Growing in Grace
¨ Matthew 5:29-30—Process of sanctification: Mortification, putting off the old lifestyle.
¨ Matthew 5:43-48—Goal of sanctification: Love maturely like the Father.
¨ Matthew 6:24—Goal of sanctification: Love the Father wholeheartedly.
¨ Matthew 6:33; Luke 12:31—Goal of sanctification: Seek first Father's kingdom.
¨ Matthew 7:24-27; Luke 6:46-49—Process of sanctification: Put the Word wisely into practice.
¨ Matthew 9:35-38—Goal of sanctification: Love the lost.
¨ Matthew 10:37-39; Luke 14:26—Goal of sanctification: Love God supremely.
¨ Matthew 10:39; 16:25—Nature of sanctification: Lose your life to find it.
¨ Matthew 12:33-35; Luke 6:43-45—Place of sanctification: Draw out the fruit stored up in your good heart.
¨ Matthew 12:50; Mark 3:35—Process of sanctification: Do the will of the Father.
¨ Matthew 13:23—Description of sanctification: Your good heart yields a hundred-fold crop.
¨ Matthew 15:11, 17-20; Mark 7:15-23—Place of sanctification: Your inner life, internal rather than externals.
¨ Matthew 22:34-40; Mark 12:28-34—Goal of sanctification: Love God and your neighbor.
¨ Mathew 23:11-12—Goal of sanctification: Becoming a humble servant of God and others.
¨ Matthew 23:25-28; Luke 11:39-53—Place of sanctification: Inside the cup, your inner life.
¨ Matthew 28:18-20—Command of sanctification: Make disciples who obey Christ's teaching.
¨ Mark 1:35-36; Luke 4:42; 5:16; 6:12-13—Practice of sanctification: Solitary prayer.
¨ Luke 6:27-36—Goal of sanctification: Love like the Father.
¨ Luke 6:40—Goal of sanctification: Be like Jesus.
¨ Luke 8:21—Picture of sanctification: Putting God's Word into practice.
¨ Luke 9:48; 14:11—Goal of sanctification: Becoming like a humble, trusting child.
¨ Luke 10:27-37—Goal of sanctification: Love your neighbor.
¨ Luke 14:26-27—Picture of sanctification: Take up your cross.
¨ John 5:30—Goal of sanctification: Please the Father.
¨ John 8:11—Picture of sanctification: Leaving your life of sin.
¨ John 8:32—Means of sanctification: The truth (Word) shall set you free.
¨ John 13:12-17—Goal of sanctification: Follow the loving servant example of Jesus.
¨ John 14:15-21—Goal of sanctification: Loving obedience.
¨ John 14:15-31—Power for sanctification: Holy Spirit, Comforter.
¨ John 15:1-10—Power of sanctification: Abiding in Christ and his Word.
¨ John 15:12-13—Goal of sanctification: Sacrificial, Christlike love.
¨ John 15:17—Goal of sanctification: Love one another.
¨ John 15:26-16:16—Power for sanctification: Holy Spirit, Guide.
¨ John 17:11, 21-23—Goal of sanctification: Oneness.
¨ John 17:17—Means of sanctification: The Word/truth.
¨ Acts 2:42-47—Pictures of sanctification: Worship, fellowship, discipleship, stewardship, and ambassadorship.
¨ Acts 20:32—Means of sanctification: God and the Word of his grace.
¨ Romans 1:5—Practice of sanctification: Obedience that comes from faith.
¨ Romans 1:11-12—Instrument of sanctification: Mutually encouraging one another to grow.
¨ Romans 5:3-5—Means of sanctification: Creative suffering.
¨ Romans 6:11—Responsibility in sanctification: Rationally count/reckon yourself dead to sin and alive to God.
¨ Romans 6:12-13—Responsibility in sanctification: Volitionally yield yourself to God and not to sin.
¨ Romans 7:6—Responsibility in sanctification: Serve God in the new way of the Spirit/new covenant.
¨ Romans 8:5—Responsibility in sanctification: Rationally think according to the mindset of the Spirit/spirit.
¨ Romans 8:12-13—Responsibility in sanctification: Volitionally mortify/put off/put to death the fleshly lifestyle.
¨ Romans 8:14—Responsibility in sanctification: Be led by the Spirit.
¨ Romans 12:1-2—Responsibility in sanctification: Relationally embrace grace and rationally renew your mind.
¨ Romans 13:8-10—Goal of sanctification: Love one another as the summation of God's commandments.
