Leviticus 20

Treated in 8 passages across the library.

  • 20:7 Keep yourselves consecrated, and be holy, because I am the LORD your God. 3
  • 20:8 Keep my statutes and follow them. I am the LORD; I make you holy. 2
  • 20:10 When a man commits adultery with a married woman, the wife of a fellow Israelite, the man and the woman who have committed adultery must both be put to death. 1
  • 20:24 I have told you that you will take over their land; I myself will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the LORD your God; I have set you apart from the other peoples. 1
  • 20:27 A man or a woman who is a medium or a spiritist must be put to death. They are to be stoned; the guilt for their deaths is their own.'" 1

Open Word Bible

  1. Holy in Christ · Andrew Murray

    Holiness and Obedience cites Lev. xx. 7

    …be ye holy; and ye shall keep my statutes and do them. I am the Lord which sanctify you’ (Lev. xx. 7, 8). ‘Therefore shall ye keep my commandments and do them: I am the Lord: I will be…

  2. Holy in Christ · Andrew Murray

    Holiness and Separation cites Lev. xx. 24

    …for I the Lord am holy, and have separated you from other people that ye should be Mine.’—Lev. xx. 24, 26. ‘Until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto the Lord, he…

  3. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.2 The Second Commandment cites Lev 20: 8

    …grace. (9) God shows his mercy in sanctifying us. ‘I am the Lord which sanctify you.’ Lev 20: 8. This is the partaking of the divine nature. 2 Pet 1: 4. God’s Spirit is a spirit of…

  4. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 1, Chapter 8 — The Credibility of Scripture Sufficiently Proved in So Far as Natural Reason Admits cites Lev. 20:27

    …that he ordered every one who should consult soothsayers and magicians to be stoned? (Lev. 20:27). Assuredly, no impostor deals in tricks, without studying to raise his reputation by…

  5. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.7 The Seventh Commandment cites Lev 20: 10

    …adulterer and adulteress shall surely be put to death;’ and the usual death was stoning. Lev 20: 10; Deut 22: 24. The Salons commanded persons taken in this sin to be burnt. The Romans…

  6. A Call to the Unconverted · Richard Baxter

    Sermon III cites Lev. xx. 7

    …If it be bad to be holy, why doth God say, “Be ye holy, for I am holy.” 1 Pet. i. 15, 16. Lev. xx. 7. Is it evil to be like God? Is it not said, “that God made man in His own image?” Why…

  7. Holiness · J. C. Ryle

    Extracts from Old Writers cites Lev. xx. 8

    …am the Lord that doth sanctify you, is a common word in the Old Testament. (Ex. xxxi. 13; Lev. xx. 8.) “2ndly. They are alike and the same in their rise, being both of free grace…

  8. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    The Holiness of God cites Lev 20:7

    …the holiness of others is a lamp lighted from heaven. ‘I am the Lord which sanctify you.’ Lev 20:7. God is not only a pattern of holiness, but he is a principle of holiness: his spring…