Bible Verses About Spiritual Growth & Sanctification

This is God’s will for you: that you be holy. Keep away from sexual immorality.

Instead, keep growing in the grace that comes from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and in knowing him. May glory be his, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

But all of us, our faces uncovered, look upon the Lord’s glory as in a mirror, and we are being changed into the same image we see, from glory to ever greater glory. That is how the Lord, who is the Spirit, works.

So let us leave behind the first message about Christ and be carried forward to maturity. Let us not be laying a foundation all over again: turning away from dead works and putting faith in God,

Go, then, and make disciples of all the nations: baptize them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Do not let this present age press you into its mold, but be changed through and through as your mind is made new. Then you will be able to test and recognize the will of God: what is good and pleasing and perfect.

and I run straight for the goal to win the prize promised by God’s upward call in Christ Jesus.

At the time it is given, no discipline seems a matter for joy; it seems a matter for sorrow. But afterward it pays back those who have been trained by it with a harvest of peace: righteousness.

Milk was what I gave you to drink, not solid food, since you could not yet take it. In fact, even now you still cannot take it,

and have put on the new self, which is being made new, growing in knowledge, in the image of its Creator.

Those God knew beforehand he also marked out beforehand to be shaped into the image of his Son, so that the Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.

So then, my beloved, you have always obeyed. Keep at it now, not only as if I were there with you, but much more because I am away: with fear and trembling, keep working out your own salvation.