Thursday, June 11, 2009

Sanctification word study continued

Romans 6:19 I am using a human analogy because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you offered the parts of yourselves as slaves to moral impurity, and to greater and greater lawlessness, so now offer them as slaves to righteousness, which results in sanctification. [sanctification=consecration, purification, the effect of consecration~~from to render or acknowledge, or to be venerable or hallow, to separate from profane things and dedicate to God, to purify~~from most holy thing, a saint]

Romans 6:22 But now, since you have been liberated from sin and become enslaved to God, you have your fruit, which results in sanctification--and the end is eternal life! [sanctification=consecration, purification, the effect of consecration~~from to render or acknowledge, or to be venerable or hallow, to separate from profane things and dedicate to God, to purify~~from most holy thing, a saint]

Romans 15:16 to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of God's good news. My purpose is that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. [sanctify=to render or acknowledge, or to be venerable or hallow, to separate from profane things and dedicate to God, to purify~~from most holy thing, a saint]

1 Corinthians 1:2 To God's church at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus and called as saints, with all those in every place who call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord--theirs and ours. [sanctify=to render or acknowledge, or to be venerable or hallow, to separate from profane things and dedicate to God, to purify~~from most holy thing, a saint]

1 Corinthians 1:30 But from Him you are in Christ Jesus, who for us became wisdom from God, as well as righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, [sanctification=consecration, purification, the effect of consecration~~from to render or acknowledge, or to be venerable or hallow, to separate from profane things and dedicate to God, to purify~~from most holy thing, a saint]

1 Corinthians 6:11 Some of you were like this; 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. [sanctify=to render or acknowledge, or to be venerable or hallow, to separate from profane things and dedicate to God, to purify~~from most holy thing, a saint]

1 Corinthians 7:14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the Christian husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy. [sanctify=to render or acknowledge, or to be venerable or hallow, to separate from profane things and dedicate to God, to purify~~from most holy thing, a saint]

2 Corinthians 7:1 Therefore dear friends, since we have such promises, we should wash ourselves clean from every impurity of the flesh and spirit, making our sanctification complete in the fear of God. [sanctification= majesty, holiness, moral purity~~from most holy thing, a saint]

1 Thessalonians 4:3 For this is God's will, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality, [sanctification=consecration, purification, the effect of consecration~~from to render or acknowledge, or to be venerable or hallow, to separate from profane things and dedicate to God, to purify~~from most holy thing, a saint]

1 Thessalonians 4:4 so that each of you knows how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, [sanctification=consecration, purification, the effect of consecration~~from to render or acknowledge, or to be venerable or hallow, to separate from profane things and dedicate to God, to purify~~from most holy thing, a saint]

1 Thessalonians 4:7 For God has not called us to impurity, but to sanctification. [sanctification=consecration, purification, the effect of consecration~~from to render or acknowledge, or to be venerable or hallow, to separate from profane things and dedicate to God, to purify~~from most holy thing, a saint]

1 Thessalonians 5:23 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely. And may your spirit, soul, and body be kept sound and blameless for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. [sanctify=to render or acknowledge, or to be venerable or hallow, to separate from profane things and dedicate to God, to purify~~from most holy thing, a saint]

2 Thessalonians 2:13 But we must always thank God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God has chosen you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through belief in the truth. [sanctify=to render or acknowledge, or to be venerable or hallow, to separate from profane things and dedicate to God, to purify~~from most holy thing, a saint]

1 Timothy 4:5 since it is sanctified by the word of God and by prayer. [sanctify=to render or acknowledge, or to be venerable or hallow, to separate from profane things and dedicate to God, to purify~~from most holy thing, a saint]

Hebrews 2:11 For the One who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one Father. That is why He is not ashamed to call them brothers, [sanctify(both times)=to render or acknowledge, or to be venerable or hallow, to separate from profane things and dedicate to God, to purify~~from most holy thing, a saint]

Hebrews 9:13 For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who are defiled, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, [sanctify=to render or acknowledge, or to be venerable or hallow, to separate from profane things and dedicate to God, to purify~~from most holy thing, a saint]

Hebrews 10:10 By this will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all. [sanctify=to render or acknowledge, or to be venerable or hallow, to separate from profane things and dedicate to God, to purify~~from most holy thing, a saint]

Hebrews 10:14 For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are sanctified. [sanctify=to render or acknowledge, or to be venerable or hallow, to separate from profane things and dedicate to God, to purify~~from most holy thing, a saint]

Hebrews 10:29 How much worse punishment, do you think one will deserve who has trampled on the Son of God, regarded as profane the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and insulted the Spirit of grace? [sanctify=to render or acknowledge, or to be venerable or hallow, to separate from profane things and dedicate to God, to purify~~from most holy thing, a saint]

Hebrews 13:12 Therefore Jesus also suffered outside the gate, so that He might sanctify the people by His own blood. [sanctify=to render or acknowledge, or to be venerable or hallow, to separate from profane things and dedicate to God, to purify~~from most holy thing, a saint]

So all of these NT references use a set of related Greek words, variously translated (in the KJ) as sanctify, hallow, be holy, holy, saints, holy one, holiness, and sanctification, for a total of almost 300 uses.

Which would imply that to fully understand "sanctification," I would need to study all these passages. But I'm not seeking absolutely comprehensive knowledge right now. This message is sort of an introductory lesson.

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