Bible verses about Sanctification
Verses about God making His people holy over the course of a life.
For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;
1 Thessalonians 4:3For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.
1 Thessalonians 4:7Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your entire spirit, soul, and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thessalonians 5:23But we should always thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning to be saved by the sanctification of the Spirit and by faith in the truth.
2 Thessalonians 2:13For both the One who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers.
Hebrews 2:11And by that will, we have been sanctified through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Hebrews 10:10because by a single offering He has made perfect for all time those who are being sanctified.
Hebrews 10:14Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.
John 17:17For them I sanctify Myself, so that they too may be sanctified by the truth.
John 17:19to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
Ephesians 5:26and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.
Ephesians 5:27To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:
1 Corinthians 1:2And that is what some of you were. 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 6:11to 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 an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’
Acts 26:18according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by His blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.
1 Peter 1:2I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.
Romans 6:19But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life.
Romans 6:22Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.
Philippians 2:12For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.
Philippians 2:13