Once saved, always saved

[Grace777x70]

This is what believers in the grace of our Lord Jesus have to say about "sanctification"..the word itself means = "to be set apart"

We are perfectly sanctified in Christ now....very true....we as an identity the new creation in Christ will never be more holy....however there is a "sanctifying" of our behavior that is on-going that reflects our true nature in Christ...so in essence...we are becoming outwardly who we really are in our inner man which is in Christ.

God sets apart ( sanctifies ) our attitudes and actions outwardly but you are 100% set apart ( sanctified ) as a person..the real you in your inner man..the new creation in Christ.

Hebrews 10:14 (NASB)
[SUP]14 [/SUP] For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified. ( this is present passive..passive is that something is being done to you ...the Spirit of the Lord in us changing us. )

Here is what Jesus told Paul on the road to Damascus....having been sanctified ( perfect passive )..= done deal

Acts 26:17-18 (NASB)
[SUP]17 [/SUP] rescuing you from the Jewish people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you,
[SUP]18 [/SUP] to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the dominion of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me.' ( perfect passive )



Sanctification to our "religious minds" could mean a lot of different things to different people as it depends on the religious beliefs formulated from our backgrounds....to some it is no doing the "biggie sins" or it could be no smoking..no drinking..no going to church..no reading your bible every day..no praying for an hour each day.....no going to a movie...reading a newspaper...no being a servant of God...to the religious mindset it's no doing "what I don't do.."

 

[Grace777x70]

It is obvious from scripture that we are to walk out the holiness that is already in us in Christ..in our inner man..the new creation.

There is a difference between us as a person being "set apart" ( sanctified in our spirit ) and "setting apart " ( sanctifying ) our behavior outwardly to reflect our true self in the Lord now. It's definitely a process!.

1 Peter 1:15-16 (NASB)
[SUP]15 [/SUP] but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior;
[SUP]16 [/SUP] because it is written, "YOU SHALL BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY."


The question remains..is it us doing it by our own D.I.Y. self-effort/righteousness/holiness?..or is by the transformation by the Spirit of God manifesting the life of Christ with His fruit bearing in and through our lives?

 

[roaringkitten]

The day of atonement and OT symbol of the blood of the lamb means nothing to these folks. They trample on the blood and sacrifice of Christ, While screaming sinner to everyone who is against their self righteous form of Christianity.

Grace very mush defines what you do after you are saved. The blood of Christ is wholly able to save and to keep us saved or we are not and never were saved.

You simply will not recognize the difference between salvation and sanctification. Until you do you will abide in error.

Jesus Christ is mighty to save you make Him weak and that is a disgrace.

For the cause of Christ
Roger

You both summed it up perfectly. They don't want to talk about the blood of Jesus, and if they give it a passing thought, they minimize it. That's the one thing lacking in all these OSAS threads, those opposed to eternal security conveniently leave out the blood of the Lamb as their main points of discussion. The blood is central to salvation. He saves to the uttermost(Heb 7) :

23And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:
24 But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.
25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

Heb 9:


11But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:

14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

 

[HeRoseFromTheDead]

You just cannot trust Christ. We don't do anything. Christ has done it all. Sanctification is an evidence of salvation not a cause toward salvation.

Trust Jesus He has done it all there is nothing to be added. Allow Jesus to work in your life and cease from you own efforts.

For the cause of Christ
Roger

It's pretty simple really. Works without faith is dead.

Now without faith [it is] impossible to please [GOD], for the one who approaches God must believe that he exists and is a rewarder of those who seek him. Hebrews 11:6​

And faith without works is dead.

For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead. James 2:26​

And your statement that we are not to add anything simply isn't true. These are our instructions:

and [for] this same [reason], and [by] applying all diligence, supply with your faith excellence, and with excellence, knowledge, and with knowledge, self-control, and with self-control, patient endurance, and with patient endurance, godliness, and with godliness, brotherly love, and with brotherly love, love. ​For [if] these [things] are yours and are increasing, this does not make [you] useless or unproductive in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 1:5-8​

 

[Grace777x70]

People not growing in the qualities of the Lord in 2 Peter1 :5-9 is because they have forgotten that they all their sins were forgiven by the blood of Jesus.

