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1 Thessalonians 5:23
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1 Thessalonians 5:23
23And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
23And the very God of peace sanctifie you wholly: and I pray God your whole spirit, and soule, and body be preserued blamelesse vnto the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ.
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DEFINED WORDS
1 Thessalonians 5:23
Truly or in a high degree; as an adjective, true or real.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Freedom from war, strife, disturbance, or inward trouble; quietness, reconciliation, safety, or well-being, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Entire, complete, or undivided; also sound or restored to health, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A physical body; a corpse; or an organized whole composed of members, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Kept safe from harm, loss, corruption, or destruction.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Without fault or a valid ground for censure in the matter described.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The act of approaching or arriving.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
A title of authority applied here to God, Christ, or a male master or ruler, according to the verse.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
The Anointed One.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
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Open the full verse study24Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
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Open the full verse study8Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Open the full verse study12For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
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Open the full verse study13To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
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Open the full verse study10But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
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Open the full verse study26That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
27That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
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Open the full verse study6Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
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Open the full verse study10That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;
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Open the full verse study15That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
16Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
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Open the full verse study2Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
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Open the full verse study8And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the Lord which sanctify you.
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Open the full verse study14Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
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Open the full verse study22In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
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Open the full verse study11For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
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Open the full verse study13Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
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Open the full verse study33For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
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Open the full verse study20Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
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Open the full verse study16Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all.
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Open the full verse study46And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord,
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Open the full verse study5Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
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Open the full verse study19To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
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Open the full verse study32And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
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Open the full verse study18To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
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Open the full verse study19And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
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Open the full verse study26And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the Lord am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.
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Open the full verse study9Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
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Open the full verse study20And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
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Open the full verse study2Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:
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Open the full verse study3For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
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Open the full verse study1JUDE, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
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Open the full verse study33Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
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Open the full verse study19For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
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Open the full verse study28And the heathen shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
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