Thematic Bible: Union with Christ
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Holiness » Is the result of » Union with Christ
I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world now, but only for those whom you have given me, because they are yours --
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You must remain in union with me and I will remain in union with you. Just as no branch by itself can bear fruit unless it remains united to the vine, so you cannot unless you remain in union with me.
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Union with Christ » Saints » Have, in love
Union with Christ » Illustrated » Body and members
So you are Christ's body, and individually parts of it.
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For just as the human body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, many as they are, constitute but one body, so it is with Christ.
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Union with Christ » Saints » Exhorted to maintain
When he reached there and saw the spiritual blessing God had given them, he was delighted, and continuously encouraged them all with hearty purpose to continue to be devoted to the Lord;
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You must remain in union with me and I will remain in union with you. Just as no branch by itself can bear fruit unless it remains united to the vine, so you cannot unless you remain in union with me.
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with your roots deeply planted in Him, being continuously built up in Him, and growing stronger in faith, just as you were taught to do, overflowing through it in your gratitude.
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Righteousness imputed
and be actually in union with Him, not having a supposed right standing with God which depends on my doing what the law commands, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the real right standing with God which originates from Him and rests on faith.
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He made Him who personally knew nothing of sin to be a sin-offering for us, so that through union with Him we might come into right standing with God.
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Union with Christ » Saints » Have, in mind
Keep on fostering the same disposition that Christ Jesus had.
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For who has ever known the Lord's thoughts, so that he can instruct Him? But we now possess Christ's thoughts.
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Union with Christ » Maintained by » His word abiding in us
No one has God, who goes too far and fails to stay by the teaching of Christ. Whoever stays by this teaching has the Father and the Son.
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If you remain in union with me and my words remain in you, you may ask whatever you please and you shall have it.
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Let what you have heard from the beginning continue to live in your hearts; if you do, you will always remain in union with the Son and the Father.
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Union with Christ » As head of the church
And so He has put all things under His feet and made Him the supreme Head of the church,
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But, on the other hand, we shall go on holding to the truth and in love growing up into perfect union with Him, that is, Christ Himself who is the Head. For it is under His direction that the whole body is perfectly adjusted and united by every joint that furnishes its supplies; and by the proper functioning of each particular part there is brought about the growing of the body for its building up in love.
Union with Christ » Saints » Have, in sufferings
"If we patiently endure, we will reign with Him too. If we disown Him, He will disown us too.
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Yes, I long to come to know Him; that is, the power of His resurrection and so to share with Him his sufferings as to be continuously transformed by 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 insight to recognize the True One; and we are in union with the True One through His Son, Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
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I know a man in union with Christ fourteen years ago -- whether in the body or out of it, I do not know, but God knows -- who was caught up to the third heaven.
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Union with Christ » Described as » Christ being in us
to whom God has chosen to make known how glorious are the riches of this open secret among the heathen, namely, Christ in you the hope of your glorification.
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and that Christ in His love, through your faith, may make His permanent home in your hearts. You must be deeply rooted, your foundations must be strong,
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Union with Christ » Maintained by » Faith
I have been crucified with Christ, and I myself no longer live, but Christ is living in me; the life I now live as a mortal man I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.
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and that Christ in His love, through your faith, may make His permanent home in your hearts. You must be deeply rooted, your foundations must be strong,
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Union with Christ » Saints » Identified with Christ by
And the King will answer them, 'I solemnly say to you, every time you did a good deed to one of these most insignificant brothers of mine, you did a good deed to me.'
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Then He will answer, 'I solemnly say to you, every time you failed to do a good deed to one of these most insignificant people, you failed to do a good deed to me.'
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Union with Christ » Saints » Have, in his death
I have been crucified with Christ, and I myself no longer live, but Christ is living in me; the life I now live as a mortal man I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.
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Or, do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into union with Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? So through baptism we have been buried with Him in death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father's glorious power, so we too should live an entirely new life. For if we have grown into fellowship with Him by sharing a death like His, surely we shall share a resurrection life like His, read more.
for we know that our former self was crucified with Him, to make our body that is liable to sin inactive, so that we might not a moment longer continue to be slaves to sin. For when a man is dead, he is freed from the claims of sin. So if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
for we know that our former self was crucified with Him, to make our body that is liable to sin inactive, so that we might not a moment longer continue to be slaves to sin. For when a man is dead, he is freed from the claims of sin. So if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
Union with Christ » Includes union with the father
for them all to be one, just as you, Father, are in union with me and I in union with you, for them to be in union with us, so that the world may be convinced that you have sent me.
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Let what you have heard from the beginning continue to live in your hearts; if you do, you will always remain in union with the Son and the Father.
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Union with Christ » Saints » Enjoy, in the lord's supper
Is not the consecrated cup which we consecrate a sign of our sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the loaf which we break a sign of our sharing in the body of Christ? Because there is only one loaf, so we, though many, are only one body, for we all partake of one loaf.
Union with Christ » Christ prayed that all saints might have
for them all to be one, just as you, Father, are in union with me and I in union with you, for them to be in union with us, so that the world may be convinced that you have sent me.
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I in union with them and you in union with me, so that they may be perfectly united, and the world may be sure that you sent me and that you have loved them just as you have loved me.
