19 And I am sanctifying myself in their behalf, so that they also may be sanctified by means of truth.

25 Husbands, continue loving your wives,+ just as the Christ also loved the congregation and gave himself up for it,+ 26 in order that he might sanctify it, cleansing it with the bath of water by means of the word,+ 27 so that he might present the congregation to himself in its splendor, without a spot or a wrinkle or any of such things,+ but holy and without blemish.+

13 However, we are obligated always to thank God for you, brothers loved by Jehovah,* because from the beginning God selected you+ for salvation by sanctifying you+ with his spirit and by your faith in the truth.

15 but like the Holy One who called you, become holy yourselves in all your conduct,+ 16 for it is written: “You must be holy, because I am holy.”+