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Sanctication
2 Timothy 2:21 ESV / 235 helpful votes
Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from what is
dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set
apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for
every good work.

1 Thessalonians 5:23
3 ESV / 189 helpful votes
Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely,
and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept
blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

John 17:17 ESV / 140 helpful votes

Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 113 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The
old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

2 Thessalonians 2:13
3 ESV / 108 helpful votes
But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers
beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the
firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit
and belief in the truth.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 105 helpful votes

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live,
but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the
flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and

gave himself for me.

1 Thessalonians 4:3 ESV / 77 helpful votes

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you
abstain from sexual immorality;

Romans 6:6 ESV / 66 helpful votes

We know that our old self was crucified with him in order
that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we
would no longer be enslaved to sin.

Hebrews 13:12 ESV / 63 helpful votes

So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify
the people through his own blood.

1 Corinthians 6:11 ESV / 59 helpful votes

And such were some of you. But you were washed, you
were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord
Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

1 Corinthians 1:2 ESV / 57 helpful votes

To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified
in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those
who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ, both their Lord and ours:

Romans 6:1-23 ESV / 57 helpful votes

What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that
grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to
sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have
been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his
death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into
death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead
by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of
life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his,
we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like
his. ...

2 Peter 1:2-4 ESV / 54 helpful votes

May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge
of God and of Jesus our Lord. His divine power has granted
to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through

the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and

excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and
very great promises, so that through them you may become
partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the
corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.

Hebrews 10:14 ESV / 52 helpful votes

For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those
who are being sanctified.

Philippians 1:6 ESV / 43 helpful votes

And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in
you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.

Exodus 31:13 ESV / 41 helpful votes

You are to speak to the people of Israel and say, Above all
you shall keep my Sabbaths, for this is a sign between me
and you throughout your generations, that you may know
that I, the LORD, sanctify you.

1 Thessalonians 4:3--5
5 ESV / 40 helpful votes
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you
abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know
how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in
the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;

1 Peter 1:2 ESV / 37 helpful votes

According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the
sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and
for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be
multiplied to you.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 32 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us
our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Hebrews 9:14 ESV / 30 helpful votes

How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the
eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify
our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

John 17:19 ESV / 30 helpful votes

And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may
be sanctified in truth.

Philippians 2:13 ESV / 28 helpful votes

For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for
his good pleasure.

John 15:1-4 ESV / 27 helpful votes

I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every
branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and
every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may
bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word
that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the
branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the
vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.

Hebrews 12:10 ESV / 26 helpful votes

For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to
them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share
his holiness.

Colossians 3:5 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual
immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and
covetousness, which is idolatry.

Colossians 3:1 ESV / 24 helpful votes

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things
that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of
God.

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality,
impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife,
jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,
envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn
you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things
will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Acts 26:18 ESV / 24 helpful votes

To open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to
light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may
receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who
are sanctified by faith in me.

2 Peter 3:18 ESV / 21 helpful votes

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior

Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day
of eternity. Amen.

2 Corinthians 1:22 ESV / 19 helpful votes

And who has also put his seal on us and given us his Spirit
in our hearts as a guarantee.

Leviticus 21:8 ESV / 19 helpful votes

You shall sanctify him, for he offers the bread of your God.
He shall be holy to you, for I, the LORD, who sanctify you,
am holy.

Galatians 5:16 ESV / 18 helpful votes

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the
desires of the flesh.

Hebrews 2:11 ESV / 17 helpful votes

For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have
one source. That is why he is not ashamed to call them
brothers,

Revelation 7:14 ESV / 16 helpful votes

I said to him, Sir, you know. And he said to me, These
are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have
washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the
Lamb.

Hebrews 12:1 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of
witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which
clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race
that is set before us,

Ephesians 5:25-27 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and
gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having
cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that
he might present the church to himself in splendor, without
spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy
and without blemish.

Ephesians 4:24 ESV / 16 helpful votes

And to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God

in true righteousness and holiness.

Romans 15:16 ESV / 16 helpful votes

To be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the
priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of
the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy
Spirit.

Leviticus 20:8 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Keep my statutes and do them; I am the LORD who
sanctifies you.

Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 15 helpful votes

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are
in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you
free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God
has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not
do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh
and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the
righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us,
who walk not according to the flesh but according to the
Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their
minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live
according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the
Spirit. ...

Romans 6:11 ESV / 15 helpful votes

So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive
to God in Christ Jesus.

John 3:6 ESV / 15 helpful votes

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is
born of the Spirit is spirit.

Romans 6:2 ESV / 13 helpful votes

By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

Exodus 30:29 ESV / 13 helpful votes

You shall consecrate them, that they may be most holy.
Whatever touches them will become holy.

Exodus 13:2 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Consecrate to me all the firstborn. Whatever is the first to
open the womb among the people of Israel, both of man
and of beast, is mine.

Jude 1:24 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to
present you blameless before the presence of his glory with
great joy,

Hebrews 13:21 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Equip you with everything good that you may do his will,
working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through
Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

Ephesians 3:19 ESV / 12 helpful votes

And to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge,
that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

2 Corinthians 12:21 ESV / 12 helpful votes

I fear that when I come again my God may humble me
before you, and I may have to mourn over many of those
who sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity,
sexual immorality, and sensuality that they have practiced.

