John 17:19

Jesus Prays For His Disciples

¹⁸ Just as thou has sent me as thy Messenger to the world, so I send them as my Messengers to the world. ¹⁹  And it is for their sakes that I am consecrating myself, so that they also may be truly consecrated. ²⁰ But it is not only for them that I am interceding, but also for those who believe in me through their Message,

Set Apart

John

John 10:36

Do you say of one whom the Father has consecrated and sent as his Messenger to the world 'You are blaspheming,' because I said 'I am God's Son'?

1 Corinthians 1:2

From Paul, who has been called to be an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, And from Sosthenes, our Brother.

Titus 2:14

For he gave himself on our behalf, to deliver us from all wickedness, and to purify for himself a People who should be peculiarly his own and eager to do good.

Hebrews 2:11

For he who purifies, and those whom he purifies, all spring from One; and therefore he is not ashamed to call them 'Brothers.'

John 17:17

Consecrate them by the Truth; thy Message is Truth.

2 Corinthians 4:15

For all this is for your sakes, that the loving-kindness of God, spreading from heart to heart, may cause yet more hearts to overflow with thanksgiving, to his glory.

2 Corinthians 8:9

For you do not forget the loving-kindness of our Lord Jesus Christ--how that for your sakes, although he was rich, he became poor, so that you also might become rich through his poverty.

1 Thessalonians 4:7

For God's Call to us does not permit of an impure life, but demands purity.

2 Timothy 2:10

and that is why I submit to anything for the sake of God's People, that they also may obtain the Salvation which comes from union with Christ Jesus, and imperishable glory.

Hebrews 9:13

For, if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of the ashes of a heifer, purify those who have been defiled (as far as ceremonial purification goes),

Hebrews 9:18

This explains why even the first Covenant was not ratified without the shedding of blood.

Hebrews 9:26

for then Christ would have had to undergo death many times since the creation of the world. But now, once and for all, at the close of the age, he has appeared, in order to abolish sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Hebrews 10:5-10

That is why, when he was coming into the world, the Christ declared-- 'Sacrifice and offering thou dost not desire, but thou dost provide for me a body;

Hebrews 10:29

How much worse then, think you, will be the punishment deserved by those who have trampled underfoot the Son of God, who have treated the blood that rendered the Covenant valid--the very blood by which they were purified--as of no account, and who have outraged the Spirit of Love?