¨ Romans 13:12-14—Responsibility in sanctification: Volitionally put off the old way and put on/clothe yourself with the new way.
¨ 1 Corinthians 1:2—Positional sanctification: Sanctified and called to be holy.
¨ 1 Corinthians 1:8—Responsibility in sanctification: Keep yourself strong to the end.
¨ 1 Corinthians 1:30—Positional sanctification: Christ is your holiness and sanctification.
¨ 1 Corinthians 3:1-3—Failure in sanctification: Remaining an infant in Christ, not growing up in Christ.
¨ 1 Corinthians 6:11—Positional sanctification: Washed and sanctified in Christ.
¨ 1 Corinthians 9:24-27—Responsibility in sanctification: Strict spiritual training.
¨ 1 Corinthians 10:1-12—Responsibility in sanctification: Remembering and applying biblical examples.
¨ 1 Corinthians 10:13—Promise in sanctification: No temptation can overtake you.
¨ 1 Corinthians 13:1-13—Goal of sanctification: Christlike love.
¨ 2 Corinthians 1:9—The Power for sanctification: The God who raises the dead.
¨ 2 Corinthians 2:14-16—Promise in sanctification: Christ has and will lead you to victory.
¨ 2 Corinthians 3:6—Promise in sanctification: You are a competent minister of new covenant sanctification.
¨ 2 Corinthians 3:16-18—Goal, process, and means of sanctification: By relationally and rationally reflecting on the Lord's glory, you are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory.
¨ 2 Corinthians 4:6-7—Power for sanctification: The all-surpassing power that transforms us into the image and glory of God in the face of Christ is from God and not from us.
¨ 2 Corinthians 4:16-18—Goal, process, and means of sanctification: By relationally and rationally fixing your soul and mind on God and eternal values, inwardly you are being renewed day by day.
¨ 2 Corinthians 5:9—Goal of sanctification: Please God.
¨ 2 Corinthians 5:14—Motivation for sanctification: Love of Christ.
¨ 2 Corinthians 10:3-7—Responsibility in sanctification: Demolish mental strongholds.
¨ 2 Corinthians 12:7-10—Promise in and power for sanctification: Christ's grace is sufficient in your weakness, Christ's power rests on you.
¨ Galatians 2:20-21—Power for sanctification: Christ who works in and loves you.
¨ Galatians 3:1-5—Power for and responsibility in sanctification: Faith in God.
¨ Galatians 3:26-4:11—Means of sanctification: Activated faith.
¨ Galatians 4:19—Picture and process of sanctification: Labor pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you.
¨ Galatians 5:1-6—Means of sanctification: Faith active in love.
¨ Galatians 5:14—Goal of sanctification: Love your neighbor as the summation of the Law.
¨ Galatians 5:15-22—Contrasts in sanctification: The works of the flesh versus the fruit of the Spirit.
¨ Galatians 5:16—Power for and responsibility in sanctification: Walk by the Spirit.
¨ Galatians 5:25-26—Responsibility in sanctification: Crucify the old way, live by the Spirit, walk in step with the Spirit.
¨ Ephesians 1:15-23—Power for sanctification: Christ's resurrection power.
¨ Ephesians 2:10—Promise for sanctification: You are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works.
¨ Ephesians 3:14-21—Goal of sanctification: Filled to all the fullness of Christ who is the fullness of God.
¨ Ephesians 4:1—Command in sanctification: Live a life worthy of your calling.
¨ Ephesians 4:1-16—Means of sanctification: The mutual ministry of the Body of Christ.
¨ Ephesians 4:17-32—Responsibility in sanctification: Put off the old way, be renewed in the spirit of your mind, put on the new way.
¨ Ephesians 4:27—Responsibility in sanctification: Do not give the Devil a foothold.
¨ Ephesians 5:1—Goal of sanctification: Live a life of love as an imitator of God.
¨ Ephesians 5:15-20—Power for and responsibility in sanctification: Be filled with the Spirit, minister to one another, worship God.
¨ Ephesians 5:25-27—Promise in sanctification: Jesus will present his bride holy.
¨ Ephesians 6:10-18—Responsibility in sanctification: Put on the full armor of God.
¨ Philippians 1:6—Promise in sanctification: Christ will complete the good work he has begun in you.
¨ Philippians 1:9-11—Goal of sanctification: Love abounding more and more in depth of insight.
¨ Philippians 1:27—Command in sanctification: Live a life worthy of Christ.
¨ Philippians 2:12-13—Responsibility in sanctification: Work out your salvation with fear and trembling, as God is at work in you.