This is why it is so important to preach and teach the gospel of the grace of Christ to all of us as we need to keep hearing it especially with self-works doctrine that is around from religious man-made teachings. Your sins are forgiven I will remember them no more, says the Lord.

2 Peter 1:8-9 (NASB)
[SUP]8 [/SUP] For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
[SUP]9 [/SUP] For he who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins.

 

[PeterJens]

The day of atonement and OT symbol of the blood of the lamb means nothing to these folks. They trample on the blood and sacrifice of Christ, While screaming sinner to everyone who is against their self righteous form of Christianity.

This is a terrible thing to say about people, who follow Jesus.

The two quotes elsewhere are the old covenant relied on man but failed, the new convenant relies on Christ alone and so succeeds.

The mistake is the old covenant is the symbol of Christs spiritual reality, and when Christ came the symbols were no longer needed because reality had arrived. If the old covenant failed so did the new.

You devalue the role of man in Gods plans. The Lord proclaimed from the bottom of His heart we matter, we are worthy, and he is willling to come and be our friend, to empower us to walk as He walks and have victory over sin and death.

To say we are trampling on our Lord and saviour grieves me at just the idea. What you are claiming is no such thing as success and victory. Jesus bought a people who failed, and walk appropriately. And because we walk in this victory you say we are trampling on Christ. It is an absurd idea, because only Jesus makes this possible and we are following Him, in obedience to our Lords words.

 

[Grace777x70]

The day of atonement and OT symbol of the blood of the lamb means nothing to these folks. They trample on the blood and sacrifice of Christ, While screaming sinner to everyone who is against their self righteous form of Christianity.

This is true and people that are offended with this have identified themselves as having a self-righteous form of Christianity....selah

I encourage all of us to come to Christ and depend on His righteousness only and let His life and fruit bear in and through our lives to a hurt and dying world and to our brethren as well!

 

[HeRoseFromTheDead]

People not growing in the qualities of the Lord in 2 Peter1 :5-9 is because they have forgotten that they all their sins were forgiven by the blood of Jesus.

This is why it is so important to preach and teach the gospel of the grace of Christ to all of us as we need to keep hearing it especially with self-works doctrine that is around from religious man-made teachings. Your sins are forgiven I will remember them no more, says the Lord.

2 Peter 1:8-9 (NASB)
[SUP]8 [/SUP] For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
[SUP]9 [/SUP] For he who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins.

By saying all sins are forgiven, you, of course, mean future sins have already been forgiven as well. But Peter only said that one's past sins have been cleansed.

 

[Justcallmetinman]

By saying all sins are forgiven, you, of course, mean future sins have already been forgiven as well. But Peter only said that one's past sins have been cleansed.

I am fully persuaded by scripture that noone can rip me from my saviors hand but I am also fully persuaded that we repent as often as we sin. When we are convicted of sin we dont say thank you Jesus,I am so righteous. This hyper grace teaching is very perverse imho

 

[Grace777x70]

On the subject of forgiveness that we have in Christ now because of His precious Blood...here is what the scriptures say.....sometimes the truth in the gospel of the grace of Christ "conflicts" with what we have been religiously taught.

1 John 2:12 (NASB)
[SUP]12 [/SUP] I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven you for His name's sake.

have been forgiven = perfect passive

perfect = The perfect tense expresses perfective action. Perfective action involves a present state which has resulted from a past action. The present state is a continuing state; the past action is a completed action. It is continuously happening in the present.

passive = voice = action is happening to you....you are not doing it

Without a doubt this verse says that the sins are forgiven from a past action that remains in a continuous completed state and that was put on them....not something they did.

Ephesians 1:7 (KJV)
[SUP]7 [/SUP] In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

We have redemption = present continuous action...so this means we have present continuous forgiveness of our sins...

and look...that grace stuff shows up again!...it's all according to the riches of our loving Father's grace that He has given to us in Christ our Lord.

Colossians 1:13-14 (NASB)
[SUP]13 [/SUP] For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son,
[SUP]14 [/SUP] in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Same thing here too...present continuous action = forgiveness of sins


Redemption!..we have been bought with the precious Blood of Jesus... Let's honor His work.


Brethren ...we have a great salvation in our Lord!

