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To be sanctified is to be made holy, by the Holy Spirit. When the Bible talks about sanctification, it is always in the context of how we live, now that we are believers.

Does it say we are sanctified BECAUSE of how we live or we live a certain way BECAUSE we are being sanctified?

Do you have the scripture that says we are sanctified by our works handy?

"Do you have the scripture that says we are sanctified by our works handy? "

Hebrews 10:10 isn't negotiable so there isn't a verse that says works sanctify.

Acts 5:32, though, says that if you don't obey you don't have the Holy Ghost. Can you be sanctified without having the Holy Ghost in your life?

You're the Pope, you decide

In other words, this “being made holy” is not how we get to heaven—Jesus has already accomplished that through his death on the cross, paying for our sins. To be sanctified is to live in thankful response to what Jesus has done. Our faith in Jesus shows in the way we conduct ourselves according to the instruction that God gives us in his Word.

4 Finally, brothers, we instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more. 2 For you know what instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.

17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! (2 Corinthians 5:17)

10 For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. (Ephesians 2:10)

It is simple, Jesus did what was needed, what we absolutely could not do for ourselves. Our belief in this produces a desire to glorify our Lord with good works, this desire is from the work of the Holy Spirit.