Thematic Bible: Union with Christ
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Holiness » Is the result of » Union with Christ
Union with Christ » Saints » Have, in love
he feeds among the lilies.
Union with Christ » Illustrated » Body and members
Now you are the body of Christ, and individual members of it.
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For as the body is one and has many parts, and all the parts of that body, though many, are one body—so also is Christ.
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Union with Christ » Saints » Exhorted to maintain
When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he was glad and encouraged all of them to remain true to the Lord with a firm resolve of the heart,
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rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, overflowing with gratitude.
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Righteousness imputed
and be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own from the law, but one that is through faith in Christ—the righteousness from God based on faith.
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He made the One who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
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Union with Christ » Saints » Have, in mind
Make your own attitude that of Christ Jesus,
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For
who has known the Lord’s mind,
that he may instruct Him?
But we have the mind of Christ.
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that he may instruct Him?
But we have the mind of Christ.
Union with Christ » Maintained by » His word abiding in us
Anyone who does not remain in Christ’s teaching but goes beyond it, does not have God. The one who remains in that teaching, this one has both the Father and the Son.
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What you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you have heard from the beginning remains in you, then you will remain in the Son and in the Father.
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Union with Christ » As head of the church
And He put everything under His feet and appointed Him as head over everything for the church,
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But speaking the truth in love, let us grow in every way into Him who is the head-Christ. From Him the whole body, fitted and knit together by every supporting ligament, promotes the growth of the body for building up itself in love by the proper working of each individual part.
Union with Christ » Saints » Have, in sufferings
if we deny Him, He will also deny us;
My goal is to know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,
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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 the true One. We are in the true One—that is, in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
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I know a man in Christ who was caught up into the third heaven 14 years ago. Whether he was in the body or out of the body, I don’t know, God knows.
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Union with Christ » Described as » Christ being in us
God wanted to make known among the Gentiles the glorious wealth of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
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and that the Messiah may dwell in your hearts through faith. I pray that you, being rooted and firmly established in love,
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Union with Christ » Maintained by » Faith
and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
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and that the Messiah may dwell in your hearts through faith. I pray that you, being rooted and firmly established in love,
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Union with Christ » Saints » Identified with Christ by
Union with Christ » Saints » Have, in his death
and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
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Or are you unaware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in a new way of life. For if we have been joined with Him in the likeness of His death, we will certainly also be in the likeness of His resurrection. read more.
For we know that our old self was crucified with Him in order that sin's dominion over the body may be abolished, so that we may no longer be enslaved to sin, since a person who has died is freed from sin's claims. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him,
For we know that our old self was crucified with Him in order that sin's dominion over the body may be abolished, so that we may no longer be enslaved to sin, since a person who has died is freed from sin's claims. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him,
Union with Christ » Includes union with the father
What you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you have heard from the beginning remains in you, then you will remain in the Son and in the Father.
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Union with Christ » Saints » Enjoy, in the lord's supper
The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Christ? Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for all of us share that one bread.
Union with Christ » Christ prayed that all saints might have
Union with Christ » Illustrated » Foundation and building
According to God's grace that was given to me, as a skilled master builder I have laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But each one must be careful how he builds on it, because no one can lay any other foundation than what has been laid-that 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 creation; old things have passed away, and look, new things have come.
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Union with Christ » Saints » Have, in spirit
But anyone joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.
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Union with Christ » False teachers have not
Let no one disqualify you, insisting on ascetic practices and the worship of angels, claiming access to a visionary realm and inflated without cause by his fleshly mind. He doesn't hold on to the head, from whom the whole body, nourished and held together by its ligaments and tendons, develops with growth from God.
Union with Christ » Is of God
But it is from Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became God-given wisdom for us—our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption,
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Union with Christ » Illustrated » Husband and wife
Husbands, love your wives, just as also Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her, to make her holy, cleansing her in the washing of water by the word. He did this to present the church to Himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but holy and blameless. read more.
In the same way, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hates his own flesh, but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church, since we are members of His body. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. This mystery is profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church.
In the same way, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hates his own flesh, but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church, since we are members of His body. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. This mystery is profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church.
Union with Christ » Necessary to growth in grace
But speaking the truth in love, let us grow in every way into Him who is the head-Christ. From Him the whole body, fitted and knit together by every supporting ligament, promotes the growth of the body for building up itself in love by the proper working of each individual part.
Union with Christ » Saints » Are complete through
and you have been filled by Him, who is the head over every ruler and authority.
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » The spirit alive to righteousness
Now if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Confidence at his coming
So now, little children, remain in Him, so that when He appears we may have boldness and not be ashamed before Him at His coming.
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Union with Christ » Maintained by » Obeying him
The one who keeps His commands remains in Him, and He in him. And the way we know that He remains in us is from the Spirit He has given us.
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Union with Christ » The gift of the holy ghost is an evidence of
This is how we know that we remain in Him and He in us: He has given assurance to us from His Spirit.
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Union with Christ » Necessary to fruitfulness
Remain in Me, and I in you. Just as a branch is unable to produce fruit by itself unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me. "I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in Me and I in him produces much fruit, because you can do nothing without Me.
Union with Christ » The holy ghost witnesses
The one who keeps His commands remains in Him, and He in him. And the way we know that He remains in us is from the Spirit He has given us.
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Union with Christ » Is indissoluble
Can affliction
or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Freedom from dominion of sin
Everyone who remains in Him does not sin; everyone who sins has not seen Him or known Him.
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Freedom from condemnation
Therefore, no condemnation now exists for those 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 remains in Him should walk just as He walked.
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