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 thou hast given me; for they are thine,
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"Abide in me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, no more 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, although they be many, are one body; so also is 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 he encouraged them all to remain faithful to the Lord, with full purpose of heart;
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"Abide in me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, no more can you, unless you abide in me.
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since you are rooted in him, and in him continually built up. Be firmly established in the faith as you were taught it, and continually abound in it with thanksgiving.
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Righteousness imputed
and be found in him; not having my own righteousness of the Law, but that alone which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which comes from God, founded upon faith.
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Him who knew no sin, in our behalf he has made to be sin; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
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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 what man understands the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct Him?
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Union with Christ » Maintained by » His word abiding in us
Whoever is going ahead, and is not abiding in the teachings of Christ, does not possess God; but he who is abiding in the teaching possesses both the Father and the Son.
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"If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatever your will is, and it shall be yours.
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If what you have heard from the beginning is abiding in you, you also will ever abide in the Son and in the Father.
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Union with Christ » As head of the church
God has put all things under Christ's feet, and placed him as Head over all in the church,
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but holding the truth in love we shall grow up in every part into him who is our Head, even Christ. From him the whole body (knit together and compacted by all its joints) makes continual growth of the body so as to build itself up in love, through the energy of his bounteous provision, according to the need of each several part.
Union with Christ » Saints » Have, in sufferings
If we endure suffering, we shall also reign with him. If we disown him, he too will disown us.
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I long to know him in the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, by sharing the likeness of 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 granted us and understanding, so that we may come to know him who is true. And we are in him who is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and life eternal.
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I know a Christian man who, fourteen years ago (whether in the body I know not, or out of the body, I know not. God knows), was caught up??his man of whom I speak??ven into the third heaven.
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Union with Christ » Described as » Christ being in us
To them God willed to make known among the Gentiles how glorious are the riches of that secret truth, which is "Christ in you, the hope of glory."
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that Christ may make his home in your hearts through your faith; that you may be so deeply rooted and so firmly grounded in love,
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Union with Christ » Maintained by » Faith
I have been crucified with Christ, so it is no longer I who am living, but it is Christ who is living in me; and the life I am now living in the flesh, I am living in faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.
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that Christ may make his home in your hearts through your faith; that you may be so deeply rooted and so firmly grounded in love,
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Union with Christ » Saints » Identified with Christ by
"'In solemn truth I tell you,' the King will answer them, 'that inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of these, my brothers, you have done it unto me.'
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"But he will reply, 'In solemn truth I tell you that inasmuch as you did not do it unto one of these least, you did not do it unto me.'
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Union with Christ » Saints » Have, in his death
I have been crucified with Christ, so it is no longer I who am living, but it is Christ who is living in me; and the life I am now living in the flesh, I am living in faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.
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For do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Jesus Christ, have been baptized into his death? We have been buried together with him, then, through baptism into his death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we should live in a newness of life. For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, so we shall also be united with him in the likeness of his resurrection. read more.
For this we know, that our old self was crucified with Christ, in order that the slave of sin might be destroyed; so that we should no longer be in slavery to sin??7 for he who is dead is set free from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;
For this we know, that our old self was crucified with Christ, in order that the slave of sin might be destroyed; so that we should no longer be in slavery to sin??7 for he who is dead is set free from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;
Union with Christ » Includes union with the father
that they may all be one, even as thou, Father, art in me and I in thee; that they also may be in us; in order that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
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If what you have heard from the beginning is abiding in you, you also will ever 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 common participation in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a common participation in the body of Christ? Because we who are many are one bread, one body, for we all do share in the one loaf.
Union with Christ » Christ prayed that all saints might have
that they may all be one, even as thou, Father, art in me and I in thee; that they also may be in us; in order that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
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I in them and thou in me; that they may be made perfectly one, so that the world may recognize that thou didst send me, and hast loved them as thou hast loved me.
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Union with Christ » Illustrated » Foundation and building
According to the grace of God vouchsafed me, like a skillful master-builder, I have laid a foundation; but another will be building upon it. Let each take heed how he builds on it. The foundation is already laid??esus Christ??nd no man can lay another.
Union with Christ » Maintained by » Abiding in him
"If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatever your will is, and it shall be yours.
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"Abide in me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, no more 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, bears abundant fruit; because apart from me you can do nothing.
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"I am the vine, and my Father the vine-grower.
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Being created anew
So there is a new creation when any man is in Christ. The old life has passed away, behold, the new is come.
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Union with Christ » Saints » Have, in spirit
While a man who is united with the Lord is one with Him in spirit?
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Union with Christ » False teachers have not
Let no man at his will defraud you of your prize through his false humility and worship of the angels, taking his stand on the visions he has seen, and vainly puffed up by his material mind; instead of keeping connection with the Head from the whole body draws nourishment for all its needs by the joints which bind it; and is knit together, and grows with a divine growth.
Union with Christ » Is of God
It is of him that you are in Christ Jesus, whom God 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, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her, in order that after cleansing her in the bath of baptism, he might sanctify her by his word, so as to present her to himself, the church glorified, without spot or wrinkle or any such blemish; but on the contrary holy and faultless. read more.
That is how husbands ought to love their wives, as they love their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it as Christ does the church; for we are members of his body. For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. There is a deep mystery here?? am speaking of Christ and his church.
That is how husbands ought to love their wives, as they love their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it as Christ does the church; for we are members of his body. For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. There is a deep mystery here?? am speaking of Christ and his church.
Union with Christ » Necessary to growth in grace
but holding the truth in love we shall grow up in every part into him who is our Head, even Christ. From him the whole body (knit together and compacted by all its joints) makes continual growth of the body so as to build itself up in love, through the energy of his bounteous provision, according to the need of each several part.
Union with Christ » Saints » Are complete through
and in him you have your fulness, and he is the Lord of all the principalities and powers.
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » The spirit alive to righteousness
But if Christ is in you, though your bodily self is dead because of sin, your spirit is full of life because of righteousness.
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Confidence at his coming
And now continue to abide in him, my children, so that when he shall appear we may have cheerful confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
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Union with Christ » Maintained by » Obeying him
He who keeps his commandments is abiding in Him, and Christ in him. By this we know that Christ is abiding in us, by the Spirit which he has given us.
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Union with Christ » The gift of the holy ghost is an evidence of
By this we come to know that we are abiding 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. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, no more can you, unless you abide in me. "I am the Vine you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him, bears abundant fruit; because apart from me you can do nothing.
Union with Christ » The holy ghost witnesses
He who keeps his commandments is abiding in Him, and Christ in him. By this we know that Christ is abiding in us, by the Spirit which he has given us.
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Union with Christ » Is indissoluble
What shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall anguish, or calamity, or persecution, or famine? Shall nakedness, or peril, or sword?
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Freedom from dominion of sin
Whoever continually abides in him does not habitually sin; whoever lives in sin has not seen him, nor come to know him.
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Freedom from condemnation
Thus there is now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus;
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Union with Christ » Saints » Have assurance of
"At that day you shall understand 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
By who says he "remains in him" ought to spend his life as he spent his.
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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, bears abundant 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, ask whatever your will is, and it shall be yours.
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Union with Christ » Maintained by » Feeding on him
"He who feeds upon my flesh abides in me and I in him.
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Union with Christ » Punishment of those who have not
"If any one does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers. Such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire and burned.
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