Bible Verses About Sanctification

who also sealed us, and gave us the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

Wherefore Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, And touch no unclean thing; And I will receive you,

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

But far be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world hath been crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

Blessedbethe God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ:

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:

and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God.

But unto each one of us was the grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ:

till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a fullgrown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

but speaking truth in love, may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, even Christ;

from whom all the body fitly framed and knit together through that which every joint supplieth, according to the working in due measure of each several part, maketh the increase of the body unto the building up of itself in love.

Be not ye therefore partakers with them;

for ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light

(for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

that he might present the church to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

in whom ye were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk,—that ye abound more and more.

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;

that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, for that God chose you from the beginning unto salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

whereunto he called you through our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.