Thematic Bible: Union with Christ
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Holiness » Is the result of » Union with Christ
"I am asking on their behalf. I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those you gave me, because they are yours.
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"Abide in me, and I will abide in you. Just as the branch cannot produce 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 belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me.
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My beloved belongs to me and I belong to him. He is the one who shepherds his flock among the lilies.
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Union with Christ » Illustrated » Body and members
Now you are the Messiah's body and individual parts of it.
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For just as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, form a single body, so it is with the Messiah.
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Union with Christ » Saints » Exhorted to maintain
When he arrived, he rejoiced to see what the grace of God had done, and with hearty determination he kept encouraging all of them to remain faithful to the Lord,
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"Abide in me, and I will abide in you. Just as the branch cannot produce fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me.
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For you have been rooted in him and are being built up and strengthened in the faith, just as you were taught, while you continue to be thankful.
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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 one that comes through the faithfulness of the Messiah, the righteousness that comes from God and that depends on faith.
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God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that God's righteousness would be produced in us.
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Union with Christ » Saints » Have, in mind
Have the same attitude among yourselves that was also in the Messiah Jesus:
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For "Who has known the mind of the Lord so that he can advise him?" However, we have the mind of the Messiah.
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Union with Christ » Maintained by » His word abiding in us
Everyone who does not remain true to the teaching of the Messiah, but goes beyond it, does not have God. The person who remains true to the teaching of the Messiah has both the Father and the Son.
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"If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you can ask for anything you want, and you'll receive it.
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What you have heard from the beginning must abide in you. If what you have heard from the beginning abides in you, you will also abide in the Son and in the Father.
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Union with Christ » As head of the church
God has put everything under the Messiah's feet and has made him the head of everything for the good of the church,
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Instead, by speaking the truth in love, we will grow up completely and become one with the head, that is, one with the Messiah, in whom the whole body is united and held together by every ligament with which it is supplied. As each individual part does its job, the body builds itself up in love.
Union with Christ » Saints » Have, in sufferings
Enduring, we with him will reign. Who him denies, he will disclaim.
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I want to know the Messiah what his resurrection power is like and what it means to share in his sufferings by becoming like him in his death,
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Union with Christ » Described as » Our being in Christ
We also know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know the true God. We are in union with the one who is true, his Son Jesus the Messiah, who is the true God and eternal life.
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I know a man who belongs to the Messiah. Fourteen years ago whether in his body or outside of his body, I do not know, but God knows that man was snatched away to the third heaven.
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Union with Christ » Described as » Christ being in us
to whom God wanted to make known the glorious riches of this secret among the gentiles which is the Messiah in you, our glorious hope.
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and that the Messiah would make his home in your hearts through faith. Then, having been rooted and grounded in love,
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Union with Christ » Maintained by » Faith
I no longer live, but the Messiah lives in me, and the life that I am now living in this body I live by the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
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and that the Messiah would make his home in your hearts through faith. Then, having been rooted and grounded in love,
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Union with Christ » Saints » Identified with Christ by
The king will answer them, "I tell all of you with certainty, since you did it for one of the least important of these brothers of mine, you did it for me.'
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Then he will say to them, "I tell all of you with certainty, since you didn't do it for one of the least important of these, you didn't do it for me.'
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Union with Christ » Saints » Have, in his death
I no longer live, but the Messiah lives in me, and the life that I am now living in this body I live by the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
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Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into union with the Messiah Jesus were baptized into his death? Therefore, through baptism we were buried with him into his death so that, just as the Messiah was raised from the dead by the Father's glory, we too may live an entirely new life. For if we have become united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. read more.
We know that our old natures were crucified with him so that our sin-laden bodies might be rendered powerless and we might no longer be slaves to sin. For the person who has died has been freed from sin. Now if we have died with the Messiah, we believe that we will also live with him,
We know that our old natures were crucified with him so that our sin-laden bodies might be rendered powerless and we might no longer be slaves to sin. For the person who has died has been freed from sin. Now if we have died with the Messiah, we believe that we will also live with him,
Union with Christ » Includes union with the father
so that they may all be one. Just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be one in us, so that the world may believe that you sent me.
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What you have heard from the beginning must abide in you. If what you have heard from the beginning abides in you, you will also 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 our fellowship in the blood of the Messiah, isn't it? The bread that we break is our fellowship in the body of the Messiah, isn't it? Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body, because all of us eat from the same loaf.
