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Sanctification vs Godliness - What's the difference?

sanctification | godliness |

As nouns the difference between sanctification and godliness

is that sanctification is the (usually gradual or uncompleted) process by which a Christian believer is made holy through the action of the Holy Spirit while godliness is the condition and quality of being godly, pious, scrupulously observant of all the teaching's of one's religion, practicing virtue and avoiding sin.

sanctification

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (theology) The (usually gradual or uncompleted) process by which a Christian believer is made holy through the action of the Holy Spirit.
  • The process of making holy; hallowing, consecration.
  • (slang, obsolete) Blackmail.

    • godliness

    English

    Noun

  • The condition and quality of being godly, pious, scrupulously observant of all the teaching's of one's religion, practicing virtue and avoiding sin.
  • * 1562 , The Thirty-Nine Articles , :
    • Bishops, Priests, and Deacons are not commanded by God's laws either to vow the estate of single life or to abstain from marriage. Therefore it is lawful also for them, as for all other Christian men, to marry at their own discretion, as they shall judge the same to serve better to godliness .
  • * 1604 , Shakespeare, Othello , :
    • Nay, but he prated,
    And spoke such scurvy and provoking terms
    Against your honour
    That, with the little godliness I have,
    I did full hard forbear him.

    See also

    * deity