¨ Philippians 3:7-16—Power for sanctification: Christ's resurrection power.
¨ Philippians 3:10—Goal of sanctification: Be conformed to Christ in his death.
¨ Colossians 1:10—Command in sanctification: Live a life worthy of the Lord.
¨ Colossians 1:15-20—Goal of sanctification: Re-creation in the image of Christ who is the image of God.
¨ Colossians 1:28—Goal of sanctification: To present everyone mature in Christ.
¨ Colossians 2:6-7—Responsibility in sanctification: Just as you received Christ, continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith.
¨ Colossians 2:9-10—Goal of sanctification: Fullness in Christ who is the fullness of God.
¨ Colossians 2:19—Responsibility in sanctification: Maintain connection with the Head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.
¨ Colossians 3:1-4—Responsibility in sanctification: Reckon on your co-resurrection with Christ.
¨ Colossians 3:1-4—Responsibility in sanctification: Set your heart (affections) and mind (mindsets) on things above.
¨ Colossians 3:5-9—Responsibility in sanctification: Co-crucified with Christ, put to death the immoral aspects of your old, dead life.
¨ Colossians 3:10-11—Responsibility in and process of sanctification: Put on the new self which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
¨ Colossians 3:12-14—Goal of sanctification: Love which is supreme over and binds together all virtues.
¨ 1 Thessalonians 2:12—Command in sanctification: Live worthy of God who calls you.
¨ 1 Thessalonians 2:13—Promise in and power for sanctification: The Word of God is at work in you.
¨ 1 Thessalonians 3:12-13—Goal of and responsibility in sanctification: The Lord makes your love increase and overflow for each other and strengthens your heart so that you will be blameless and holy in his presence.
¨ 1 Thessalonians 4:3—Command in sanctification: The will of God is your sanctification.
¨ 1 Thessalonians 5:4-11—Responsibility in sanctification: Live as a child of the light.
¨ 1 Thessalonians 5:23—Promise in sanctification: God sanctifies you through and through.
¨ 2 Thessalonians 1:3—Picture of sanctification: Faith growing more and more and love for one another increasing.
¨ 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12—Promise for and purpose of sanctification: God's power fulfills every good purpose so that Jesus is glorified in you.
¨ 2 Thessalonians 2:14—Goal of sanctification: That you might share in the glory of the Lord.
¨ 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17—Promise in sanctification: God encourages your heart and strengthens you in every good work.
¨ 1 Timothy 4:7-8—Responsibility in sanctification: Train yourself to be godly.
¨ 1 Timothy 4:15-16—Responsibility in sanctification: Be diligent, give yourself wholly to spiritual growth so that everyone may see your progress, watch your life and doctrine closely.
¨ 1 Timothy 6:11—Responsibility in sanctification: Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, and gentleness.
¨ 1 Timothy 6:12—Responsibility in sanctification: Fight the good fight of faith.
¨ 2 Timothy 1:6-7—Responsibility in sanctification: Fan into flame/stir up the gift of God within you.
¨ 2 Timothy 2:1—Responsibility in sanctification: Cooperate with the grace of God, be strong in God's grace.
¨ 2 Timothy 2:15—Responsibility in sanctification: Do your best to present yourself an approved workman of Christ.
¨ 2 Timothy 2:22—Responsibility in sanctification: Flee the evil desires of youth.
¨ 2 Timothy 3:16-17—Responsibility in sanctification: Train yourself in righteousness.
¨ 2 Timothy 4:7—Portrait of sanctification: Fighting the good fight, keeping the faith, finishing the course/race.
¨ Titus 2:10—Responsibility in sanctification: Make the teachings of God attractive by your lifestyle.
¨ Titus 2:11-15—Power and responsibility in sanctification: The grace of God teaches you to say, "No!" to sin and, "Yes!" to righteousness.
¨ Hebrews 1:1-3—Goal of sanctification: You are to grow into the image of Jesus, who is the exact image of God.
¨ Hebrews 3:12-13—Responsibility in sanctification: Encourage one another daily lest anyone be hardened by sin's deceitfulness.
¨ Hebrews 4:10-11—Responsibility in sanctification: Make every effort to enter God's rest.
¨ Hebrews 5:11-13—Failure in sanctification: Remaining babes in Christ.
¨ Hebrews 5:12-14—Responsibility in and picture and goal of sanctification: Become mature by constantly using your new capacities, training yourself to distinguish good from evil.
