sanctification
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21If anyone, then, will have cleansed himself from these things, he shall be a vessel held in honor, sanctified and useful to the Lord, prepared for every good work.
23And may the God of peace himself sanctify you through all things, so that your whole spirit and soul and body may be preserved without blame unto the return of our Lord Jesus Christ.
17Sanctify them in truth. Your word is truth.
13He has also called you into truth through our Gospel, unto the acquisition of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
3For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from fornication,
11And some of you were like this. But you have been absolved, but you have been sanctified, but you have been justified: all in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
20I live; yet now, it is not I, but truly Christ, who lives in me. And though I live now in the flesh, I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and who delivered himself for me.
2in accord with the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, with the obedience and the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: May grace and peace be multiplied for you.
17So if anyone is a new creature in Christ, what is old has passed away. Behold, all things have been made new.
14For, by one oblation, he has brought to fulfillment, for all time, those who are sanctified.
6I am confident of this very thing: that he who has begun this good work in you will perfect it, unto the day of Christ Jesus.
30But you are of him in Christ Jesus, who was made by God to be our wisdom and justice and sanctification and redemption.
12Because of this, Jesus, too, in order to sanctify the people by his own blood, suffered outside the gate.
6For we know this: that our former selves have been crucified together with him, so that the body which is of sin may be destroyed, and moreover, so that we may no longer serve sin.
14Pursue peace with everyone. Pursue sanctity, without which no one shall see God.