Exodus 22:31. “You shall be consecrated to me.
Revelation 4:8 And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”
Revelation 6:10 They cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”
Leviticus 11:45 For I am the LORD who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.”
Leviticus 19:2 “Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy.
Deuteronomy 14:21 For you are a people holy to the LORD your God.
1 Peter 1:15-16 but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
You shall be holy men unto me. The holiness really desired was holiness of heart and spirit. Outward ordinances could not effect this; but, to keep the thought perpetually before- men’s minds. (Ellicott)
And ye shall be holy men unto me,…. They were so by God’s act of election, not special and particular, but general and national; choosing and separating them to be an holy people to him, above all the people on the face of the earth. (Gill)
And ye shall be holy men unto me. Ye shall not be as other men, but “an holy nation, a peculiar people;” (Unknown)
The moral excellence of God that unifies his attributes and is expressed through his actions, setting him apart from all others. Believers are called to be holy as God is holy. God’s nature is holy, He is perfect, He is uniquely holy, God’s name is holy, God’s dwelling-place is holy, God’s holiness is revealed in his righteous activity, God’s people are to be holy because he is holy, The holiness of believers originates from God., God’s holiness is to be seen in his people, God’s holiness makes sin objectionable to him, God’s holiness necessitates dependence upon him for forgiveness.
We do well to seek to ever-grow in our understanding of God’s Holiness and the sinfulness of sin.