Perfectionism Rejected
Remaining Corruption
Sanctification · 6 verses
Indwelling sin persists in believers throughout their earthly pilgrimage, continually warring against the Spirit and hindering complete obedience to God's holy law. This remaining corruption, though progressively weakened through sanctification, never achieves complete eradication in this life, ensuring that the Christian's holiest actions remain tainted by imperfection and requiring perpetual cleansing through Christ's mediatorial blood.
Scripture References
“For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.”
“I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.”
“For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.”
“Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,”
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
“Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.”