100 Bible Verses about Sanctification (KJV)

Here are 100 Bible verses about sanctification, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

2 Timothy 2:21 KJV

²¹If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.

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1 Thessalonians 5:23 KJV

²³And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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John 17:17 KJV

¹⁷Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

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2 Thessalonians 2:13 KJV

¹³But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

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1 Thessalonians 4:3 KJV

³For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

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1 Corinthians 6:11 KJV

¹¹And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

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1 Peter 1:2 KJV

²Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.

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Galatians 2:20 KJV

²⁰I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

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2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV

¹⁷Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

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Hebrews 10:14 KJV

¹⁴For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

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Philippians 1:6 KJV

⁶Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

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1 Corinthians 1:30 KJV

³⁰But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

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Romans 6:6 KJV

⁶Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

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Hebrews 13:12 KJV

¹²Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.

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Hebrews 12:14 KJV

¹⁴Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

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Hebrews 10:10 KJV

¹⁰By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

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1 Corinthians 1:2 KJV

²Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both their’s and our’s:

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2 Corinthians 7:1 KJV

¹Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

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Romans 6:1-23 KJV

¹What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? ²God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? ³Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? ⁴Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory …

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Romans 15:16 KJV

¹⁶That 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 by the Holy Ghost.

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2 Peter 1:2-4 KJV

²Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, ³According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: ⁴Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having …

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Acts 26:18 KJV

¹⁸To 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 by faith that is in me.

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Ephesians 5:26 KJV

²⁶That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

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Hebrews 2:11 KJV

¹¹For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

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1 John 1:9 KJV

⁹If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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Philippians 2:13 KJV

¹³For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

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Exodus 31:13 KJV

¹³Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you.

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John 17:19 KJV

¹⁹And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

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Romans 6:22 KJV

²²But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

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1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 KJV

³For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: ⁴That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; ⁵Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

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Ephesians 2:10 KJV

¹⁰For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

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Colossians 3:1 KJV

¹If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

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Colossians 3:5 KJV

⁵Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

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Hebrews 9:14 KJV

¹⁴How 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?

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2 Peter 3:18 KJV

¹⁸But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.

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Hebrews 12:10 KJV

¹⁰For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

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1 Peter 1:15-16 KJV

¹⁵But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; ¹⁶Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

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Galatians 5:16 KJV

¹⁶This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

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John 15:1-4 KJV

¹I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. ²Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. ³Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. ⁴Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; …

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Philippians 2:12-13 KJV

¹²Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. ¹³For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

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1 John 3:9 KJV

⁹Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

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1 John 1:8 KJV

⁸If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

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1 Peter 2:9 KJV

⁹But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;

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Romans 12:1 KJV

¹I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

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Leviticus 20:8 KJV

⁸And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the Lord which sanctify you.

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Romans 6:2 KJV

²God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

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Jude 1:24 KJV

²⁴Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,

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2 Peter 1:3-11 KJV

³According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: ⁴Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. ⁵And beside this, giving all diligence, …

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Romans 8:1-39 KJV

¹There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. ²For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. ³For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: …

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Romans 6:11 KJV

¹¹Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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1 Corinthians 6:9 KJV

⁹Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

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Ephesians 4:24 KJV

²⁴And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

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Leviticus 21:8 KJV

⁸Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the Lord, which sanctify you, am holy.

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Acts 20:32 KJV

³²And 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.

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Ephesians 1:3 KJV

³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

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2 Corinthians 3:18 KJV

¹⁸But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

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1 John 3:3 KJV

³And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

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1 Peter 2:24 KJV

²⁴Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

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1 John 3:2 KJV

²Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

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2 Corinthians 1:22 KJV

²²Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

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Romans 12:1-2 KJV

¹I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. ²And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

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Romans 6:19 KJV

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Ephesians 1:4 KJV

⁴According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

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John 3:6 KJV

⁶That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

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Revelation 7:14 KJV

¹⁴And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

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Colossians 2:11 KJV

¹¹In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

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Ephesians 4:13 KJV

¹³Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

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Ephesians 1:13 KJV

¹³In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

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Galatians 5:19-21 KJV

¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, ²⁰Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, ²¹Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of …

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Exodus 13:2 KJV

²Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.

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Romans 6:12 KJV

¹²Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

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1 Thessalonians 4:3-4 KJV

³For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: ⁴That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

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Ephesians 5:25-27 KJV

²⁵Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; ²⁶That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, ²⁷That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

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2 Corinthians 12:21 KJV

²¹And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.

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1 John 1:3 KJV

³That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

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Ephesians 4:22-24 KJV

²²That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; ²³And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; ²⁴And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

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Romans 6:19-22 KJV

¹⁹I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. ²⁰For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. ²¹What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those …

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John 3:16-17 KJV

¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. ¹⁷For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

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Hebrews 13:21 KJV

²¹Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

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Romans 5:1 KJV

¹Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

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Leviticus 11:44 KJV

⁴⁴For I am the Lord your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

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Hebrews 12:1 KJV

¹Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

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1 Corinthians 12:13 KJV

¹³For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

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Romans 8:1 KJV

¹There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

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Romans 8:28-30 KJV

²⁸And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. ²⁹For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. ³⁰Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he …

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Matthew 3:11 KJV

¹¹I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance. but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:

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Hebrews 6:4-6 KJV

⁴For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, ⁵And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, ⁶If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

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1 Thessalonians 4:4 KJV

⁴That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

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Exodus 33:16 KJV

¹⁶For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.

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Ephesians 3:19 KJV

¹⁹And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

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Ezekiel 37:28 KJV

²⁸And the heathen shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.

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Jeremiah 1:5 KJV

⁵Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

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Exodus 30:29 KJV

²⁹And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.

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Hebrews 3:12 KJV

¹²Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

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Romans 8:7 KJV

⁷Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

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2 Corinthians 1:21 KJV

²¹Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God;

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Romans 6:1 KJV

¹What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

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Joel 1:14 KJV

¹⁴Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the Lord your God, and cry unto the Lord,

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Leviticus 20:7-8 KJV

⁷Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the Lord your God. ⁸And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the Lord which sanctify you.

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Revelation 1:1 KJV

¹The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

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