Walk in the knowledge of your forgiveness in Christ and in that security we will experience maturity.

 

[Justcallmetinman]

On the subject of forgiveness that we have in Christ now because of His precious Blood...here is what the scriptures say.....sometimes the truth in the gospel of the grace of Christ "conflicts" with what we have been religiously taught.

1 John 2:12 (NASB)
[SUP]12 [/SUP] I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven you for His name's sake.

have been forgiven = perfect passive

perfect = The perfect tense expresses perfective action. Perfective action involves a present state which has resulted from a past action. The present state is a continuing state; the past action is a completed action. It is continuously happening in the present.

passive = voice = action is happening to you....you are not doing it

Without a doubt this verse says that the sins are forgiven from a past action that remains in a continuous completed state and that was put on them....not something they did.

Ephesians 1:7 (KJV)
[SUP]7 [/SUP] In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

We have redemption = present continuous action...so this means we have present continuous forgiveness of our sins...

and look...that grace stuff shows up again!...it's all according to the riches of our loving Father's grace that He has given to us in Christ our Lord.

Colossians 1:13-14 (NASB)
[SUP]13 [/SUP] For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son,
[SUP]14 [/SUP] in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Same thing here too...present continuous action = forgiveness of sins


Redemption!..we have been bought with the precious Blood of Jesus... Let's honor His work


Brethren ...we have a great salvation in our Lord!

Continuous action yes but that doesnt mean we stop repenting when we sin. When God brings things to focus that we have sinned , its obvious that we say >Im sorry Father . Isnt this the WOF new revelation of the last idk 30 yrs and more prevalent now?
You better be really sure of your stance on this because you will be held accountable for leading people to wrong thinking. It may be safer to not TEACH.

 

[roaringkitten]

This is a terrible thing to say about people, who follow Jesus.

The two quotes elsewhere are the old covenant relied on man but failed, the new convenant relies on Christ alone and so succeeds.

The mistake is the old covenant is the symbol of Christs spiritual reality, and when Christ came the symbols were no longer needed because reality had arrived. If the old covenant failed so did the new.

You devalue the role of man in Gods plans. The Lord proclaimed from the bottom of His heart we matter, we are worthy, and he is willling to come and be our friend, to empower us to walk as He walks and have victory over sin and death.

To say we are trampling on our Lord and saviour grieves me at just the idea. What you are claiming is no such thing as success and victory. Jesus bought a people who failed, and walk appropriately. And because we walk in this victory you say we are trampling on Christ. It is an absurd idea, because only Jesus makes this possible and we are following Him, in obedience to our Lords words.

Peter, What about the blood of Jesus? Do you think the blood really covers all our sins or not? Are we not secured by it? These are the questions that need to be answered on these OSAS threads.

THERE IS POWER IN THE BLOOD

1. Would you be free from the burden of sin?
   There’s pow’r in the blood, pow’r in the blood;
   Would you o’er evil a victory win?
   There’s wonderful pow’r in the blood.
   • Refrain:
     There is pow’r, pow’r, wonder-working pow’r
     In the blood of the Lamb;
     There is pow’r, pow’r, wonder-working pow’r
     In the precious blood of the Lamb.
2. Would you be free from your passion and pride?
   There’s pow’r in the blood, pow’r in the blood;
   Come for a cleansing to Calvary’s tide;
   There’s wonderful pow’r in the blood.
3. Would you be whiter, much whiter than snow?
   There’s pow’r in the blood, pow’r in the blood;
   Sin-stains are lost in its life-giving flow;
   There’s wonderful pow’r in the blood.
4. Would you do service for Jesus your King?
   There’s pow’r in the blood, pow’r in the blood;
   Would you live daily His praises to sing?
   There’s wonderful pow’r in the blood.

Author Lewis E. Jones

"Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot" 1 Pet 1:18-19

"And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood" Rev 1:5

"And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb." Rev 7:14

In Conclusion:

"How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?" Rev 9:14

 

[Grace777x70]

Continuous action yes but that doesnt mean we stop repenting when we sin. When God brings things to focus that we have sinned , its obvious that we say >Im sorry Father . Isnt this the WOF new revelation of the last idk 30 yrs and more prevalent now?
You better be really sure of your stance on this because you will be held accountable for leading people to wrong thinking. It may be safer to not TEACH.

