Bible verses about "sanctification" | Moffatt

⁶ knowing as we do that our old self has been crucified with him in order to crush the sinful body and free us from any further slavery to sin

¹¹ Some of you were once like that; but you washed yourselves clean, you were consecrated, you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

² to the church of God at Corinth, to those who are consecrated in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, as well as to all who, wherever they may be, invoke the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord no less than ours:

¹ Now what are we to infer from this? That we are to 'remain on in sin, so that there may be all the more grace'? ² Never! How can we live in sin any longer, when we died to sin? ³ Surely you know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into his death! ⁴ Our baptism in his death made us share his burial, so that, as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live and move in the new sphere of Life. ⁵ For if we have grown into him by a death like his, we shall grow into him by a resurrection like his, ⁶ knowing as we do that our old self has been crucified with him in order to crush the sinful body and free us from any further slavery to sin ⁷ (for once dead, a man is absolved from the claims of sin). ⁸ We believe that as we have died with Christ we shall also live with him; ⁹ for we know that Christ never dies after his resurrection from the dead — death has no more hold over him; ¹⁰ the death he died was for sin, once for all, but the life he lives is for God. ¹¹ So you must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. ¹² Sin is not to reign, then, over your mortal bodies and make you obey their passions; ¹³ you must not let sin have your members for the service of vice, you must dedicate yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life, dedicating your members to God for the service of righteousness. ¹⁴ Sin must have no hold over you, for you live under grace, not under law. ¹⁵ What follows, then? Are we 'to sin, because we live under grace, not under law'? Never! ¹⁶ Do you not know you are the servants of the master you obey, of the master to whom you yield yourselves obedient, whether it is Sin, whose service ends in death, or Obedience, whose service ends in righteousness? ¹⁷ Thank God, though you did serve sin, you have rendered whole-hearted obedience to what you were taught under the rule of faith; ¹⁸ set free from sin, you have passed into the service of righteousness. ¹⁹ (I use this human analogy to bring the truth home to your weak nature.) As you once dedicated your members to the service of vice and lawlessness, so now dedicate them to the service of righteousness that means consecration. ²⁰ When you served sin, you were free of righteousness. ²¹ Well, what did you gain then by it all? Nothing but what you are now ashamed of! The end of all that is death; ²² but now that you are set free from sin, now that you have passed into the service of God, your gain is consecration, and the end of that is life eternal. ²³ Sin's wage is death, but God's gift is life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord.

³ It is God's will that you should be consecrated, that you abstain from sexual vice,

¹² and so Jesus also suffered outside the gate, in order to sanctify the people by his own blood.

¹⁴ For by a single offering he has made the sanctified perfect for all time.

²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, Christ lives in me; the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.

¹⁷ There is a new creation whenever a man comes to be in Christ; what is old is gone, the new has come.

¹³ Now we are bound always to thank God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you as the first to be reaped for salvation, by the consecration of your spirit and by faith in the Truth;

¹⁷ Consecrate them by thy truth: thy word is truth.

²³ May the God of peace consecrate you through and through! Spirit, soul, and body, may you be kept without break or blame till the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ!

²¹ If one will only keep clear of the latter, he will be put to noble use, he will be consecrated and useful to the Owner of the House, he will be set apart for good work of all kinds.