¨ Hebrews 6:1-3—Command in sanctification: Leave the elementary school ABCs of growth and move on to the graduate school of maturity in Christ.
¨ Hebrews 6:9-10—Promise for sanctification: God will not forget your work and love.
¨ Hebrews 6:11-12—Responsibility in sanctification: Show diligence to the very end.
¨ Hebrews 10:24-25—Responsibility in sanctification: Encourage one another daily, stir one another toward love and good deeds.
¨ Hebrews 12:1—Responsibility in sanctification: Throw off all hindrances and the sin that so easily besets you.
¨ Hebrews 12:2—Responsibility in sanctification: Fix your eyes on Jesus, the author and finisher of your faith.
¨ Hebrews 12:4—Responsibility in sanctification: Struggle against sin.
¨ Hebrews 12:7-11—Responsibility in sanctification: Endure hardship, accept discipline as it produces a harvest of righteousness for those trained by it.
¨ Hebrews 13:9—Promise in sanctification: God strengthens your heart by grace.
¨ Hebrews 13:20-21—Promise for sanctification: God equips you with everything good for doing his will, and works in you what is pleasing to him through Jesus Christ.
¨ James 1:3-4—Means of sanctification: The testing of your faith develops Christlike character and godly virtues.
¨ James 1:22-25—Responsibility in sanctification: Listen to and do the Word of God.
¨ James 2:8—Goal of sanctification: Keep the royal law found in Scripture, "Love your neighbor as yourself."
¨ James 4:7—Responsibility in sanctification: Submit to God.
¨ James 4:7—Responsibility in sanctification: Resist the Devil.
¨ James 4:8—Responsibility in sanctification: Draw near to God.
¨ James 5:16—Responsibility in sanctification: Confess your sins one to another.
¨ 1 Peter 1:3-8—Means of sanctification: Growth through suffering and trials that produce refined faith and genuine Christlike character.
¨ 1 Peter 1:13-14—Responsibility in sanctification: Relationally set your hope fully on the grace of Jesus and do not conform to the evil affections of your old life, rationally prepared your minds, volitionally be an obedient child, emotionally be self-controlled.
¨ 1 Peter 1:15-16—Command in sanctification: Be ye holy as God is holy.
¨ 1 Peter 1:21-22—Responsibility in sanctification: Purify yourself by obeying the truth.
¨ 1 Peter 1:22—Goal of sanctification: Love one another deeply.
¨ 1 Peter 2:2-3—Goal and picture of sanctification: Like a newborn baby, crave pure spiritual milk so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.
¨ 1 Peter 4:8—Goal of sanctification: Above all, love each other deeply.
¨ 1 Peter 5:8-9—Responsibility in sanctification: Resist the Devil.
¨ 2 Peter 1:3-4—Promise in sanctification: You are a partaker of the divine nature.
¨ 2 Peter 1:5-9—Responsibility in sanctification: Make every effort to add to your faith Christlike character traits.
¨ 2 Peter 3:1—Responsibility in sanctification: Stimulate your mind to wholesome thinking.
¨ 2 Peter 3:18—Responsibility in sanctification: Grow in the grace and knowledge of your Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
¨ 1 John 1:9—Responsibility in sanctification: Confess your sin.
¨ 1 John 3:2—Goal of sanctification: Be like Jesus.
¨ 1 John 3:3—Responsibility in sanctification: Purify yourself as Christ is pure.
¨ 1 John 3:11-23—Goal of sanctification: Love which is Christ's preeminent command.
¨ 1 John 4:4—Promise in sanctification: You have overcome the world because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.
¨ 1 John 4:7-21—Goal of sanctification: Love which fulfills Christ's commands.
¨ 1 John 5:1-5—Promise in sanctification: Faith is your victory by which you overcome the world.
¨ 2 John 4—Goal of sanctification: Walk in truth.
¨ 2 John 6—Goal of sanctification: Walk in love.
¨ 3 John 3-4—Goal of sanctification: Walk in truth.
¨ Jude 20—Responsibility in sanctification: Build yourself up in your most holy faith.
¨ Jude 21—Responsibility in sanctification: Keep yourself in God's love.
¨ Jude 24—Promise in sanctification: God is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy.
¨ Revelation 2:4-6—Responsibility in sanctification: Repent and return to your first love.
¨ Revelation 2:16—Responsibility in sanctification: Repent.
¨ Revelation 3:19-22—Responsibility in sanctification: Repent and open your heart to fellowship with Jesus.
Used by permission from Dr. Robert W. Kellemen, RPM Ministries, www.rpmministries.org.
