Sanctification

Sanctification is being made holy or set apart for God. This page lists verses on sanctification as God's will, being sanctified through Christ, the work of the Spirit, the word of God, and growing in holiness.

God's will for believers

• 1 Thessalonians 4:3-4
  ³For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: ⁴That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
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• 1 Thessalonians 4:7
  For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
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• 1 Thessalonians 5:23
  And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Sanctified through Christ

• Hebrews 10:10
  By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
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• Hebrews 10:14
  For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
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• 1 Corinthians 1:30
  But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
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• 1 Corinthians 6:11
  And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
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The work of the Spirit

• 2 Thessalonians 2:13
  But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
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• 1 Peter 1:2
  Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
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• 2 Corinthians 3:18
  But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
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• Galatians 5:22-23
  ²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, ²³Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
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Through the word

• John 17:17
  Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
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• Ephesians 5:25-26
  ²⁵Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; ²⁶That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
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Growing in holiness

• Romans 6:22
  But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
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• Romans 12:1-2
  ¹I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. ²And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
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• Philippians 1:6
  Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
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• Philippians 2:12-13
  ¹²Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. ¹³For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
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• Hebrews 12:14
  Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
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See also

• Holiness
• Holy Spirit
• Justification

Notes

1. Verses are quoted in the translation chosen in the Translation menu at the top of the page. See Translations for sources and copyright notices.
2. Each reference links to the full chapter so the verse can be read in context.