1 Corinthians 6:9 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the
kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually
immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who
practice homosexuality,

1 Corinthians 1:30 ESV / 12 helpful votes

And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to
us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and
redemption,

Romans 8:28-30 ESV / 12 helpful votes

And we know that for those who love God all things work
together for good, for those who are called according to his
purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined
to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he
might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those
whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he
called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also
glorified.

Romans 6:12 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you
obey its passions.

Exodus 40:9-11 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Then you shall take the anointing oil and anoint the
tabernacle and all that is in it, and consecrate it and all its
furniture, so that it may become holy. You shall also anoint
the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and
consecrate the altar, so that the altar may become most
holy. You shall also anoint the basin and its stand, and
consecrate it.

1 John 3:3 ESV / 11 helpful votes

And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he
is pure.

1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 11 helpful votes

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we
might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds
you have been healed.

Colossians 2:11 ESV / 11 helpful votes

In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made
without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the
circumcision of Christ,

Ephesians 4:13 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the
knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the
measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

Ephesians 1:3 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the
heavenly places,

Matthew 3:11 ESV / 11 helpful votes

I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is
coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not
worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and
fire.

Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 10 helpful votes

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for

good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we

should walk in them.

Ephesians 1:13 ESV / 10 helpful votes

In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the
gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed
with the promised Holy Spirit,

1 Corinthians 13:1-1 3 ESV / 10 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not
love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have
prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all
knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove
mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away
all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but
have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love
does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does
not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

1 Corinthians 12:13 ESV / 10 helpful votes

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one bodyJews
or Greeks, slaves or freeand all were made to drink of one
Spirit.

Romans 13:12 ESV / 10 helpful votes

The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast
off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.

Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 10 helpful votes

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in
the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the LORD, My
refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust. For he
will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the
deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and
under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a
shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night,
nor the arrow that flies by day, ...

Exodus 33:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes

For how shall it be known that I have found favor in your
sight, I and your people? Is it not in your going with us, so
that we are distinct, I and your people, from every other
people on the face of the earth?

1 John 1:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the
truth is not in us.

1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy
nation, a people for his own possession, that you may
proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of
darkness into his marvelous light.

Hebrews 10:10 ESV / 9 helpful votes

And by that will we have been sanctified through the
offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Hebrews 3:12 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil,
unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living
God.

Ephesians 4:16 ESV / 9 helpful votes

From whom the whole body, joined and held together by
every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is
working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds
itself up in love.

Ephesians 4:12 ESV / 9 helpful votes

To equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up
the body of Christ,

Ephesians 1:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the
world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In
love

2 Corinthians 7:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse
ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing
holiness to completion in the fear of God.

2 Corinthians 1:21 ESV / 9 helpful votes

And it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has
anointed us,

1 Corinthians 7:14 ESV / 9 helpful votes

For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his

wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her
husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as
it is, they are holy.

Romans 12:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God,
to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and
acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Ezekiel 37:28 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Then the nations will know that I am the LORD who
sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst
forevermore.

Leviticus 11:44 ESV / 9 helpful votes

For I am the LORD your God. Consecrate yourselves
therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile
yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the
ground.

Hebrews 12:14 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without
which no one will see the Lord.

2 Peter 1:3-11 ESV / 7 helpful votes

His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to
life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called
us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted
to us his precious and very great promises, so that through
them you may become partakers of the divine nature,
having escaped from the corruption that is in the world
because of sinful desire. For this very reason, make every
effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with
knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and
self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with
godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and
brotherly affection with love. ...

Romans 8:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are
in Christ Jesus.

Romans 7:20 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it,

but sin that dwells within me.

Acts 20:32 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And now I commend you to God and to the word of his
grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the
inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

Joel 1:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly. Gather the
elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the
LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before
you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet
to the nations.

1 John 3:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's
seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because
he has been born of God.

1 John 3:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be
has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears
we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.

1 John 1:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes

That which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to
you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and
indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son
Jesus Christ.

James 1:14-15 ESV / 6 helpful votes

But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by
his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives
birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth
death.

Hebrews 6:4-6 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once
been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and
have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the
goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to
come, and then have fallen away, to restore them again to
repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of

God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt.

Ephesians 4:22-24 ESV / 6 helpful votes

To put off your old self, which belongs to your former
manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and
to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the
new self, created after the likeness of God in true
righteousness and holiness.

Galatians 6:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes

But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our
Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to
me, and I to the world.

1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each
man should have his own wife and each woman her own
husband.

1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for
foodand God will destroy both one and the other. The
body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord,
and the Lord for the body.

Romans 5:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have
peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Luke 16:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate
the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one
and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Leviticus 22:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

They shall therefore keep my charge, lest they bear sin for
it and die thereby when they profane it: I am the LORD who
sanctifies them.

Leviticus 21:1-23 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And the LORD said to Moses, Speak to the priests, the sons
of Aaron, and say to them: No one shall make himself

unclean for the dead among his people, except for his
closest relatives, his mother, his father, his son, his
daughter, his brother, or his virgin sister (who is near to
him because she has had no husband; for her he may make
himself unclean). He shall not make himself unclean as a
husband among his people and so profane himself. They
shall not make bald patches on their heads, nor shave off
the edges of their beards, nor make any cuts on their body.
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