Verse 5

For it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.

Referenced Verses

• Gen 1:25 : 25 God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.
• Gen 1:31 : 31 God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.
• Luke 4:4 : 4 Jesus answered him, saying, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.'"
• Luke 11:41 : 41 But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.
• 1 Cor 7:14 : 14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
• 1 Tim 4:3 : 3 forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
• Titus 1:15 : 15 To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.