49 Bible Verses about Sanctification

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2 Chronicles 7:16

For now I have chosen and hallowed this house, that my name may be there forever, and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

Ezekiel 20:12

Moreover I also gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am LORD who sanctifies them.

2 Timothy 2:21

If therefore any man purges himself from these things, he will be a vessel for esteem, sanctified and useful to the master, prepared for every good work.

Isaiah 13:3

I have commanded my consecrated ones, yea, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.

Exodus 29:37

Seven days thou shall make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it. And the altar shall be most holy. Whatever touches the altar shall be holy.

Joel 2:16

Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the old men. Gather the sons, and those who suck the breasts. Let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.

Matthew 23:19

Ye foolish and blind men, for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred?

John 17:19

And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they may also themselves be sanctified in truth.

Genesis 2:3

And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it, because in it he rested from all his work which God had created and made.

Exodus 29:44

And I will sanctify the tent of meeting, and the altar. I will also sanctify Aaron and his sons to minister to me in the priest's office.

Romans 6:19

(I speak man-like because of the weakness of your flesh). For as ye presented your body-parts servile to uncleanness, and to lawlessness for lawlessness, so now present your body-parts servile to righteousness for sanctification.

1 Timothy 2:15

But she will be saved through childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety.

Isaiah 8:13

LORD of hosts, him ye shall sanctify, and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

Isaiah 29:23

But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name. Yea, they shall sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall stand in awe of the God of Israel.

Matthew 23:17

Ye foolish and blind men, for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that makes the gold sacred?

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Glory of the The church » Consist in its » Sanctification

Ephesians 5:26-27

so that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it with the washing of water by the word, so that he might present it to himself, the glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and unblemished.

Faith » Through it is » Sanctification

Jesus Christ » Names of » Sanctification

Jews, the » Promises respecting » Sanctification

Jeremiah 33:8

And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against me. And I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned against me, and by which they have transgressed against me.

Zechariah 12:1

The burden of the word of LORD concerning Israel. [Thus] says LORD, who stretches forth the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him:

Zechariah 12:9

And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

Sanctification » The lord sanctifying

Leviticus 21:8

Thou shall sanctify him therefore, for he offers the bread of thy God. He shall be holy to thee, for I LORD, who sanctify you, am holy.

Jeremiah 1:4-5

Now the word of LORD came to me, saying, Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee, and before thou came forth out of the womb I sanctified thee. I have appointed thee a prophet to the nations.

Ezekiel 38:23

And I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations. And they shall know that I am LORD.

Sanctification » Encouraged

2 Chronicles 29:5

and said to them, Hear me, ye Levites. Now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of LORD, the God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.

Sanctification » How secured

2 Timothy 2:21

If therefore any man purges himself from these things, he will be a vessel for esteem, sanctified and useful to the master, prepared for every good work.

Sanctification » Typified

Exodus 19:14

And Moses went down from the mount to the people, and sanctified the people, and they washed their garments.

Genesis 2:3

And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it, because in it he rested from all his work which God had created and made.

Exodus 40:9-15

And thou shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is in it, and shall hallow it, and all the furniture of it. And it shall be holy. And thou shall anoint the altar of burnt-offering, and all its vessels, and sanctify the altar. And the altar shall be most holy. And thou shall anoint the laver and its base, and sanctify it. read more.
And thou shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tent of meeting, and shall wash them with water. And thou shall put upon Aaron the holy garments, and thou shall anoint him, and sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest's office. And thou shall bring his sons, and put coats upon them, and thou shall anoint them, as thou anointed their father, that they may minister to me in the priest's office. And their anointing shall be to them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.

Leviticus 27:14-16

And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy to LORD, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad. As the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand. And if he who sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation to it, and it shall be his. And if a man shall sanctify to LORD part of the field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the sowing of it, the sowing of a homer of barley at fifty shekels of silver.

Sanctification » The lord being sanctified

Isaiah 5:16

but LORD of hosts is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.

