Romans 12:1, 2 

Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.

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Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

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1 Thessalonians 5:23 

May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Hebrews 13:12 

And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood.

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The Scriptures teach a life of "holiness without which no man shall see the Lord."

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Hebrews 12:14 

Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.

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By the power of the Holy Spirit we are able to obey the command: "Be ye holy, for I am holy."

 

1 Peter 1:15, 16 

But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do;

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for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”

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Sanctification is realized in the believer by recognizing his identification with Christ in His death and resurrection, and by the faith reckoning daily upon the fact of that union, and by offering every faculty continually to the dominion of the Holy Spirit.

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Romans 6:1-11

What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

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For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with,[a] that we should no longer be slaves to sin— because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.

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Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

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Romans 6:13 

Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness.

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Romans 8:1, 2 

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 

 

because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.

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Romans 8:13

For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live. 

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Galatians 2:20

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 

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Philippians 2:12, 13

Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, 

 

for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose. 

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1 Peter 1:5 

who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.

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