Union with Christ » Christ prayed that all saints might have
so that they may all be one. Just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be one in us, so that the world may believe that you sent me.
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I am in them, and you are in me. May they be completely one, so that the world may know that you sent me and that you have loved them as you loved me.
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Union with Christ » Illustrated » Foundation and building
As an expert builder using the grace that God gave me, I laid the foundation, and someone else is building on it. But each person must be careful how he builds on it. After all, no one can lay any other foundation than the one that is already laid, and that is Jesus the Messiah.
Union with Christ » Maintained by » Abiding in him
"If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you can ask for anything you want, and you'll receive it.
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"Abide in me, and I will abide in you. Just as the branch cannot produce 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. The one who abides in me while I abide in him produces much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.
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"I am the true vine, and my Father is the vintner.
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Being created anew
Therefore, if anyone is in the Messiah, he is a new creation. Old things have disappeared, and look! all things have become new!
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Union with Christ » Saints » Have, in spirit
But the person who unites himself with the Lord becomes one spirit with him.
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Union with Christ » False teachers have not
Let no one who delights in humility and the worship of angels cheat you out of the prize by rejoicing about what he has seen. Such a person is puffed up for no reason by his carnal mind. He does not hold on to the head, from whom the whole body, which is nourished and held together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God enables it.
Union with Christ » Is of God
It is because of God that you are in union with the Messiah Jesus, who for us has become wisdom from God, as well as our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.
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Union with Christ » Illustrated » Husband and wife
Husbands, love your wives as the Messiah loved the church and gave himself for it, so that he might make it holy by cleansing it, washing it with water and the word, and might present the church to himself in all its glory, without a spot or wrinkle or anything of the kind, but holy and without fault. read more.
In the same way, husbands must love their wives as they love their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself. For no one has ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and tenderly cares for it, as the Messiah does the church. For we are parts of his body of his flesh and of his bones. "That is why a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh." This is a great secret, but I am talking about the Messiah and the church.
In the same way, husbands must love their wives as they love their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself. For no one has ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and tenderly cares for it, as the Messiah does the church. For we are parts of his body of his flesh and of his bones. "That is why a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh." This is a great secret, but I am talking about the Messiah and the church.
Union with Christ » Necessary to growth in grace
Instead, by speaking the truth in love, we will grow up completely and become one with the head, that is, one with the Messiah, in whom the whole body is united and held together by every ligament with which it is supplied. As each individual part does its job, the body builds itself up in love.
Union with Christ » Saints » Are complete through
And you have been filled by him, who is the head of every ruler and authority.
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » The spirit alive to righteousness
But if the Messiah is in you, your bodies are dead due to sin, but the spirit is alive due to righteousness.
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Confidence at his coming
Even now, little children, abide in him. Then, when he appears, we will have confidence and will not turn away from him in shame when he comes.
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Union with Christ » Maintained by » Obeying him
The person who keeps his commandments abides in God, and God abides in him. This is how we can be sure that he remains in us: he has given us his Spirit.
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Union with Christ » The gift of the holy ghost is an evidence of
This is how we know that we abide in him and he in us: he has given us his Spirit.
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Union with Christ » Necessary to fruitfulness
"Abide in me, and I will abide in you. Just as the branch cannot produce 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. The one who abides in me while I abide in him produces much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.
Union with Christ » The holy ghost witnesses
The person who keeps his commandments abides in God, and God abides in him. This is how we can be sure that he remains in us: he has given us his Spirit.
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Union with Christ » Is indissoluble
Who will separate us from the Messiah's love? Can trouble, distress, persecution, hunger, nakedness, danger, or a violent death do this?
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Freedom from dominion of sin
No one who remains in union with him keeps on sinning. The one who keeps on sinning hasn't seen him or known him.
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Freedom from condemnation
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in union with the Messiah Jesus.
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Union with Christ » Saints » Have assurance of
At that time, you'll know that I am in my Father, that you are in me, and that I am in you.
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Union with Christ » They who have, ought to walk as he walked
The one who says that he abides in him must live the same way he himself lived.
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Abundant fruitfulness
I am the vine, you are the branches. The one who abides in me while I abide in him produces much fruit, because 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, you can ask for anything you want, and you'll receive it.
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Union with Christ » Maintained by » Feeding on him
The person who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.
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Union with Christ » Punishment of those who have not
Unless a person abides in me, he is thrown away like a pruned branch and dries up. People gather such branches, throw them into a fire, and they are burned up.
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