1 Corinthians 6:11

Such were some of you—but you were washed, sanctified, and justified in Christ and the Spirit. It matters because it celebrates the complete transformation the gospel works in sinners.

Cross-references · 40

• 1 Cor 1:30It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.
• Col 3:5–7Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
• Rom 6:17–19But thanks be to God that, though you once were slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were committed.
• 1 Cor 1:2To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:
• Acts 22:16And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and wash your sins away, calling on His name.’
• 1 Pet 1:2according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by His blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.
• Rom 8:30And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.
• Titus 3:3–7For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
• Heb 10:22let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
• Eph 5:26to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
• Acts 26:18to 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.’
• Eph 5:8For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
• Rom 5:1Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
• Acts 13:39Through Him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law of Moses.
• Rom 8:33Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.
• Eph 4:17–22So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
• Gal 5:22–23But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
• 2 Th 2:13But we should always thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning to be saved by the sanctification of the Spirit and by faith in the truth.
• Gal 3:11Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because, “The righteous will live by faith.”
• Eph 2:1–3And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
• Ps 51:2Wash me clean of my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.
• Gal 2:16know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
• Rev 1:5and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood,
• Ps 51:7Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
• Isa 53:11After the anguish of His soul, He will see the light of life and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will bear their iniquities.
• Rom 3:24and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
• 1 Cor 12:2You know that when you were pagans, you were influenced and led astray to mute idols.
• Gal 3:8The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and foretold the gospel to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.”
• Ezek 36:25I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
• Rev 7:14“Sir,” I answered, “you know.” So he replied, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
• Heb 2:11For both the One who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers.
• Rom 5:9Therefore, since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from wrath through Him!
• Isa 1:16Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!
• Gal 3:24So the law became our guardian to lead us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
• Rom 3:26–30He did this to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and to justify the one who has faith in Jesus.
• Prov 30:12There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.
• Isa 45:25In the LORD all descendants of Israel will be justified and will exult.
• Rom 4:5However, to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness.
• 1 Pet 4:2–3Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God.
• 1 Pet 3:21And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

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