Q.77. What is the difference between justification and sanctification?
A. Although sanctification is inseparably joined to justification ,[1] the two are distinctly different. In justification God imputes the righteousness of Christ to believers;[2] in sanctification his Spirit infuses believers with grace and enables them to use it.[3] In the former, sin is pardoned;[4] in the latter, it is subdued.[5] The one exempts all believers equally and completely from the avenging anger and condemnation of God in this life;[6] the other does not work equally in all believers,[7] nor is it completed in any believer in this life,[8] but only grows toward perfection.[9]
| 1 | 1 Corinthians 6:11 | dummy text |
| 1 Corinthians 1:30 | dummy text | |
| Romans 8:30 | dummy text | |
| 2 | Romans 4:6 | dummy text |
| Romans 4:8 | dummy text | |
| Philippians 3:8-9 | dummy text | |
| 2 Corinthians 5:21 | dummy text | |
| 3 | Ezekiel 36:27 | dummy text |
| 4 | Romans 3:24-25 | dummy text |
| 5 | Romans 6:6 | dummy text |
| Romans 6:14 | dummy text | |
| 6 | Romans 8:1 | dummy text |
| Romans 8:33-34 | dummy text | |
| 7 | 1 John 2:12-14 | dummy text |
| Hebrews 5:12-14 | dummy text | |
| 1 Corinthians 3:1-2 | dummy text | |
| Mark 4:8 | dummy text | |
| Mark 4:28 | dummy text | |
| 8 | 1 John 1:8 | dummy text |
| 1 John 1:10 | dummy text | |
| 9 | 2 Corinthians 7:1 | dummy text |
| Philippians 3:12-14 | dummy text | |
| Ephesians 4:11-15 | dummy text |