Of course we repent. We repent constantly when we see truth! As Christians we should be living a life of repentance. Grace is not a license to sin..grace doesn't save us "to" sin but "from" sin.

Repentance doesn't just mean what someone thinks about sin - it means to change our mind - how we think about the Father, the Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit and walking in love. Every time we learn new truths we should be repenting to get our minds renewed to the truth.

I am 100% sure of what the scriptures say. I have lived in the other religious world and I have lived in grace. Grace is the true one. I proudly proclaim the gospel of the grace of Christ.

 

[PilgrimPassingThru]

Acts 26:20 But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.

As earlier, these first

Acts 3:26 Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.

Ti 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

 

[Grace777x70]

The word "repentance" - metanoia as been shown by others simply in the original greek means " to change the mind ".

In Jesus and Paul's day the word would be used in a sentence like this. " I was going to the synagogue but I metanoia (changed my mind ) and went to the market."

There are "fruits" of repentance ( changing the mind ) as in the case above...the person "went to the market". ( every fiber of my being wants to say..."and this little piggy stayed home".....but I will refrain )

To us it means to change our mind to stop relying on ourselves and our thinking and turn to God. Stop living our own life with our own thinking and come to Christ and let His life live through and in you. Receive all that Jesus did for us in His finished work.

We should be repenting ( changing how we think towards something ) constantly as we see the Lord's true nature, love and grace revealed to and in us.

There will always be "fruits" of having a changed mind ( having repented ) to God but the "fruit" is not the repentance within itself. True repentance is the "root" before the "fruit" comes.

The fruit will manifest itself in the form of having a changed heart because we are a new creation in Christ. This will also show in behavior as the life of Christ transforms our outward life to reflect what has already happened in our inner man - that new creation in Christ.

Sometimes our religious traditions can "hi-jack" the meanings of words and can present false assumptions.

Anyone that is interested can listen to examples of this in the video below...it'll bless you and you will fall deeper in love with our Lord as we learn more of Him and we will live a lifelong journey of repentance.

[video=vimeo;142883678]https://vimeo.com/142883678[/video]

 

[PilgrimPassingThru]

Without sanctification there is no salvation. Our sanctification is very much affected by what we do.

He does sanctify us, however, it does show abstaining is in the very will of God as it pertains to our sanctification

1 Thes 4:3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication .

And that as it pertains to fornication (and also of the necessary things as from the start) Acts 15:20, Acts 15:29, 1 Thes 4:3

As abstaining from such in our sanctification is also the will of the Father

Even as Jesus said,

Mat 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

Again

1 Thes 4:3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication.

So doing something, can be abstaining from the same, seeing Paul says,

1 Cr 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

1 Cr 6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

And without denial,

1 Cr 6:11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

For even while we were yet sinners yet without strength Christ (who is even the power of God) died for us (that even by Him we might live through Him)

As the above speaks of our being washed (in the past) from our former servitude of sin Peter speaks of certain washed and returning (after they have escaped thr pollutions of the world)

2 Peter 2:20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

2 Peter 2:21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them

2 Peter 2:22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

So washed, and turned again, even after the same.

 

[Justcallmetinman]

Of course we repent. We repent constantly when we see truth! As Christians we should be living a life of repentance. Grace is not a license to sin..grace doesn't save us "to" sin but "from" sin.

Repentance doesn't just mean what someone thinks about sin - it means to change our mind - how we think about the Father, the Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit and walking in love. Every time we learn new truths we should be repenting to get our minds renewed to the truth.

I am 100% sure of what the scriptures say. I have lived in the other religious world and I have lived in grace. Grace is the true one. I proudly proclaim the gospel of the grace of Christ.

Of course we repent. We repent constantly when we see truth! As Christians we should be living a life of repentance. Grace is not a license to sin..grace doesn't save us "to" sin but "from" sin.

Repentance doesn't just mean what someone thinks about sin - it means to change our mind - how we think about the Father, the Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit and walking in love. Every time we learn new truths we should be repenting to get our minds renewed to the truth.

