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The Lexham Research Commentary is your starting point for study and research. It surveys all the relevant literature on a passage and brings the summary back to you. This guide summarizes a broad range of views on a particular passage—views you may or may not agree with, but in all cases, views you will encounter as you critically study the text. A complete introduction to each literary unit in...

Peter quotes verbatim Leviticus 11:44–45, albeit with a slightly different word order from both the LXX and MT. In doing so, he backs up his imperative with a passage that he assumes is familiar to his readers. Since Leviticus is representative of much of the Old Testament’s teaching on “holiness,” further examination of it can offer a better understanding of Peter’s message. The Hebrew root q-d-sh occurs over seven hundred times in the Hebrew
1 Peter 1:13–18
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