Sanctification
57 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
26 sections
- All Israel Sanctified
- All Saints are in a State of
- Christ Made, of God, to Us
- Effected by Christ
- Effected by God
- Effected by The Holy Spirit
- Firstborn of Israelites Sanctified
- God Wills all Saints to Have
- Material Things Sanctified by Anointing
- Ministers: Set Apart to God's Service By
- Ministers: should Exhort Their People to Walk In
- Ministers: should Pray That Their People May Enjoy Complete
- None Can Inherit the Kingdom of God Without
- Offering up of Saints Acceptable Through
- Saints Elected to Salvation Through
- Saints Fitted for the Service of God By
- should Lead to Holiness
- should Lead to Mortification of Sin
- Tabernacle Sanctified by God's Presence
- The Alter Sanctifies the Gift
- The Church Made Glorious By
- The Lord is the Sanctifier
- Through the Atonement of Christ
- Through the Word of God
- Typified
- Unclassified Scriptures Relating To
All Israel Sanctified
- Exodus 19:10 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. They must wash their clothes
- Exodus 19:14 When Moses came down from the mountain to the people, he consecrated them, and they washed their clothes.
All Saints are in a State of
- Acts 20:32 And now I commit you to God and to the word of His grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.
- Acts 26:18 to 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.’
- 1 Corinthians 6:11 And 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.
Christ Made, of God, to Us
- 1 Corinthians 1:30 It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.
Effected by Christ
- Hebrews 2:11 For 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 13:12 And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate, to sanctify the people by His own blood.
Effected by God
- Ezekiel 37:28 Then the nations will know that I the LORD sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary is among them forever.’”
- 1 Thessalonians 5:23 Now 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.
- Jude 1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James, To those who are called, loved by God the Father, and kept in Jesus Christ:
Effected by The Holy Spirit
- Romans 15:16 to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
- 1 Corinthians 6:11 And 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.
Firstborn of Israelites Sanctified
- Exodus 13:2 “Consecrate to Me every firstborn male. The firstborn from every womb among the Israelites belongs to Me, both of man and beast.”
God Wills all Saints to Have
- 1 Thessalonians 4:3 For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;
Material Things Sanctified by Anointing
- Exodus 40:9–11 Take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and everything in it; consecrate it along with all its furnishings, and it shall be holy. …
Ministers: Set Apart to God's Service By
- Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
Ministers: should Exhort Their People to Walk In
- 1 Thessalonians 4:1 Finally, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live in a way that is pleasing to God, just as you have received from us. This is how you already live, so you should do so all the more.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:3 For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;
Ministers: should Pray That Their People May Enjoy Complete
- 1 Thessalonians 5:23 Now 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.
None Can Inherit the Kingdom of God Without
- 1 Corinthians 6:9–11 Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts, …
Offering up of Saints Acceptable Through
- Romans 15:16 to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
Saints Elected to Salvation Through
- 2 Thessalonians 2:13 But we should always thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning to be saved by the sanctification of the Spirit and by faith in the truth.
- 1 Peter 1:2 according 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.
Saints Fitted for the Service of God By
- 2 Timothy 2:21 So if anyone cleanses himself of what is unfit, he will be a vessel for honor: sanctified, useful to the Master, and prepared for every good work.
should Lead to Holiness
- Romans 6:22 But 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.
- Ephesians 5:7–9 Therefore do not be partakers with them. …
should Lead to Mortification of Sin
- 1 Thessalonians 4:3–4 For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality; …
Tabernacle Sanctified by God's Presence
- Exodus 29:43 I will also meet with the Israelites there, and that place will be consecrated by My glory.
- Exodus 40:34–35 Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. …
The Alter Sanctifies the Gift
- Exodus 29:37 For seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will become most holy; whatever touches the altar will be holy.
- Exodus 30:29 You are to consecrate them so that they will be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy.
The Church Made Glorious By
- Ephesians 5:26–27 to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, …
The Lord is the Sanctifier
- Exodus 31:13 “Tell the Israelites, ‘Surely you must keep My Sabbaths, for this will be a sign between Me and you for the generations to come, so that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you.
