1 Peter 1:15

Because the God who called them is holy, believers are to be holy in all their conduct. Holiness in every area of life is the fitting response to a holy God's call.

Cross-references · 31

• Matt 5:48Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
• 2 Cor 7:1Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
• Heb 12:14Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
• Jas 3:13Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.
• Eph 5:1–2Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
• 1 Jn 3:3Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
• 1 Th 4:3–7For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
• Phil 2:15–16that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
• 1 Pet 2:12having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.
• 1 Pet 2:9But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
• Phil 1:27Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;
• Luke 1:74–75to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, should serve him without fear,
• Rom 8:28–30We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
• 2 Pet 3:11–14Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,
• Heb 13:5Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”
• Titus 3:14Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.
• Rev 3:7“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:
• Isa 6:3One called to another, and said, “Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh of Armies! The whole earth is full of his glory!”
• 2 Tim 1:9who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
• Titus 2:11–14For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,
• Phil 3:14I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
• Phil 3:20For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;
• 2 Pet 1:3–10seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue;
• 1 Tim 4:12Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.
• 1 Th 2:12to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.
• Titus 3:8This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;
• 1 Pet 5:10But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
• 1 Pet 3:16having a good conscience; that, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.
• Rev 6:10They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”
• Rev 4:8The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!”
• Rom 9:24us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?

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