Thematic Bible: Union with Christ
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Holiness » Is the result of » Union with Christ
I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.
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Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.
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Union with Christ » Saints » Have, in love
Union with Christ » Illustrated » Body and members
Now you are the body of Christ, and individually members of it.
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For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so it is with 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 them all to remain true to the Lord with all their hearts;
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Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.
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rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, overflowing with thanksgiving.
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Righteousness imputed
and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christthe righteousness that comes from God and is by faith,
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For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
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Union with Christ » Saints » Have, in mind
Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus,
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"For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.
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Union with Christ » Maintained by » His word abiding in us
Anyone who runs ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ does not have God; he who abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.
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If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.
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Let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.
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Union with Christ » As head of the church
And he put all things under his feet and gave him to be the head over all things for the church,
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But speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into him, who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, being joined and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each part, causes the growth of the body and builds itself up in love.
Union with Christ » Saints » Have, in sufferings
if we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us;
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that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming like him in 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, 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.
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I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows.
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Union with Christ » Described as » Christ being in us
To them 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,
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Union with Christ » Maintained by » Faith
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself 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,
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Union with Christ » Saints » Identified with Christ by
And the King will answer them, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.'
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Then he will answer them, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.'
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Union with Christ » Saints » Have, in his death
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh 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 were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. read more.
We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him.
We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him.
Union with Christ » Includes union with the father
that they all may be one, as you, Father, are in me, and I in you; that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that you sent me.
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Let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you also will abide 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 which we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? Because 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
that they all may be one, as you, Father, are in me, and I in you; that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that you sent me.
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I in them, and you in me; that they may become perfectly one, and that the world may know that you have sent me, and have loved them even as you have loved me.
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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 other foundation can any one lay than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Union with Christ » Maintained by » Abiding in him
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.
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Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.
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Union with Christ » Illustrated » Vine and branches
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.
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"I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Being created anew
Therefore, if any one is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, behold, the new has come.
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Union with Christ » Saints » Have, in spirit
But he who unites himself with the Lord is one spirit with him.
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Union with Christ » False teachers have not
Let no one disqualify you for the prize by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, puffed up without cause by his fleshly mind, and not holding fast to the head, from whom the whole body, nourished and held together by its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.
Union with Christ » Is of God
It is because of him that 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 loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that he might present the church to himself in all her glory, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and blameless. read more.
So husbands ought also to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his 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 be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." This is a profound mystery; but I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.
So husbands ought also to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his 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 be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." This is a profound mystery; but I am saying that it refers 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, into Christ, from whom the whole body, being joined and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each part, causes the growth of the body and builds itself up in love.
Union with Christ » Saints » Are complete through
and you have been made complete in him, who is the head over all rule and authority.
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » The spirit alive to righteousness
But if Christ is in you, although your body is dead because of sin, your spirit is alive because of righteousness.
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Confidence at his coming
And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
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Union with Christ » Maintained by » Obeying him
Now those who keep his commandments abide in him, and he in them. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.
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Union with Christ » The gift of the holy ghost is an evidence of
By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
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Union with Christ » Necessary to fruitfulness
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, 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
Now those who keep his commandments abide in him, and he in them. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.
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Union with Christ » Is indissoluble
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Freedom from dominion of sin
No one who abides in him sins. No one who sins has either seen him or known him.
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Freedom from condemnation
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
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Union with Christ » Saints » Have assurance of
In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
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Union with Christ » They who have, ought to walk as he walked
he who says he abides in him ought to walk as he walked.
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Abundant fruitfulness
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.
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Answers to prayer
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.
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Union with Christ » Maintained by » Feeding on him
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.
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Union with Christ » Punishment of those who have not
If anyone does not abide in me, he is like a branch that is cast away and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire and burned.
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