Holy, Being Holy Like Jesus...No Pressure...

¹⁵Instead, as he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in all your conduct; ¹⁶for it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

Peter looks now to how we should behave.  The benchmark for proper behavior is ‘holiness’, being holy as Jesus himself is Holy

¹⁵Instead, as he who called you is holy, It is a simple declaration.  The question is, what is it to be holy?

be holy yourselves in all your conduct; To be holy is to undertake an activity, an activity that is all-consuming as to who we are.

¹⁶for it is written,  There is to follow a quote from the Old Testament.  The words and the context to be looked at and considered.

 “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”  Is this a promise or is this a demand?  What is Peter drawing from in the Old Testament, the bible of his readers, to make his point in this situation?

The only time the word ‘holy’ is used up to this point is in the title of the “Holy Spirit”, and that is an English translation of a single Greek term.  Holy has a particular usage that we shall consider in more detail in this sentence.