Thematic Bible: Union with Christ
Thematic Bible
Holiness » Is the result of » Union with Christ
Union with Christ » Saints » Have, in love
And his
Union with Christ » Illustrated » Body and members
Now you are Christ’s body, and individually members of it.
For even as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ.
Union with Christ » Saints » Exhorted to maintain
Then when he arrived and witnessed the grace of God, he rejoiced and began to encourage them all with resolute heart to remain true to the Lord;
having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude.
Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Righteousness imputed
and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith,
He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
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Union with Christ » Saints » Have, in mind
For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he will instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.
Union with Christ » Maintained by » His word abiding in us
As for you, let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.
Union with Christ » As head of the church
And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church,
but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.
Union with Christ » Saints » Have, in sufferings
If we
that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death;
Union with Christ » Described as » Our being in Christ
And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago—whether in the body I do not know, or out of the body I do not know, God knows—such a man was caught up to the third heaven.
Union with Christ » Described as » Christ being in us
to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
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so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
Union with Christ » Maintained by » Faith
I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
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so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
Union with Christ » Saints » Identified with Christ by
Union with Christ » Saints » Have, in his death
I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
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Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, read more.
knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is freed from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is freed from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
Union with Christ » Includes union with the father
As for you, let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.
Union with Christ » Saints » Enjoy, in the lord's supper
Is not the cup of blessing which we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the bread which we break a sharing in the body of Christ? Since there is one bread, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one bread.
Union with Christ » Christ prayed that all saints might have
Union with Christ » Illustrated » Foundation and building
According to the grace of God which was given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But each man must be careful how he builds on it. For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Union with Christ » Maintained by » Abiding in him
Union with Christ » Illustrated » Vine and branches
Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Being created anew
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.
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Union with Christ » Saints » Have, in spirit
But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him.
Union with Christ » False teachers have not
Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind, and not holding fast to the head, from whom the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and ligaments, grows with a growth which is from God.
Union with Christ » Is of God
But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,
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Union with Christ » Illustrated » Husband and wife
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless. read more.
So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, because we are members of His body. FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND SHALL BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH. This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.
So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, because we are members of His body. FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND SHALL BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH. This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.
Union with Christ » Necessary to growth in grace
but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.
Union with Christ » Saints » Are complete through
and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority;
Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » The spirit alive to righteousness
Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Confidence at his coming
Now, little children, abide in Him, so that when He appears, we may have confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame at His coming.
Union with Christ » Maintained by » Obeying him
The one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. We know by this that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.
Union with Christ » The gift of the holy ghost is an evidence of
Union with Christ » Necessary to fruitfulness
"Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. "I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.
Union with Christ » The holy ghost witnesses
The one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. We know by this that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.
Union with Christ » Is indissoluble
Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Freedom from dominion of sin
No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or knows Him.
Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Freedom from condemnation
Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
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Union with Christ » Saints » Have assurance of
Union with Christ » They who have, ought to walk as he walked
the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked.