09 - Conclusion

Right at the start, I noted that Bible translators have struggled over the words ‘sanctification’ and ‘holiness’, and the like, and that this has not helped believers come to a right understanding of the vital doctrine of sanctification. By way of conclusion, and in order to drive home the point I have been making, let me quote some of the leading texts we have looked at, and offer my own translation – justified, I hope, by the argument I have set out throughout this volume.
The writer to the Hebrews told us:
We have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all... When Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God... For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified (Heb. 10:10-14).