When I demonstrate to the nations the holiness of my great name---the name you disgraced among them---then they will know that I am the LORD. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken. I will use you to show the nations that I am holy.

Then the neighboring nations that have survived will know that I, the LORD, rebuild ruined cities and replant waste fields. I, the LORD, have promised that I would do this---and I will."

In this way I will show all the nations that I am great and that I am holy. They will know then that I am the LORD."

I will make sure that my people Israel know my holy name, and I will not let my name be disgraced any more. Then the nations will know that I, the LORD, am the holy God of Israel."

And the nations will know that the Israelites went into exile because of the sins which they committed against me. I turned away from them and let their enemies defeat them and kill them in battle.

Why should the nations ask us, "Where is your God?" Let us see you punish the nations for shedding the blood of your servants.

The nations will fear the LORD; all the kings of the earth will fear his power.

How we laughed, how we sang for joy! Then the other nations said about us, "The LORD did great things for them."

For when they were rejected, all other people were changed from God's enemies into his friends. What will it be, then, when they are accepted? It will be life for the dead!

I made the keeping of the Sabbath a sign of the agreement between us, to remind them that I, the LORD, make them holy.

to tell the people of Israel, "Keep the Sabbath, my day of rest, because it is a sign between you and me for all time to come, to show that I, the LORD, have made you my own people.

Obey my laws, because I am the LORD and I make you holy."

The people must consider the priest holy, because he presents the food offerings to me. I am the LORD; I am holy and I make my people holy.

Dedicate them to yourself by means of the truth; your word is truth.

And for their sake I dedicate myself to you, in order that they, too, may be truly dedicated to you.

But God has brought you into union with Christ Jesus, and God has made Christ to be our wisdom. By him we are put right with God; we become God's holy people and are set free.

He did this to dedicate the church to God by his word, after making it clean by washing it in water,

May the God who gives us peace make you holy in every way and keep your whole being---spirit, soul, and body---free from every fault at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.