1. 1 Corinthians 1:2 (ESV)
  2. Application

God’s people are perfectly holy

1 Corinthians 1:2 (ESV)

2 To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:

The word sanctify is used, not only to signify that the thing is set apart for holy uses, but that it is to be regarded, treated, and declared as a holy thing…If the word sanctified may mean regarded as holy and treated as such, can you not see how in Christ Jesus the saints are regarded by God as being holy and treated as such?…It is a fact, that for the sake of what Jesus Christ did, God’s people, though in themselves but partially sanctified as being yet subject to sin, are for Christ’s sake treated and regarded as if they were perfectly holy.1

Charles H. Spurgeon