Notice that nothing is holy before God, but everything is sinful and condemned that man lives and does without God's word. Again, nothing is so unholy and terrible that it cannot be made right, holy and worthy by God's Word. Just as the death of the faithful, who are sanctified by the Word, is considered worthy and precious in the sight of God, who is otherwise terrible beyond measure to all the world.
Complete Luther Library
Sanctify them in your truth.
Volume 9 from the one-column St. Louis Edition English DOCX texts, reformatted for mobile reading on Last Christian Ministries.
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