All believers are a holy and¹ sanctified people, and that sanctification is a spiritual grace of the² new covenant, and an effect of the³ love of God manifested in the soul, whereby the believer presses after a heavenly and evangelical obedience to all the commands, which Christ as head and king in His new covenant has prescribed to them.

1. 1 Corinthians 12 | 1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. ↩︎
2. Ephesians 1:4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. ↩︎
3. Matthew 28:20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” 1 John 4:16So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.  ↩︎