Ezekiel 36:22-23

Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says lord LORD: I do not do [this] for your sake, O house of Israel, but for my holy name, which ye have profaned among the nations where ye went. And I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which ye have profaned in the midst of them. And the nations shall know that I am LORD, says lord LORD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their ey

Ezekiel 28:25

Thus says lord LORD: When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the nations, then they shall dwell in their own land which I gave t

Ezekiel 38:14-16

Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and say to Gog, Thus says lord LORD: In that day when my people Israel dwell securely, shall thou not know it? And thou shall come from thy place out of the outermost parts of the north, thou, and many peoples with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company and a mighty army. And thou shall come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land. It shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring thee against my land, that the nations may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Go

Ezekiel 39:25-27

Therefore thus says lord LORD: Now I will bring back the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel. And I will be jealous for my holy name. And they shall bear their shame, and all their trespasses by which they have trespassed against me, when they shall dwell securely in their land. And none shall make them afraid when I have brought them back from the peoples, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations.

Sanctification » What is sanctified

Genesis 2:1-3

And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it, because in it he rested from all his work which God had created and made.

2 Chronicles 30:8

Now be ye not stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve LORD your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.

1 Timothy 4:1-5

But the Spirit says expressly that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, their own conscience having been seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry, to abstain from foods, which God created for partaking with thankfulness by those who believe and know the truth. read more.
Because every creation of God is good, and nothing rejected that is received with thankfulness, for it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.

Sanctification » Everyone being sanctified through the blood of jesus Christ

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Or know ye not that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not led astray. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate men, nor homosexuals, nor greedy men, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor the slanderous, nor the predatory will inherit the kingdom of God. And some of you were these things, but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were made righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

Hebrews 10:1-14

For the law having a shadow of the good things that are coming, not the same substance of the events, with the same sacrifices that are offered continually each year, they are never able to fully perfect those who are approaching. Otherwise would they not have ceased being offered, because of those who worship, once having been cleansed, to have no further conscience of sins? But in them is a reminder of sins each year. read more.
For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering thou did not desire, but thou prepared for me a body. In whole burnt offerings, and for sin thou were not pleased. Then I said, Lo, I come (in the volume of a book it is written about me) to do thy will, O God, saying above, Sacrifice and offering and whole burnt offerings and for sin thou did not desire, nor were thou pleased with things that are offered according to the law. Then he said, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He takes away the first, so that he may establish the second. By which will we are sanctified through the one time offering of the body of Jesus Christ. And indeed every priest stands daily serving and offering the same sacrifices often, which can never take away sins. But this man, having offered one sacrifice on behalf of sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, waiting henceforth until his enemies are placed a footstool of his feet. For by one offering he has fully perfected forever those being sanctified.

Hebrews 13:10-12

We have an altar from which they have no right to eat, those officiating at the tabernacle. For of the beasts whose blood is brought into the holy things for sin by the high priest, the bodies of these are burned outside the camp. Therefore Jesus also, so that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside the gate.

Sanctification » Effected by » God

Ezekiel 37:28

And the nations shall know that I am LORD, who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.

Sanctification » Those that are sanctified

Hebrews 2:9-11

But we see Jesus who has been made a little something less than the heavenly agents, who, because of the suffering of death, has been crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God he would taste of death for every man. For it was fitting for him, through whom are all things, and because of whom are all things, having brought many sons to glory, to make the pathfinder of their salvation fully perfect through sufferings. For both he who sanctifies and those being sanctified are all of one, because of which reason he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

Hebrews 10:10-14

By which will we are sanctified through the one time offering of the body of Jesus Christ. And indeed every priest stands daily serving and offering the same sacrifices often, which can never take away sins. But this man, having offered one sacrifice on behalf of sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, read more.
waiting henceforth until his enemies are placed a footstool of his feet. For by one offering he has fully perfected forever those being sanctified.

Sanctification » All saints are in a state of

Sanctification » Should exhort their people to walk in

1 Thessalonians 4:1

Finally therefore, brothers, we ask you, and summon in Lord Jesus, that just as ye received from us how ye ought to walk and to please God, that ye may abound more.

Sanctification » Sanctifying yourself

Leviticus 11:44

For I am LORD your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and become ye holy, since I am holy. Neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that moves upon the earth.

Sanctification » Saints elected to salvation through

Sanctification » Effected by » The holy ghost

Sanctification » The lord is the sanctifier

Leviticus 21:8

Thou shall sanctify him therefore, for he offers the bread of thy God. He shall be holy to thee, for I LORD, who sanctify you, am holy.

Exodus 31:13

Speak thou also to the sons of Israel, saying, Truly ye shall keep my Sabbaths, for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that ye may know that I am LORD who sanctifies you.

Leviticus 22:9

They shall therefore keep my charge, lest they bear sin for it, and die in it if they profane it. I am LORD who sanctifies them.

