Theology & Doctrine
The process of being made holy and set apart.
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For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.
and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;
You shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy.
For it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.
Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,
For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
because it is written, “You shall be holy; for I am holy.”
You shall be holy to me; for I, Yahweh, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine.
Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.
in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;
“‘Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am Yahweh your God.
In holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.
For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
You are to make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean.
for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ;