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Question 40 of 118

What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification?

The benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification, are, assurance of God’s love, peace of conscience, joy in the Holy Spirit, increase of grace, and perseverance therein to the end.

Scripture proofs

  • Romans 5:1-5

    Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance; and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope; and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

  • Romans 14:17

    for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

  • Proverbs 4:18

    But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

  • 1 Peter 1:5

    who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

  • 1 John 5:13

    These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible (public domain).

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