Leviticus 20:8

And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them. I am LORD who sanctifies you.

Sanctification » Is separation to the service of God

Sanctification » Through the atonement of Christ

Sanctification » Holiness

Ephesians 5:7-9

Do not become ye therefore partakers with them. For ye were once darkness, but now light in Lord. Walk as children of light (for the fruit of the spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

Sanctification » Effected by » Christ

Sanctification » Through the word of God

John 17:19

And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they may also themselves be sanctified in truth.

Sanctification » Husbands and wives being sanctified by their spouses

1 Corinthians 7:10-16

And to those who are married, I do not command but the Lord. The wife is not to separate from her husband. But even if she separates, she shall remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband is not to leave his wife. But to the rest I say, not the Lord. If any brother has an unbelieving wife, and this woman consents to dwell with him, he should not leave her. read more.
And whichever woman has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to dwell with her, she should not leave him. For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified by the husband, then otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy. But if the unbeliever separates, he shall separate. The brother or the sister has not been bound in such things. And God has called us to peace. For how do thou know, O wife, whether thou will save thy husband? Or how will thou know, O husband, whether thou will save thy wife?

Sanctification » Mortification of sin

1 Thessalonians 4:3-4

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, for you to abstain from fornication, for each of you to know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and reverence,

Sanctification » Should pray that their people may enjoy complete

Sanctification » None can inherit the kingdom of God without

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Or know ye not that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not led astray. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate men, nor homosexuals, nor greedy men, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor the slanderous, nor the predatory will inherit the kingdom of God. And some of you were these things, but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were made righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

Sanctification » God wills all saints to have

Sanctification » Tabernacle sanctified by God's presence

Exodus 29:43

And there I will meet with the sons of Israel, and [the tent] shall be sanctified by my glory.

Exodus 40:34-35

Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of LORD filled the tabernacle. And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of meeting, because the cloud abode thereupon, and the glory of LORD filled the tabernacle.

Sanctification » Christ made, of God, to us

Sanctification » The church made glorious by

Ephesians 5:26-27

so that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it with the washing of water by the word, so that he might present it to himself, the glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and unblemished.

Sanctification » In Christ

Sanctification » Those that sanctify themselves with abominations

Isaiah 66:15-17

For, behold, LORD will come with fire, and his chariots shall be like the whirlwind, to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire. For by fire LORD will execute judgment, and by his sword, upon all flesh, and the slain of LORD shall be many. Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves [to go] to the gardens, behind one in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, they shall come to an end together, says LORD.

Sanctification » The alter sanctifies the gift

Exodus 29:37

Seven days thou shall make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it. And the altar shall be most holy. Whatever touches the altar shall be holy.

Exodus 30:29

And thou shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy.

Sanctification » Sanctifying the lord

Isaiah 8:12-13

Say ye not, A conspiracy, concerning all of which this people shall say, A conspiracy, nor fear ye their fear, nor be in dread [of it]. LORD of hosts, him ye shall sanctify, and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

Sanctification » Saints fitted for the service of God by

2 Timothy 2:21

If therefore any man purges himself from these things, he will be a vessel for esteem, sanctified and useful to the master, prepared for every good work.

Sanctification » Jesus Christ being sanctified by God the father

John 10:34-36

Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, ye are gods? If he designated those men gods, for whom the word of God came to be (and the scripture cannot be broken), whom the Father made holy and sent into the world, do ye say, Thou blaspheme, because I said, I am the Son of God?

Sanctification » Offering up of saints acceptable through

Sanctification » Set apart to God's service by

Sanctification » All israel sanctified

Exodus 19:14

And Moses went down from the mount to the people, and sanctified the people, and they washed their garments.

Exodus 19:10

And LORD said to Moses, Go to the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments,

Sanctification » Material things sanctified by anointing

Exodus 40:9-11

And thou shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is in it, and shall hallow it, and all the furniture of it. And it shall be holy. And thou shall anoint the altar of burnt-offering, and all its vessels, and sanctify the altar. And the altar shall be most holy. And thou shall anoint the laver and its base, and sanctify it.

Sanctification » Firstborn of israelites sanctified

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Sanctification, Nature And Basis

Ezekiel 39:7

And I will make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel, nor will I allow my holy name to be profaned any more. And the nations shall know that I am LORD, the Holy One in Israel.

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