Definitive Sanctification
Death to Sin
Sanctification · 6 verses
In union with Christ, the believer has died to sin's dominion and claim, having been crucified with Christ in His atoning death. This definitive break from sin's tyrannical reign does not eliminate the presence of indwelling corruption but decisively severs sin's legal authority and enslaving power over those who are in Christ Jesus.
Scripture References
“God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?”
“Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.”
“Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”
“For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.”
“Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.”