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Union with Christ » Illustrated » Foundation and building
As a skilled architect, in accordance with God's unmerited favor given to me, I laid a foundation, and now another is building upon it. But every builder must be careful how he builds upon it; for no one can lay any other foundation than the one that is laid, that is, Jesus Christ Himself.
Union with Christ » Maintained by » Abiding in him
If you remain in union with me and my words remain in you, you may ask whatever you please and you shall have it.
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You must remain in union with me and I will remain in union with you. Just as no branch by itself can bear fruit unless it remains united to the vine, so you cannot unless you remain in union with me.
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Union with Christ » Illustrated » Vine and branches
I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in union with me and I in union with him will bear abundant fruit, because you cannot do anything cut off from union with me.
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"I am the real vine, and my Father is the cultivator.
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Being created anew
For if anybody is in union with Christ, he is the work of a new creation; the old condition has passed away, a new condition has come.
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Union with Christ » Saints » Have, in spirit
But the man who is in union with the Lord is spiritually one with Him.
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Union with Christ » False teachers have not
Stop letting anyone, in gratuitous humility and worship of angels, defraud you as an umpire, for such a one is taking his stand on the mere visions he has seen, and is groundlessly conceited over his sensuous mind. Such a person is not continuing in connection with the Head, from which the whole body, when supplied and united through its joints and sinews, grows with a growth that God produces.
Union with Christ » Is of God
So you owe it all to Him through union with Christ Jesus, whom God has made our wisdom, our means of right standing, our consecration, and our redemption,
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Union with Christ » Illustrated » Husband and wife
You married men must love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her, to consecrate her, after cleansing her through His word, as pictured in the water bath, that He might present the church to Himself as a splendid bride without a blot or wrinkle or anything like it, but to be consecrated and faultless. read more.
This is the way married men ought to love their wives, as they do their own bodies. The married man who loves his wife is really loving himself, for no one ever hates his own physical person, but he feeds and fosters it, just as Christ does the church; because we are parts of His body. Therefore, a man must leave his father and mother and so perfectly unite himself to his wife that the two shall be one. This is a great secret; I mean this about Christ and the church.
This is the way married men ought to love their wives, as they do their own bodies. The married man who loves his wife is really loving himself, for no one ever hates his own physical person, but he feeds and fosters it, just as Christ does the church; because we are parts of His body. Therefore, a man must leave his father and mother and so perfectly unite himself to his wife that the two shall be one. This is a great secret; I mean this about Christ and the church.
Union with Christ » Necessary to growth in grace
But, on the other hand, we shall go on holding to the truth and in love growing up into perfect union with Him, that is, Christ Himself who is the Head. For it is under His direction that the whole body is perfectly adjusted and united by every joint that furnishes its supplies; and by the proper functioning of each particular part there is brought about the growing of the body for its building up in love.
Union with Christ » Saints » Are complete through
and through union with Him you too are filled with it. He is the Head of all principalities and dominions.
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » The spirit alive to righteousness
But if Christ lives in you, although your bodies must die because of sin, your spirits are now enjoying life because of right standing with God.
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Confidence at his coming
And now, dear children, I repeat, you must continue to live in union with Him, so that if He is unveiled, we may have unshaken confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame when He comes.
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Union with Christ » Maintained by » Obeying him
Whoever practices obedience to His commands remains in union with Him and He in union with him; and in this way we know that He remains in union with us, by the Spirit that He has given us.
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Union with Christ » The gift of the holy ghost is an evidence of
By the fact that He has given us a portion of His Spirit we can be sure that we remain in union with Him and He in union with us.
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Union with Christ » Necessary to fruitfulness
You must remain in union with me and I will remain in union with you. Just as no branch by itself can bear fruit unless it remains united to the vine, so you cannot unless you remain in union with me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in union with me and I in union with him will bear abundant fruit, because you cannot do anything cut off from union with me.
Union with Christ » The holy ghost witnesses
Whoever practices obedience to His commands remains in union with Him and He in union with him; and in this way we know that He remains in union with us, by the Spirit that He has given us.
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Union with Christ » Is indissoluble
Who can separate us from Christ's love? Can suffering or misfortune or persecution or hunger or destitution or danger or the sword?
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Freedom from dominion of sin
No one who continues to live in union with Him practices sin. No one who practices sin has ever seen Him or come to know Him.
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Freedom from condemnation
So then there is no condemnation at all for those who are in union with Christ Jesus.
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Union with Christ » Saints » Have assurance of
At that time you will know that I am in union with my Father and you are in union with me and I am in union with you.
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Union with Christ » They who have, ought to walk as he walked
Whoever claims, "I am always in union with Him," ought to live as He lived.
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Abundant fruitfulness
I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in union with me and I in union with him will bear abundant fruit, because you cannot do anything cut off from union with me.
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Answers to prayer
If you remain in union with me and my words remain in you, you may ask whatever you please and you shall have it.
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Union with Christ » Maintained by » Feeding on him
Whoever continues to eat my flesh and drink my blood continues to live in union with me and I in union with him.
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Union with Christ » Punishment of those who have not
If anyone does not remain in union with me, he is thrown away as a mere branch and is dried up; then it is picked up and thrown into the fire and burned up.
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