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 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
I am my beloved's, and his desire is for me.
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My beloved is mine, and I am his; he grazes among the lilies.
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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 many, are one body, so it is with Christ.
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Union with Christ » Saints » Exhorted to maintain
When he came and saw the grace of God, he was glad, and he exhorted them all to remain faithful to the Lord with steadfast purpose,
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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, abounding in 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 comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on 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 mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,
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"For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.
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Union with Christ » Maintained by » His word abiding in us
Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever 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 wish, and it will be done for you.
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Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too 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 as head over all things to the church,
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Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it 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 may share 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, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He 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 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 chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
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so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith--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--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 brothers, you did it to me.'
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Then he will answer them, saying, '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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Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order 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 be united with him in a resurrection like his. read more.
We know that our old selfwas crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
We know that our old selfwas crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
Union with Christ » Includes union with the father
that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
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Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too 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 that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that 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 may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
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I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
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Union with Christ » Illustrated » Foundation and building
According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. For no one can lay a foundation other than that 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 wish, and it will 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. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that 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 anyone 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 is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.
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Union with Christ » False teachers have not
Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions,puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind, and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.
Union with Christ » Is of God
And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
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Union with Christ » Illustrated » Husband and wife
Husbands, love your wives, 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, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. 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 hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body. "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to 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 hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body. "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.
Union with Christ » Necessary to growth in grace
Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.
Union with Christ » Saints » Are complete through
and you have been filled in him, who is the head of 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 the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life 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 shrink from him in shame at his coming.
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Union with Christ » Maintained by » Obeying him
Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. 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. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
Union with Christ » The holy ghost witnesses
Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. 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 danger, or sword?
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Freedom from dominion of sin
No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning 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
whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Abundant fruitfulness
I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that 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 wish, and it will be done for you.
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Union with Christ » Maintained by » Feeding on him
Whoever feeds on 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 thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.
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