What does the Bible say about consecration?
Christians are called to embrace a lifestyle of consecration, dedicating ourselves to the Lord for His purpose. As believers, we are urged to present ourselves as living sacrifices to God. There is a profound beauty in this act of consecration, turning away from idols, to experience a deeper connection with the Lord. Do you long to encounter God and grow closer to Him? If so, I encourage you to ready your heart to meet Him, much like the Israelites prepared themselves to encounter Him and receive the Ten Commandments.
As God’s people, we should hold Him in the highest regard. The more we recognize His true nature, the more it should draw us toward repentance and humility. This awareness should motivate us to surrender fully and pursue a life of holiness, prompting us to cast aside anything that hinders our relationship with Him. Let’s pray to take consecration seriously.
1. Romans 12:1 (NIV) – “Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.”
2. Leviticus 20:7 (ESV) – “Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God.”
3. 1 Peter 1:15-16 (NASB) – “But like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; because it is written, ‘You shall be holy, for I am holy.’”
4. Exodus 19:10 (NKJV) – “Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes.’”
5. Joshua 3:5 (KJV) – “And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for to morrow the Lord will do wonders among you.”
6. 2 Timothy 2:21 (NLT) – “If you keep yourself pure, you will be a special utensil for honorable use. Your life will be clean, and you will be ready for the Master to use you for every good work.”
7. John 17:17 (NIV) – “Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.”
8. 1 Thessalonians 5:23 (ESV) – “Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
9. Exodus 13:2 (NASB) – “Sanctify to Me every firstborn, the first offspring of every womb among the sons of Israel, both of man and beast; it belongs to Me.”
10. Hebrews 13:12 (NKJV) – “Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate.”
11. Leviticus 11:44 (KJV) – “For I am the Lord your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”
12. Ephesians 5:26 (NLT) – “To make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word.”
13. Psalm 4:3 (NIV) – “Know that the Lord has set apart his faithful servant for himself; the Lord hears when I call to him.”
14. 2 Chronicles 29:5 (ESV) – “And said to them, ‘Hear me, Levites! Now consecrate yourselves, and consecrate the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and carry out the filth from the Holy Place.’”
15. 1 Corinthians 6:11 (NASB) – “Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.”
16. Exodus 28:41 (NKJV) – “So you shall put them on Aaron your brother and on his sons with him. You shall anoint them, consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister to Me as priests.”
17. Deuteronomy 15:19 (KJV) – “All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.”
18. Colossians 3:17 (NLT) – “And whatever you do or say, do it as a representative of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through him to God the Father.”
19. Isaiah 66:17 (NIV) – “Those who consecrate and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following one who is among those who eat the flesh of pigs, rats and other unclean things—they will meet their end together with the one they follow, declares the Lord.”
20. Hebrews 10:10 (ESV) – “And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.”
21. Leviticus 27:28 (NASB) – “Nevertheless, anything which a man sets apart to the Lord out of all that he has, of man or animal or of the fields of his own property, shall not be sold or redeemed. Anything devoted to destruction is most holy to the Lord.”
22. 1 Samuel 16:5 (NKJV) – “And he said, ‘Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. Sanctify yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.’ He also sanctified Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.”
23. Psalm 119:9 (KJV) – “Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.”
24. Romans 6:19 (NLT) – “Because of the weakness of your human nature, I am using the illustration of slavery to help you understand all this. Previously, you let yourselves be slaves to impurity and lawlessness, which led ever deeper into sin. Now you must give yourselves to be slaves to righteous living so that you will become holy.”
25. Exodus 30:29 (NIV) – “You shall consecrate them so they will be most holy, and whatever touches them will be holy.”
26. 2 Corinthians 7:1 (ESV) – “Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.”
27. Numbers 8:17 (NASB) – “For every firstborn among the sons of Israel is Mine, among the men and among the animals; on the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for Myself.”
28. 1 Thessalonians 4:3 (NKJV) – “For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality.”
29. Ezekiel 20:12 (KJV) – “Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them.”
30. John 10:36 (NLT) – “Why do you call it blasphemy when I say, ‘I am the Son of God’? After all, the Father set me apart and sent me into the world.”
