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Sanctification

Becoming what you already are — the lifelong work of being shaped into the likeness of Christ

Sanctification is the ongoing process by which a believer is made holy and conformed to Christ. Paul urges the Thessalonians toward holiness (1 Thessalonians 4) and in Romans 6 ties it to dying and rising with Christ. Traditions differ on how it relates to justification and on whether perfection can be reached in this life: some, such as the Wesleyan tradition, teach a form of Christian perfection, while others deny it is attainable here.

How it traveled

  1. Romans
    Corinth · 67
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  2. Hebrews
    Rome · 67
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  3. Ephesians
    Rome · 67
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  4. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  5. Homilies on First Corinthians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  6. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Paul's Epistle to the Romans
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  7. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  8. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle to the Hebrews
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  9. The Commentary and Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Galatians and Ephesians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  10. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Timothy, Titus, and Philemon
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  11. A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  12. Homilies on Second Corinthians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  13. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Gospel of St. John
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  14. Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  15. A Treatise on the Spirit and the Letter
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  16. City of God
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  17. Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  18. A Treatise Concerning Man’s Perfection in Righteousness
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  19. A Treatise on the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins, and on the Baptism of Infants
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  20. Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  21. The Confessions
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  22. A Treatise Against Two Letters of the Pelagians
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  23. Letters of St. Augustin
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  24. A Treatise on Nature and Grace
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  25. The Book of Pastoral Rule, and Selected Epistles, of Gregory the Great
    Rome · 604
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  26. Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90)
    Paris · 1274
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  27. Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59)
    Paris · 1274
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  28. Internal Consolation
    Zwolle · 1471
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  29. Commentary on Galatians
    Wittenberg · 1546
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  30. Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from It
    Geneva · 1564
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  31. Book Second. of the Knowledge of God the Redeemer, in Christ, as First Manifested to the Fathers, Under the Law, and Thereafter to Us Under the Gospel
    Geneva · 1564
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  32. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, in Three Parts
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  33. Seventeen Occasional Sermons
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  34. Thoughts on the Revival of Religion in New England
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  35. XIV Five discourses on the soul's eternal salvation
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  36. Inquiry Concerning Qualification for Communion
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  37. Five Sermons. On Different Occasions
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  38. Misrepresentations Corrected and Truth Vindicated, in Reply to the Rev. Solomon Williams
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  39. The great christian doctrine of original sin defended
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  40. Fifteen Sermons. On Various Subjects
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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