Thematic Bible: Union with Christ
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Holiness » Is the result of » Union with Christ
I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them that 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 of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can you, except you abide in me.
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Union with Christ » Saints » Have, in love
I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.
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My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feeds his flock among the lilies.
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Union with Christ » Illustrated » Body and members
Now you are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
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For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
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Union with Christ » Saints » Exhorted to maintain
Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cling unto the Lord.
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Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can you, except you abide in me.
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Rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Righteousness imputed
And be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
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For he has made him, who knew no sin, to be sin for us; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
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Union with Christ » Saints » Have, in mind
Let this mind be in you, 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
Whoever goes beyond, and abides not in the doctrine of Christ, has not God. He that abides in the doctrine of Christ, he has both the Father and the Son.
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If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you.
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Let that therefore abide in you, which you have heard from the beginning. If that which you have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, you also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.
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Union with Christ » As head of the church
And has put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
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But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, who is the head, even Christ: From whom the whole body being fitly joined together and knit together by that which every joint supplies, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, makes increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
Union with Christ » Saints » Have, in sufferings
If we suffer, we shall 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, being made conformable unto his death;
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Union with Christ » Described as » Our being in Christ
And we know that the Son of God is come, and has given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
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I knew a man in Christ fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knows;) such a one caught up to the third heaven.
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Union with Christ » Described as » Christ being in us
To whom God would 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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That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
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Union with Christ » Maintained by » Faith
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
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That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
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Union with Christ » Saints » Identified with Christ by
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Since you have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me.
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Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Since you did it not to one of the least of these, you did it not to me.
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Union with Christ » Saints » Have, in his death
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
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Know you not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that just as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: read more.
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we should no longer serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin. Now if we are dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we should no longer serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin. Now if we are dead 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 one in us: that the world may believe that you have sent me.
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Let that therefore abide in you, which you have heard from the beginning. If that which you have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, you also shall continue 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 the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that 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 one in us: that the world may believe that you have sent me.
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I in them, and you in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that you have sent me, and have loved them, as you have loved me.
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Union with Christ » Illustrated » Foundation and building
According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds thereon. But let every man take heed how he builds thereupon. For no other foundation can a man lay than what 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, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you.
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Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can you, except you abide in me.
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Union with Christ » Illustrated » Vine and branches
I am the vine, you are the branches: He that abides in me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing.
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I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine dresser.
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Being created anew
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
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Union with Christ » Saints » Have, in spirit
But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
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Union with Christ » False teachers have not
Let no man deceive you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshiping of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, And not holding the Head, from whom all the body by joints and ligaments having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increases with the increase of God.
Union with Christ » Is of God
And of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
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Union with Christ » Illustrated » Husband and wife
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. read more.
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Union with Christ » Necessary to growth in grace
But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, who is the head, even Christ: From whom the whole body being fitly joined together and knit together by that which every joint supplies, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, makes increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
Union with Christ » Saints » Are complete through
And you are complete in him, who is the head of all principality and power:
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » The spirit alive to righteousness
And if Christ be 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
And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
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Union with Christ » Maintained by » Obeying him
And he that keeps his commandments dwells in him, and he 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 dwell 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 of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can you, except you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches: He that abides in me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing.
Union with Christ » The holy ghost witnesses
And he that keeps his commandments dwells in him, and he 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 peril, or sword?
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Freedom from dominion of sin
Whosoever abides in him sins not: whosoever sins has not seen him, neither known him.
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Freedom from condemnation
There is therefore now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
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Union with Christ » Saints » Have assurance of
At that day you shall 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 that says he abides in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Abundant fruitfulness
I am the vine, you are the branches: He that abides in me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit: for without 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 shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you.
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Union with Christ » Maintained by » Feeding on him
He that eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, dwells in me, and I in him.
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Union with Christ » Punishment of those who have not
If a man abides not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
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