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Sanctification and Growth in Grace

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 17, 1874

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 43, No. 14.

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Sanctification and Growth in Grace

Sanctification

A correspondent writes: “Please tell us the difference, if there is any, between sanctification, and growth in grace.” The word sanctification occurs five times in our English version. In the Greek, however, it occurs ten times, being rendered five times, holiness. These latter texts are, Rom. 6:19, 22; 1 Thess. 4:7; 1 Tim. 2:15; Heb. 12:14; wherein it is set forth as that which is obtained by a holy life. Robinson defines the word, “Sanctification, purity of heart and life, holiness;” the Spirit, 2 Thess. 2:13; 1 Pet. 1:2, being the means by which it is produced, and Christ, 1 Cor. 1:30, being its cause or author.