1 Thessalonians 5:23

Paul prays that the God of peace would wholly sanctify the Thessalonians and keep them blameless until Christ's return.

Cross-references · 33

• Jude 1:24Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy—
• Heb 4:12For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
• 1 Cor 1:8–9He will sustain you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• 1 Th 3:13so that He may establish your hearts in blamelessness and holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints. Amen.
• 1 Pet 5:10And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore you, secure you, strengthen you, and establish you.
• Eph 5:26–27to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
• Phil 1:6being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
• Phil 1:10so that you may be able to test and prove what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,
• Phil 2:15–16so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world
• 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.
• Lev 20:8And you shall keep My statutes and practice them. I am the LORD who sanctifies you.
• 2 Pet 3:14Therefore, beloved, as you anticipate these things, make every effort to be found at peace—spotless and blameless in His sight.
• Col 1:22But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in His presence—
• 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 15:13Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
• 1 Cor 14:33For God is not a God of disorder, but of peace—as in all the churches of the saints.
• Heb 13:20Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,
• Rom 15:5Now may the God who gives endurance and encouragement grant you harmony with one another in Christ Jesus,
• Luke 1:46Then Mary said: “My soul magnifies the Lord,
• Acts 20:32And now I commit you to God and to the word of His grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.
• 2 Th 3:16Now may the Lord of peace Himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with all of you.
• Phil 4:9Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me, put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.
• 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.’
• 2 Cor 5:19that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
• Lev 20:26You are to be holy to Me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be My own.
• Rom 16:20The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
• John 17:19For them I sanctify Myself, so that they too may be sanctified by the truth.
• Rom 15:33The God of peace be with all of you. Amen.
• 1 Th 4:3For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;
• 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:
• Jude 1:1Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James, To those who are called, loved by God the Father, and kept in Jesus Christ:
• 1 Th 2:19After all, who is our hope, our joy, our crown of boasting, if it is not you yourselves in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming?
• Ezek 37:28Then the nations will know that I the LORD sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary is among them forever.’”

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