- Leviticus 20:8 And you shall keep My statutes and practice them. I am the LORD who sanctifies you.
- Leviticus 21:8 You are to regard him as holy, since he presents the food of your God. He shall be holy to you, because I the LORD am holy — I who set you apart.
- Leviticus 22:9 The priests must keep My charge, lest they bear the guilt and die because they profane it. I am the LORD who sanctifies them.
Through the Atonement of Christ
- Hebrews 10:10 And by that will, we have been sanctified through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
- Hebrews 13:12 And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate, to sanctify the people by His own blood.
Through the Word of God
- John 17:17 Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.
- John 17:19 For them I sanctify Myself, so that they too may be sanctified by the truth.
- Ephesians 5:26 to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
Typified
- Genesis 2:3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished.
- Exodus 13:2 “Consecrate to Me every firstborn male. The firstborn from every womb among the Israelites belongs to Me, both of man and beast.”
- Exodus 19:14 When Moses came down from the mountain to the people, he consecrated them, and they washed their clothes.
- Exodus 40:9–15 Take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and everything in it; consecrate it along with all its furnishings, and it shall be holy. …
- Leviticus 27:14–16 Now if a man consecrates his house as holy to the LORD, then the priest shall value it either as good or bad. The price will stand just as the priest values it. …
Unclassified Scriptures Relating To
- Exodus 31:13 “Tell the Israelites, ‘Surely you must keep My Sabbaths, for this will be a sign between Me and you for the generations to come, so that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you.
- Exodus 33:16 For how then can it be known that Your people and I have found favor in Your sight, unless You go with us? How else will we be distinguished from all the other people on the face of the earth?”
- Leviticus 21:1–23 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to Aaron’s sons, the priests, and tell them that a priest is not to defile himself for a dead person among his people, …
- Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
- Ezekiel 37:28 Then the nations will know that I the LORD sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary is among them forever.’”
- John 17:17 Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.
- John 17:19 For them I sanctify Myself, so that they too may be sanctified by the truth.
- Acts 26:17–18 I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them …
- Romans 15:16 to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
- 1 Corinthians 1:2 To 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 1:30 It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.
- 1 Corinthians 6:11 And 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 13:1–13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal. …
- 2 Corinthians 1:21–22 Now it is God who establishes both us and you in Christ. He anointed us, …
- Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
- Galatians 6:14 But as for me, may I never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
- Ephesians 1:3–4 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms. …
- Ephesians 3:19 of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
- Ephesians 4:7 Now to each one of us grace has been given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
- Ephesians 4:12–13 to equip the saints for works of ministry and to build up the body of Christ, …
- Ephesians 4:15–16 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ Himself, who is the head. …
- Ephesians 5:25–27 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her …
- Colossians 2:11 In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of your sinful nature, with the circumcision performed by Christ and not by human hands.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:3–4 For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality; …
- 1 Thessalonians 5:23 Now 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.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:13–14 But we should always thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning to be saved by the sanctification of the Spirit and by faith in the truth. …
- 2 Timothy 2:11 This is a trustworthy saying: If we died with Him, we will also live with Him;
- 2 Timothy 2:21 So if anyone cleanses himself of what is unfit, he will be a vessel for honor: sanctified, useful to the Master, and prepared for every good work.
- Hebrews 2:11 For 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 9:14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!
- Hebrews 10:10 And by that will, we have been sanctified through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
- Hebrews 10:14 because by a single offering He has made perfect for all time those who are being sanctified.
- Hebrews 12:10 Our fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness.
- Hebrews 13:12 And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate, to sanctify the people by His own blood.
- Hebrews 13:21 equip you with every good thing to do His will. And may He accomplish in us what is pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
- 1 Peter 1:2 according 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.
- 2 Peter 1:2–4 Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. …
- 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
- Jude 24 Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy —
- Revelation 7:14 “Sir,” I answered, “you know.” So he replied, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.