I agree with everything you said. Since we are forever learning and growing up IN Christ its perfectly natural to come to new truths and be aware of where we fell short and perhaps sinned.So then we repent because we have a new truth in the renewing of our minds. I agree with you.
God is so good isnt he? I love the LORD. I am thankful that the Holy Spirit is guiding me and teaching me to straighter paths continually

 

[PeterJens]

Peter, What about the blood of Jesus? Do you think the blood really covers all our sins or not? Are we not secured by it? These are the questions that need to be answered on these OSAS threads.

The problem is the same language is being used but with different meanings.

The idea that Jesus lets everyone into heaven without change, without any response, when the whole of the message with Israel was this was Gods terms and way of approaching Him. The only difference was it was with sacrifices of animals and not Jesus. Jesus fulfilled this, became the final sacrifice, that all that went before was the preparation.

To then conclude Jesus changes salvation and Gods way of dealing with mankind is a false gospel. God does not suddenly freely open the doors wide when he was difficult and argumentative before. People want this to be true, because it makes things simpler, which is why God spent so much effort preparing and working through Israel to the right point in history.

 

[Grace777x70]

2 Peter Chapter 2 is all about false prophets and false teachers as stated in verse 1. So all of chapter 2 is devoted to talking about them. Even "if" it was talking about believers - no where does it say that they go to hell.

Here is a study done by mailmandan on 2 Peter 2 - when you take all of 2 Peter into context. Context is important as we can get scriptures to say what we want by " putting them in a flow " to make it "appear" they are saying something which they may not be by just looking at one scripture not in context.

from mailmandan

"2 Peter 2:20 - Those who are truly born of God have received a new nature, a divine nature, and they have new and different appetites and desires. They have been transformed from pigs and dogs into sheep. The change is more than just cosmetic, as in 2 Peter 2:20. *These cleaned up on the outside dogs and pigs were never sheep.

*Compare 2 Peter 1:4 - "partakers of the divine nature," having escaped the corruption - Strongs #5356 that is in the world through lust with 2 Peter 2:20 - with they escaped the pollutions - Strongs #3356 (different Greek word) of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, yet they are again entangled therein, and overcome. *Notice that 2 Peter 2:20 did not mention them being "partakers of the divine nature."

Corruption (Strongs #5356) (to shrivel or wither, spoil , ruin , deprave, corrupt , defile, to destroy by means of corrupting, to spoil as does milk). Corruption - describes decomposition or rotting of an organism and the accompanying stench. The utter depravity of the fallen flesh and the resultant moral decomposition of the world opposed to God is driven by it sinful lusts or evil desires. Internal corruption.

Pollutions/Defilements (Strongs #3393) ("pollutions", "filthy things", "contaminations", "world's filth") describes the state of being tainted or stained by evil and refers to impurity, impure, tainted, defilement, foulness or pollution. Pollutions/Defilement refers to what is on the outside (2 Peter 2:20). But genuine believers have escaped the "corruption that is in the world through lust" (2 Peter 1:4).

*Corruption is deeper than pollutions/defilements on the outside: it is decay on the inside.

Having the knowledge of Jesus Christ does not save a person if there is no heart submission to that knowledge. The latter end is worse than the beginning for these men because rejecting this knowledge will make them more accountable at the judgment. "

 

[HeRoseFromTheDead]

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You do such good, thorough studies.

He does sanctify us, however, it does show abstaining is in the very will of God as it pertains to our sanctification

1 Thes 4:3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication .

And that as it pertains to fornication (and also of the necessary things as from the start) Acts 15:20, Acts 15:29, 1 Thes 4:3

As abstaining from such in our sanctification is also the will of the Father

Even as Jesus said,

Mat 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

Again

1 Thes 4:3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication.

So doing something, can be abstaining from the same, seeing Paul says,

1 Cr 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

1 Cr 6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

And without denial,

1 Cr 6:11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

For even while we were yet sinners yet without strength Christ (who is even the power of God) died for us (that even by Him we might live through Him)

As the above speaks of our being washed (in the past) from our former servitude of sin Peter speaks of certain washed and returning (after they have escaped thr pollutions of the world)

2 Peter 2:20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

2 Peter 2:21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them

2 Peter 2:22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

So washed, and turned again, even after the same.