SANCTIFICATION

Sanctify, Sanctified – hagiazo to set apart, to separate the setting a part of a believer for God; the separation of the believer from the world in his behavior by the Father through the Word; a state in which God, in grace, calls sinful men, and in which they begin their walk as Christians; to make holy, that is purify or consecrate; from root hagios sacred, pure, blameless, holy, saint; from root hagnos clean, innocent, perfect, chaste, clean, pure

Sanctification – hagiasmos separation, a setting apart, separation to God, the course of life befitting those so separated; Sanctification is that relationship with God into which men enter by faith in Christ, and to which their sole title is the death of Christ; separation of the believer from evil things and ways; sanctification is an individual possession, built up as a result of obedience to the Word of God, following the example of Christ and in the power of the Holy Spirit; The Holy Spirit is the Agent in sanctification; purification, that is the state of purity, holiness, sanctification; from root hagiazo to make holy, that is purify or consecrate, be holy, sanctify; from root hagios sacred, pure, blameless, consecrated, holy, saint; from root hagnos clean, innocent, modest, perfect, chaste, pure.

Scripture:

John 10:36 “Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified (hagiazo), and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?”

John 17:17 “Sanctify (hagiazo) them through thy truth: thy word is truth.”

John 17:19 “And for their sakes I sanctify (hagiazo) myself, that they also might be sanctified (hagiazo) through the truth.”

Acts 20:32 “And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified (hagiazo).”

Acts 26:18 (Jesus to Saul) “To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified (hagiazo) by faith that is in me (Jesus).”

Romans 15:16 “That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified (hagiazo) by the Holy Spirit.”

I Corinthians 1:2 “Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified (hagiazo) in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:”

I Corinthians 1:30-31 “But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification (hagiasmos) and redemption: that, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.”

I Corinthians 6:11 “And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified (hagiazo), but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the spirit of our God.”

I Corinthians 7:14 “For the unbelieving husband is sanctified (hagiazo) by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified (hagiazo) by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.”

Ephesians 5:26 “That he might sanctify (hagiazo) and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word.”

I Thessalonians 4:3-4 “For this is the will of God, even your sanctification (hagiasmos), that ye should abstain from fornication: that every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification (hagiasmos) and honor;”

I Thessalonians 5:23 “And the very God of peace sanctify (hagiazo) you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

II Thessalonians 2:13 “But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification (hagiasmos) of the Spirit and belief of the truth:”

I Timothy 4:5 “For it is sanctified (hagiazo) by the word of God and prayer.”

II Timothy 2:21 “If a man therefore purge himself from these; he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified (hagiazo), and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.”

Hebrews 2:11 “For both he that sanctifieth (hagiazo) and they who are sanctified (hagiazo) are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren.”

Hebrews 9:13 “For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth (hagiazo) to the purifying of the flesh: how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?”

Hebrews 10:10 “By the which will we are sanctified (hagiazo) through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.” “

Hebrews 10:14 “For by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified.”

Hebrews 10:29 “Of how much sore punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden underfoot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified (haziazo), an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?”

I Peter 1:2 “Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification (hagiasmos) of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.”

I Peter 3:15 “But sanctify (hagiazo) the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:”

Jude 1 “Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified (hagiazo) by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:”