Scripture Folios
Genesis 2:3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished. Chapter Related Exodus 19:14 When Moses came down from the mountain to the people, he consecrated them, and they washed their clothes. Chapter Related Exodus 28:36 You are to make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it as on a seal: HOLY TO THE Lord . Chapter Related Exodus 29:37 For seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will become most holy; whatever touches the altar will be holy. Chapter Related Exodus 31:13 “Tell the Israelites, ‘Surely you must keep My Sabbaths, for this will be a sign between Me and you for the generations to come, so that you may know that I am the Lord who sanctifies you.” Chapter Related Leviticus 20:7–8 Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am the Lord your God. And you shall keep My statutes and practice them. I am the Lord who sanctifies you. Chapter Related 1 Samuel 21:6 So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there but the Bread of the Presence, which had been removed from before the Lord and replaced with hot bread on the day it was taken away. Chapter Related Isaiah 6:3 And they were calling out to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Hosts; all the earth is full of His glory.” Chapter Related Isaiah 6:6–7 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, and in his hand was a glowing coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. And with it he touched my mouth and said: “Now that this has touched your lips, your iniquity is removed and your sin is atoned for.” Chapter Related Isaiah 29:23 For when he sees his children around him, the work of My hands, they will honor My name, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and they will stand in awe of the God of Israel. Chapter Related Ezekiel 22:26 Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them. Chapter Related Ezekiel 36:23 I will show the holiness of My great name, which has been profaned among the nations—the name you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the Lord , declares the Lord God , when I show My holiness in you before their eyes. Chapter Related Ezekiel 36:25–27 I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances. Chapter Related Ezekiel 48:35 “The perimeter of the city will be 18,000 cubits, and from that day on the name of the city will be: THE Lord IS THERE.” Chapter Related Haggai 2:12 “If a man carries consecrated meat in the fold of his garment, and it touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any other food, does that item become holy?’” “No,” replied the priests. Chapter Related Zechariah 14:20–21 On that day, HOLY TO THE Lord will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, and the cooking pots in the house of the Lord will be like the sprinkling bowls before the altar. Indeed, every pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be holy to the Lord of Hosts, and all who sacrifice will come and take some pots and cook in them. And on that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the Lord of Hosts. Chapter Related Matthew 6:9 So then, this is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name. Chapter Related John 17:17–19 Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth. As You sent Me into the world, I have also sent them into the world. For them I sanctify Myself, so that they too may be sanctified by the truth. Chapter Related Acts 10:15 The voice spoke to him a second time: “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.” Chapter Related Romans 6:22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life. Chapter Related 1 Corinthians 6:11 And that is what some of you were. 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. Chapter Related 1 Thessalonians 5:23–24 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. The One who calls you is faithful, and He will do it. Chapter Related 1 Timothy 4:4–5 For every creation of God is good, and nothing that is received with thanksgiving should be rejected, because it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. Chapter Related Hebrews 10:10 And by that will, we have been sanctified through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Chapter Related Hebrews 10:14 because by a single offering He has made perfect for all time those who are being sanctified. Chapter Related 1 Peter 1:15–16 But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do, for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.” Chapter Related Revelation 21:27 But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. Chapter Related Revelation 22:4 They will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads. Chapter Related
To sanctify is for God to claim something for his presence and make the claim visible. The first thing he claims is a day, before anyone has done anything. Then a mountain, an altar, a gold plate engraved HOLY TO THE LORD for the high priest’s forehead, and a people told to consecrate themselves and told in the same breath, “I am the Lord who sanctifies you.” In Ezekiel the command becomes a promise: clean water, a new heart, my Spirit within you. Holiness sometimes spreads by touch, as with the altar and the coal on Isaiah’s lips, and sometimes does not, as Haggai’s priests ruled. Zechariah sees the plate’s inscription spread to the bells on the horses and every cooking pot in Jerusalem. In the New Testament two tenses stand together: we have been sanctified once for all, and we are being sanctified, and in both the verb is passive. Jesus sanctifies himself for us and sends us into the world. The last image echoes the plate: his name on their foreheads.