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1. They who are united to Christ, effectually called, and regenerated, having a new heart and a new spirit created in them through the virtue of Christ's death and resurrection, are also farther sanctified, really and personally,

Acts 20:32 Romans 6:5-6

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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.

Romans 6:5-6 KJV Read in context

⁵For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: 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.

through the same virtue, by His Word and Spirit dwelling in them;

John 17:17 Ephesians 3:16-19 1 Thessalonians 5:21-23

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

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¹⁶That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; ¹⁷That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, ¹⁸May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; ¹⁹And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

1 Thessalonians 5:21-23 KJV Read in context

²¹Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. ²²Abstain from all appearance of evil. 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.

the dominion of the whole body of sin is destroyed,

Romans 6:14

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¹⁴For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

and the several lusts thereof are more and more weakened and mortified,

Galatians 5:24

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²⁴And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

and they more and more quickened and strengthened in all saving graces,

Colossians 1:11

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¹¹Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;

to the practice of all true holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.

2 Corinthians 7:1 Hebrews 12:14

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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.

Hebrews 12:14 KJV Read in context

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

2. This sanctification is throughout, in the whole man,

1 Thessalonians 5:23

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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.

yet imperfect in this life; there abideth still some remnants of corruption in every part,

Romans 7:18 Romans 7:23

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¹⁸For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

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²³But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

whence ariseth a continual and irreconcilable war; the flesh lusting against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh.

Galatians 5:17 1 Peter 2:11

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¹⁷For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

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¹¹Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

3. In which war, although the remaining corruption for a time may much prevail,

Romans 7:23

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²³But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

yet, through the continual supply of strength from the sanctifying Spirit of Christ, the regenerate part doth overcome;

Romans 6:14

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¹⁴For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

and so the saints grow in grace, perfecting holiness in the fear of God, pressing after an heavenly life, in evangelical obedience to all the commands which Christ, as Head and King, in His Word hath prescribed to them.

Ephesians 4:15-16 2 Corinthians 3:18 2 Corinthians 7:1

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¹⁵But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: ¹⁶From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

2 Corinthians 3:18 KJV Read in context

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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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.