Honour vs Sanctify - What's the difference?
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* 1902 , Richard Francis Weymouth, Translation of the New Testament of the Bible , Book 60, 1 Peter 2:4:
* (rfdate), Shakespeare:
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To make holy; to consecrate. Set aside for sacred or ceremonial use.
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To free from sin; to purify.
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To make acceptable or useful under religious law or practice.
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To endorse with religious sanction.
Honour is a related term of sanctify.
As a proper noun honour
is , a less common spelling of honor.As a verb sanctify is
to make holy; to consecrate set aside for sacred or ceremonial use.honour
English
Noun
- Come to Him, the ever-living Stone, rejected indeed by men as worthless, but in God's esteem chosen and held in honour .
- If she have forgot / Honour and virtue.
- Godlike erect, with native honour clad.
sanctify
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Verb
(en-verb)- And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
- And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified , but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
- Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word.
- For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.