Sanctify yourselves therefore
By abstaining from such impious and idolatrous practices, and
separating themselves from all that gave into them, as well as by
observing the holy commandments of the Lord; otherwise internal
sanctification is not the work of man, but of the Lord himself,
as in ( Leviticus
20:8 ) :
and be ye holy;
or a separate people from all others in worship and conversation:
for I [am] the Lord your God;
who is a holy God, and therefore it became them to be holy, in
imitation of him, ( Leviticus
19:2 ) .