. 12. Ye are the chief of the fathers of the Levites sanctify yourselves, both ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel unto the place that I have prepared for it.

1 Ch. xvi. 29. Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.

1 Ch. xxviii. 9. And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind.

1 Ch. xxix. 9. Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the Lord.

2 Ch. xv. 17.... The heart of Asa was perfect all his days. 18. And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated...

2 Ch. xvi. 9. The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong

in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.

2 Ch. xvii. 8. And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David...

6. And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord...

2 Ch. xix. 4. And he went out again through the people...and brought them back unto the Lord God of their fathers.

9. And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of the Lord, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.

2 Ch. xxvii. 6. So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the Lord his God.

2 Ch. xxix. 3. He (Hezekiah) in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the Lord, and repaired them.

4. And he brought in the priests and the Levites...

5. And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the Lord God of your fathers...

10. Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel...

11. My sons, be not now negligent: for the Lord hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him...

2 Ch. xxx. 8. Yield yourselves unto the Lord, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever and serve the Lord your God...

24.... And a great number of priests sanctified themselves.

2 Ch. xxxi. 18. ... For in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness.

20. And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the Lord his God.

21. And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart and prospered.

Job i. 8. And the Lord said... hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?

Job viii. 20. Behold, God will not cast away a perfect

man,...

Ps. iv. 3. But know that the Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself...

Ps. v. 7. But as for me, I will come into thine house... and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.

P8. xviii. 26. With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure...

32. It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.

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