the Week of Proper 16 / Ordinary 21
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John 17:17
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Sanctify
Sanctifie them through thy trueth: thy word is trueth.
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
"Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth.
Make them ready for your service through your truth; your teaching is truth.
"Sanctify them in the truth [set them apart for Your purposes, make them holy]; Your word is truth.
"Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth.
Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.
Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.
Your word is the truth. So let this truth make them completely yours.
Sanctify them by the truth: thy word is truth.
Make them ready for your service through your truth. Your teaching is truth.
Sanctifie them with thy trueth: thy word is trueth.
O Father, sanctify them in your truth, because your word is truth.
Dedicate them to yourself by means of the truth; your word is truth.
Sanctify them in the truth—your word is truth.
Sanctify them in Your Truth; Your Word is Truth.
Sanctify them in the truth: thy word is truth.
Make them holy by the true word: your word is the true word.
Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.
Sanctify them by the truth. Your word is truth.2 Samuel 7:28; Psalm 119:142,151; John 8:40; 15:3; Acts 15:9; Ephesians 5:26; 1 Peter 1:22;">[xr]
Father, sanctify them through thy truth; for thy word is truth.
Father, sanctify them by thy truth, thy word is the truth.
Sanctifie them through thy trueth. Thy worde is the trueth.
Sanctify them in the truth: thy word is truth.
Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.
Sanctify them thro' the truth: thy word is truth.
Make them holy in the truth: Thy Message is truth.
Halewe thou hem in treuth; thi word is treuthe.
Sanctify them in the truth: your word is truth.
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
Set them apart in the truth; your word is truth.
Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.
Make them holy by your truth; teach them your word, which is truth.
Make them holy for Yourself by the truth. Your Word is truth.
Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
Hallow them in the truth: Thine own word, is, truth:
Sanctify them in truth. Thy word is truth.
Sanctify them in the truth; thy word is truth.
Sanctify the wt thy truth. Thy sayinge is truth.
sanctify them in Thy truth, Thy word is truth;
Sanctifye them in thy trueth. Thy worde is the trueth.
sanctify them by the truth: thy word is truth.
"Use the truth to make them holy like you. Your word is the truth.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Sanctify: John 17:19, John 8:32, John 15:3, Psalms 19:7-9, Psalms 119:9, Psalms 119:11, Psalms 119:104, Luke 8:11, Luke 8:15, Acts 15:9, 2 Corinthians 3:18, Ephesians 5:26, 2 Thessalonians 2:13, James 1:21, 1 Peter 1:22, 1 Peter 1:23
word: John 8:40, 2 Samuel 7:28, Psalms 12:6, Psalms 19:7, Psalms 119:144, Psalms 119:151, Psalms 119:152, Ephesians 4:21, 2 Timothy 2:25, 2 Timothy 2:26
Reciprocal: Exodus 31:13 - that ye may Leviticus 22:32 - hallow you Numbers 19:18 - General 1 Chronicles 15:12 - sanctify Psalms 17:4 - word Psalms 119:142 - and thy Proverbs 8:7 - my mouth Ezekiel 20:12 - I am Ezekiel 37:28 - sanctify Acts 20:32 - to build Acts 26:18 - sanctified 1 Corinthians 1:2 - sanctified 1 Corinthians 1:30 - sanctification Ephesians 4:24 - true holiness 1 Thessalonians 2:13 - effectually 1 Thessalonians 4:3 - your 1 Timothy 2:4 - the knowledge
Cross-References
Avram fell on his face, and God continued speaking with him:
God answered, "No, but Sarah your wife will bear you a son, and you are to call him Yitz'chak [laughter]. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
But as for Yishma‘el, I have heard you. I have blessed him. I will make him fruitful and give him many descendants. He will father twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
So Sarah laughed to herself, thinking, "I am old, and so is my lord; am I to have pleasure again?"
Sarah said, "God has given me good reason to laugh; now everyone who hears about it will laugh with me."
(iii) Fire came forth from the presence of Adonai , consuming the burnt offering and the fat on the altar. When all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces.
Moshe and Aharon fell on their faces before the entire assembled community of the people of Isra'el.
They fell on their faces and said, "Oh God, God of the spirits of all humankind, if one person sins, are you going to be angry with the entire assembly?"
