Category
45 Bible Verses about Sanctify the House and Objects
Sanctification. It's about becoming holy through grace, through the blood of Christ. Everything becomes sanctified through Him.
It's natural to feel grateful for gifts and kindness, but it's vital to bring everything before the Lord and ask for it to be sanctified. We need to be aware of hidden intentions. Connecting with the Holy Spirit offers guidance and protection from deception.
Staying in constant prayer, asking Jesus to sanctify us, allows us to live a blessed life, the life God planned for those who love and seek Him. By asking Jesus, we become holy, like our Heavenly Father. Everything we touch should then be used to glorify His name.
Just like in Exodus 29:37, when the altar was purified for seven days, it became most holy. Everything that touched it became holy, too. That's the power of sanctification.
Do this for seven days, and the altar will become so holy that anyone who touches it will become holy.
Moses then dedicated the sacred tent and everything in it to the Lord by sprinkling them with some of the oil for ordination.
I said to the priests: You belong to the Lord, the God of your ancestors, and these things also belong to him. The silver and gold were willingly given as gifts to the Lord.
Everything God created is good. And if you give thanks, you may eat anything.What God has said and your prayer will make it fit to eat.
because it belongs to me, and this is where I will be worshiped forever. I will never stop watching over it.
Do not misuse my name. I am the Lord your God, and I will punish anyone who misuses my name.
The priests and Levites began their work on the first day of the first month. It took them one week to purify the courtyards of the temple and another week to purify the temple. So on the sixteenth day of that same month
But you are God's chosen and special people. You are a group of royal priests and a holy nation. God has brought you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Now you must tell all the wonderful things he has done. The Scriptures say,
for dedicating the tent and chest,the table with its equipment, the lampstand with its equipment, the incense altar with all its utensils,the altar for sacrifices, and the large bowl with its stand.By dedicating them in this way, you will make them so holy that anyone who even touches them will become holy.
The Lord said: I heard your prayer and what you asked me to do. This temple you have built is where I will be worshiped forever. It belongs to me, and I will never stop watching over it.
because I am holy. And so, you must be treated with proper respect, since you offer food sacrifices to me, the God of holiness.
Do the same thing with the altar for offering sacrifices and its equipmentUse the sacred olive oil to dedicate to me the tent and everything in it.
When Moses had finished setting up the sacred tent, he dedicated it to the Lord, together with its furnishings, the altar, and its equipment.
He sprinkled the bronze altar seven times, and he sprinkled its equipment, as well as the large bronze bowl and its base.
Moses then dedicated the sacred tent and everything in it to the Lord by sprinkling them with some of the oil for ordination.He sprinkled the bronze altar seven times, and he sprinkled its equipment, as well as the large bronze bowl and its base.
If my own people will humbly pray and turn back to me and stop sinning, then I will answer them from heaven. I will forgive them and make their land fertile once again.
Listen, Israel! The Lord our God is the only true God!So love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and strength.Memorize his lawsand tell them to your children over and over again. Talk about them all the time, whether you're at home or walking along the road or going to bed at night, or getting up in the morning.Write down copies and tie them to your wrists and foreheads to help you obey them.Write these laws on the door frames of your homes and on your town gates.
Use a finger to sprinkle the altar seven times with the blood, and it will be completely clean from the sins of the people.
Live under the protection of God Most High and stay in the shadow of God All-Powerful.Then you will say to the Lord, “You are my fortress, my place of safety; you are my God, and I trust you.”
Then the tribal officials will say to the troops: If any of you have built a new house, but haven't yet moved in, you may go home. It isn't right for you to die in battle and for somebody else to live in your new house.
But if you don't want to worship the Lord, then choose here and now! Will you worship the same idols your ancestors did? Or since you're living on land that once belonged to the Amorites, maybe you'll worship their gods. I won't. My family and I are going to worship and obey the Lord!
Our Lord God, we have brought all these things for building a temple to honor you. They belong to you, and you gave them to us.
On that day, Solomon dedicated the courtyard in front of the temple and made it acceptable for worship. He offered the sacrifices there because the bronze altar in front of the temple was too small.
Go inside and lock the doors, my people. Hide there for a little while, until the Lord is no longer angry.The Lord will come out to punish everyone on earth for their sins. And when he does, those who did violent crimes will be known and punished.
But more than anything else, put God's work first and do what he wants. Then the other things will be yours as well.
Because of who I am, the tent will become sacred, and Aaron and his sons will become worthy to serve as my priests.
These leaders gathered together the rest of the Levites, and they all went through the ceremony to make themselves clean. Then they began to purify the temple according to the Law of the Lord, just as Hezekiah had commanded.The priests went into the temple and carried out everything that was unclean. They put these things in the courtyard, and from there, the Levites carried them outside the city to Kidron Valley.The priests and Levites began their work on the first day of the first month. It took them one week to purify the courtyards of the temple and another week to purify the temple. So on the sixteenth day of that same month
I will praise you, Lord! You saved me from the grave and kept my enemies from celebrating my death.
Then we said, “Let's go to the throne of the Lord and worship at his feet.”Come to your new home, Lord, you and the sacred chest with all its power.
So let's come near God with pure hearts and a confidence that comes from having faith. Let's keep our hearts pure, our consciences free from evil, and our bodies washed with clean water.
Everyone who serves the Lord, come and offer praises. Everyone who has gathered in his temple tonight,lift your hands in prayer toward his holy place and praise the Lord.
I will bring them to my holy mountain, where they will celebrate in my house of worship. Their sacrifices and offerings will always be welcome on my altar. Then my house will be known as a house of worship for all nations.
The priests will purify the altar during those days, so that it will be acceptable to me and ready to use.
Priests must teach my people the difference between what is sacred and what is ordinary, and between what is clean and what is unclean.
He told them, “The Scriptures say, ‘My house should be called a place of worship.’ But you have turned it into a place where robbers hide.”
Jesus said to the people who had been selling doves, “Get those doves out of here! Don't make my Father's house a marketplace.”
The voice spoke to him again, “When God says that something can be used for food, don't say it isn't fit to eat.”
All of you surely know you are God's temple and his Spirit lives in you.Together you are God's holy temple, and God will destroy anyone who destroys his temple.
Do idols belong in the temple of God? We are the temple of the living God, as God himself says, “I will live with these people and walk among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
Christ is the one who holds the building together and makes it grow into a holy temple for the Lord.And you are part of that building Christ has built as a place for God's own Spirit to live.
Whatever you say or do should be done in the name of the Lord Jesus, as you give thanks to God the Father because of him.