18 Best Bible Verses About Sanctification

Update on April 25, 2020 by Pastor Jack Wellman

Sanctification is a word that sounds religious and is use in church and Sunday school but many do not understand what it really means. The easiest way to explain sanctification is something that is set apart for God’s special use and purpose. Therefore, Believers are said to be sanctified because they are set apart for God’s special purposes in the world. Here are the 18 best Bible verses about sanctification!

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

- Hebrews 10:14

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.

- 2 Thessalonians 2:13

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

- John 17:19

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.

- Romans 6:6

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:

- 1 Corinthians 1:2

“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.

- Exodus 31:13

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

- Hebrews 13:12

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.

- 2 Timothy 2:21

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.

- 1 Thessalonians 5:23

Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

- John 17:17

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 6:11

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

- Philippians 2:13

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

- 1 Thessalonians 4:3

May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

- 2 Peter 1:2

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

- 1 John 1:9

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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.

- Galatians 2:20

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