Now Korach the son of Yitz'har, the son of K'hat, the son of Levi, along with Datan and Aviram, the sons of Eli'av, and On, the son of Pelet, descendants of Re'uven, took men and rebelled against Moshe. Siding with them were 250 men of Isra'el, leaders of the community, key members of the council, men of reputation. They assembled themselves against Moshe and Aharon and said to them, "You take too much on yourselves! After all, the entire community is holy, every one of them, and Adonai is among them. So why do you lift yourselves up above Adonai 's assembly?" When Moshe heard this he fell on his face. Then he said to Korach and his whole group, "In the morning, Adonai will show who are his and who is the holy person he will allow to approach him. Yes, he will bring whomever he chooses near to himself. Do this: take censers, Korach and all your group; put fire in them; and put incense in them before Adonai tomorrow. The one whom Adonai chooses will be the one who is holy! It is you, you sons of Levi, who are taking too much on yourselves!" Then Moshe said to Korach, "Listen here, you sons of Levi! Is it for you a mere trifle that the God of Isra'el has separated you from the community of Isra'el to bring you close to himself, so that you can do the work in the tabernacle of Adonai and stand before the community serving them? He has brought you close and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you. Now you want the office of cohen too! That's why you and your group have gathered together against Adonai ! After all, what is Aharon that you complain against him?" Then Moshe sent to summon Datan and Aviram, the sons of Eli'av. But they replied, "We won't come up! Is it such a mere trifle, bringing us up from a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the desert, that now you arrogate to yourself the role of dictator over us? (ii) You haven't at all brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, and you haven't put us in possession of fields and vineyards. Do you think you can gouge out these men's eyes and blind them? We won't come up!" Moshe was very angry and said to Adonai , "Don't accept their grain offering! I haven't taken one donkey from them, I've done nothing wrong to any of them." Moshe said to Korach, "You and your group, be there before Adonai tomorrow — you, they and Aharon. Each of you take his fire pan and put incense in it; every one of you, bring before Adonai his fire pan, 250 fire pans, you too, and Aharon — each one his fire pan." Each man took his fire pan, put fire in it, laid incense on it and stood at the entrance to the tent of meeting with Moshe and Aharon. Korach assembled all the group who were against them at the entrance to the tent of meeting. Then the glory of Adonai appeared to the whole assembly. (iii) Adonai said to Moshe and Aharon, "Separate yourselves from this assembly; I'm going to destroy them right now!" They fell on their faces and said, "Oh God, God of the spirits of all humankind, if one person sins, are you going to be angry with the entire assembly?" Adonai answered Moshe, "Tell the assembly to move away from the homes of Korach, Datan and Aviram." Moshe got up and went to Datan and Aviram, and the leaders of Isra'el followed him. There he said to the assembly, "Leave the tents of these wicked men! Don't touch anything that belongs to them, or you may be swept away in all their sins." So they moved away from all around the area where Korach, Datan and Aviram lived. Then Datan and Aviram came out and stood at the entrance to their tents with their wives, sons and little ones. Moshe said, "Here is how you will know that Adonai has sent me to do all these things and that I haven't done them out of my own ambition: if these men die a natural death like other people, only sharing the fate common to all humanity, then Adonai has not sent me. But if Adonai does something new — if the ground opens up and swallows them with everything they own, and they go down alive to Sh'ol — then you will understand that these men have had contempt for Adonai ." The moment he finished speaking, the ground under them split apart — the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their households, all the people who had sided with Korach and everything they owned. So they and everything they owned went down alive into Sh'ol, the earth closed over them and their existence in the community ceased. All Isra'el around them fled at their shrieks, shouting, "The earth might swallow us too!" Then fire came out from Adonai and destroyed the 250 men who had offered the incense.
