John 17:19 · World English Bible
John 17:19 Meaning For Their Sakes I Sanctify Myself
For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
What does John 17:19 mean?
To sanctify oneself is to set oneself apart in a chosen state, and here the awareness does it for the sake of all, since every person is finally one being playing every part. When your own consciousness assumes a higher self and holds it as so, that assumption does not stay private.
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To sanctify oneself is to set oneself apart in a chosen state, and here the awareness does it for the sake of all, since every person is finally one being playing every part. When your own consciousness assumes a higher self and holds it as so, that assumption does not stay private. It lifts the whole, because one imagination lies buried and rising in everyone.
One is made holy through the truth, and the truth is that imagination is the only creative power, the self within that every soul must discover and accept before it can change. A person sets himself apart by occupying the state he wants to be, and in doing so he prepares the same for others. The lifting starts within. You cannot raise another from a self you have not yet dared to occupy. The state you assume and consecrate in yourself becomes the state that redeems those around you.
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Live John 17:19 today
- Choose one way of being you would want for the people around you, patience, honesty, ease, and live it yourself today before mentioning it to anyone. Start where you have actual say.
- With one person who gets the rough edge of you, be the version you wish they would be with you. Go first, without keeping score.
- When a group chat or a meeting turns sour, hold your own tone steady instead of matching the room. One person not escalating changes what the room can do.
What am I asking of others that I have not yet dared to be?
The same truth in other traditions
Confucianism · Great Learning
It sets out one chain: the person is put in order first, then the household, then the state, then the world. You cannot straighten what you stand crooked beside.
Hinduism · Bhagavad Gita 3
Whatever a leading person does, others take as the pattern and walk after it. The example moves further than the instruction.
Judaism · Hillel
If I am not for myself, who will be, and if I am only for myself, what am I. The two halves are one turn of the same key.
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