Now, on the matter of sanctification (of not just believing in Christ but subsequently becoming a worthy disciple) and how it is covered in the scriptures of the New Testament, we have a link between John 8 and Paul's message seems clear in Ephesians 4 (around verse 21) because he speaks of the Ephesians having learned Christ and then what follows parallels John 8 in first dealing with putting away lying then hatred and angry sin but then he starts to go further dealing with theft and later in chapter 5 with immorality. What particularly extends John 8 is that whereas Jesus was speaking to believers before they became fully fledged disciples and before they learned the truth, Paul is dealing with disciples after they have learned the truth (4 verse 21). The main tryth they have learned which leads to the basis of Paul's handling of their prigression to teaching their sanctification is that they are part of one body with eachother - a corpus in Christ - so their duties covering sanctification concern the dealings with each other. In the 1 Thessalonians letter he does make a clearer distinction, yes, between, believing initially then gong on to become sanctified. This does show itself the be the purpose of his letter in chapter 2. "Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and righteously and unblameably we behaved ourselves toward you that believe: as ye know how we dealt with each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging you, and testifying, to the end that ye should walk worthily of God, who calleth you into his own kingdom and glory. And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when ye received from us the word of the message, even the word of God, ye accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also worketh in you that believe." So some sanctification had begun in these disciples. Then he comes back to it in chapter 4 and starts to push home teachings on how to progress with sanctification still further - in parallel to Ephesians 5 he starts to deal with sexuality matters. Neither his previous preaching nor Jesus' John 8 preaching had dealt with this. It seems to be deliberately kept to a later more advanced stage after people know they are part of a corpus of many believers all united in Christ and Christ's truth after the lying and hatred has been put aside which means already they will have the Holy Spirit and be children of God. There might be a big gap. First the believing with truth being found following believing and Holy Spirit coming and then perhaps a gap of years before these advanced matters are dealt with - like foot washing in Jesus' teaching coming after a bath with a gap in between.