Then I fell down before Adonai , as I had the first time, for forty days and nights, during which time I neither ate food nor drank water, all because of the sin you committed by doing what was evil in the sight of Adonai and thus provoking him.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Sanctify them through thy truth,.... The Syriac version introduces this petition, with the appellation אבא, "Abba, Father": and the sanctification prayed for regards the apostles, either as ministers of the word, and may intend their separation for their work and office; for which though they were sanctified or separated from their mother's womb, and by Christ when he sent them forth, yet were to have a fresh commission and unction after our Lord's resurrection, and upon his ascension to heaven; and also their qualification for it, with the truth of grace and doctrine, with holiness of heart and life, and with a preservation in the truth, by being kept faithful to it: or it may also regard them as Christians and believers, and intend a greater degree of the sanctification of the Spirit, which is imperfect in this life; for though sanctification in Christ is perfect, and so it is in the saints, as to parts, yet not as to degrees; which appears from the imperfection of faith, hope, love, and knowledge, from indwelling sin, being in the best of saints, from their necessities, from their disclaiming perfection, and their desires after it. Sanctification is a progressive work, which is carried on gradually; as is clear from the characters of regenerate ones, who are first newborn babes, then young men, and afterwards fathers in Christ; from the similes, by which it is expressed as seed which opens and grows up by degrees, and light which shines more and more unto the perfect day from exhortations to a concern for the growth of it, and prayers for it: and it is indeed continually carrying on, as may be concluded from the hand in which it is; and the progress and finishing of this work, as well as the beginning of it, are entirely the Lord's; and the way and means in which this is done, are by or through the truth of the Gospel:
thy word is truth; it is "peculiarly" so, as the Arabic version reads it. The Gospel is here meant, and is so called on account of its original, it comes from the God of truth; and because of the concern which Christ, who is the truth, has in it, he being the author, preacher, and sum and substance of it; and because the Spirit of truth has dictated it, leads into it, qualifies men to preach it, and makes it effectual: and because it contains all truth necessary to salvation, and nothing but truth, and particularly that eminent truth, salvation alone by Christ; and because it is opposed to the law, which is but a shadow, of which the good things in the Gospel are the substance: now this is the means both of the beginning, and increasing, and carrying on the work of sanctification in the hearts of God's people, as well as of an experimental knowledge of it; and an increase of that knowledge does more and more qualify the ministers of it for their ministerial work and service, which seems here chiefly designed.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Sanctify them - This word means to render pure, or to cleanse from sins, 1Th 5:23; 1 Corinthians 6:11. Sanctification in the heart of a Christian is progressive. It consists in his becoming more like God and less attached to the world; in his getting the ascendency over evil thoughts, and passions, and impure desires; and in his becoming more and more weaned from earthly objects, and attached to those things which are unseen and eternal. The word also means “to consecrate, to set apart to a holy office or purpose.” See John 17:19; also the notes at John 10:36. When Jesus prayed here that God would sanctify them, he probably included both these ideas, that they might be made personally more holy, and might be truly consecrated to God as the ministers of his religion. Ministers of the gospel will be really devoted to the service of God just in proportion as they are personally pure.
Through thy truth - Truth is a representation of things as they are. The Saviour prayed that through those just views of God and of themselves they might be made holy. To see things as they are is to see God to be infinitely lovely and pure; his commands to be reasonable and just; heaven to be holy and desirable; his service to be easy, and religion pleasant, and sin odious; to see that life is short, that death is near; that the pride, pomp, pleasures, wealth, and honors of this world are of little value, and that it is of infinite importance to be prepared to enter on the eternal state of being. He that sees all this, or that looks on things as they are, will desire to be holy. He will make it his great object to live near to God and to glorify his name. In the sanctification of the soul God makes use of all truth, or of everything fitted to make a representation of things as they are to the mind. His Word states that and no more; His Spirit and His Providence do it. The earth and the heavens, the seasons, the sunshine and the rain, are all fitted to teach us his goodness and power, and lead us to him. His daily mercies tend to the same end, and afflictions have the same design. Our own sickness teaches us that we are soon to die. The death of a friend teaches us the instability of all earthly comforts, and the necessity of seeking better joys. All these things are fitted to make just representations to the mind, and thus to sanctify the soul. As the Christian is constantly amid these objects, so he should be constantly growing in grace, and daily and hourly gaining new and deeper impressions of the great truths of religion.
Thy word is truth - All that thou hast spoken - that is, all that is contained in the Bible. All the commands and promises of God; His representations of His own character and that of man; His account of the mission and death of His Son; of the grave, the resurrection, judgment, and eternity, all tend to represent things as they are, and are thus fitted to sanctify the soul. We have here also the testimony of the Saviour that the revelation which God has given is true. All that God has spoken is true, and the Christian should rejoice and the sinner should tremble. See Psalms 19:7-14.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse John 17:17. Sanctify them — αγιασον, from α, negative, and γη, the earth. This word has two meanings:
1. It signifies to consecrate, to separate from earth and common use, and to devote or dedicate to God and his service.
2. It signifies to make holy or pure. The prayer of Christ may be understood in both these senses. He prayed -
1. That they might be fully consecrated to the work of the ministry, and separated from all worldly concerns.
2. That they might be holy, and patterns of all holiness to those to whom they announced the salvation of God. A minister who engages himself in worldly concerns is a reproach to the Gospel; and he who is not saved from his own sins can with a bad grace recommend salvation to others.
Through thy truth — It is not only according to the truth of God that ministers are to be set apart to the sacred work; but it is from that truth, and according to it, that they must preach to others. That doctrine which is not drawn from the truth of God can never save souls. God blesses no word but his own; because none is truth, without mixture of error, but that which has proceeded from himself. Our Lord still acts here in reference to the conduct of the high priest, to whom it belonged to sanctify the priests, the sons of Aaron: John 17:1.
