Spiritual Growth & Sanctification

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

Go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.