To set someone or something apart as special and pure for God's use.
Key References
Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your entire spirit, soul, and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that their bodies are clean,
And by that will, we have been sanctified through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Let the unrighteous continue to be unrighteous, and the vile continue to be vile; let the righteous continue to practice righteousness, and the holy continue to be holy.”
All Scripture References (12)
Matthew (2)
You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes it sacred?
You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes it sacred?
Acts (2)
And now I commit you to God and to the word of His grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.
to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’
1 Thessalonians (1)
Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your entire spirit, soul, and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Hebrews (6)
For both the One who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers.
For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that their bodies are clean,
And by that will, we have been sanctified through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
because by a single offering He has made perfect for all time those who are being sanctified.
How much more severely do you think one deserves to be punished who has trampled on the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and insulted the Spirit of grace?
And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate, to sanctify the people by His own blood.
Revelation (1)
Let the unrighteous continue to be unrighteous, and the vile continue to be vile; let the righteous continue to practice righteousness, and the holy continue to be holy.”