Bible Verses About Sanctification
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for sanctification, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 10,013 votes, led by 2 Timothy 2:21. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Sanctification
2 Timothy 2:21623 votes
If 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.
1 Thessalonians 5:23608 votes
And 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.
John 17:17516 votes
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
2 Thessalonians 2:13424 votes
But 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:
1 Thessalonians 4:3410 votes
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
1 Corinthians 6:11338 votes
And 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.
1 Peter 1:2290 votes
Elect 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.
Galatians 2:20286 votes
I 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.
2 Corinthians 5:17251 votes
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Hebrews 10:14224 votes
For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
Philippians 1:6203 votes
Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
1 Corinthians 1:30195 votes
But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
Romans 6:6193 votes
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
Hebrews 13:12190 votes
Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
Hebrews 12:14182 votes
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
Hebrews 10:10167 votes
By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
1 Corinthians 1:2152 votes
Unto 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 theirs and ours:
2 Corinthians 7:1147 votes
Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Romans 6:1-23142 votes
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
Acts 26:18139 votes
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 by faith that is in me.
Romans 15:16138 votes
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 by the Holy Ghost.
2 Peter 1:2-4138 votes
Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
Ephesians 5:26132 votes
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
Hebrews 2:11123 votes
For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
1 John 1:9119 votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
What does the Bible say about sanctification?
Readers most often cite 2 Timothy 2:21 on the subject of sanctification. Across 10,013 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Thessalonians 5:23, John 17:17, 2 Thessalonians 2:13. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.