Thematic Bible: Union with Christ
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Holiness » Is the result of » Union with Christ
I am praying on behalf of them. I am not praying on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those you have given me, because they belong to you.
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Remain in me, and I will remain in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.
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Union with Christ » Saints » Have, in love
The Beloved about Her Lover: I am my beloved's, and he desires me!
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The Beloved about Her Lover: My lover 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 Christ's body, and each of you is a member of it.
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For just as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body -- though many -- are one body, so too is Christ.
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Union with Christ » Saints » Exhorted to maintain
When he came and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with devoted hearts,
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Remain in me, and I will remain in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.
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rooted and built up in him and firm in your faith just as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Righteousness imputed
and be found in him, not because I have my own righteousness derived from the law, but because I have the righteousness that comes by way of Christ's faithfulness -- a righteousness from God that is in fact based on Christ's faithfulness.
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God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we would become the righteousness of God.
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Union with Christ » Saints » Have, in mind
You should have the same attitude toward one another that Christ Jesus had,
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For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to advise 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 remain in the teaching of Christ does not have God. The one who remains in this teaching has both the Father and the Son.
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If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want, and it will be done for you.
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As for you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.
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Union with Christ » As head of the church
And God put all things under Christ's feet, and he gave him to the church as head over all things.
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But practicing the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ, who is the head. From him the whole body grows, fitted and held together through every supporting ligament. As each one does its part, the body grows in love.
Union with Christ » Saints » Have, in sufferings
If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he will also deny us.
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My aim is to know him, to experience the power of his resurrection, to share in his sufferings, and to be 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 insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.
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I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago (whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows) was caught up to the third heaven.
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Union with Christ » Described as » Christ being in us
God wanted to make known to them the glorious riches 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 through faith, so that, because you have been rooted and grounded in love,
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Union with Christ » Maintained by » Faith
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
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that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, so that, because you have been rooted and grounded in love,
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Union with Christ » Saints » Identified with Christ by
And the king will answer them, 'I tell you the truth, just as you did it for one of the least of these brothers or sisters of mine, you did it for me.'
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Then he will answer them, 'I tell you the truth, just as you did not do it for one of the least of these, you did not do it for me.'
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Union with Christ » Saints » Have, in his death
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
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Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life. For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection. read more.
We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. (For someone who has died has been freed from sin.) Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. (For someone who has died has been freed from sin.) Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
Union with Christ » Includes union with the father
that they will all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray that they will be in us, so that the world will believe that you sent me.
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As for you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.
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Union with Christ » Saints » Enjoy, in the lord's supper
Is not the cup of blessing that we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the bread that we break a sharing in the body of Christ? Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all share the one bread.
Union with Christ » Christ prayed that all saints might have
that they will all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray that they will be in us, so that the world will believe that you sent me.
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I in them and you in me -- that they may be completely one, so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have 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, but someone else builds on it. And each one must be careful how he builds. For no one can lay any foundation other than what is being laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Union with Christ » Maintained by » Abiding in him
If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want, and it will be done for you.
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Remain in me, and I will remain in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.
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Union with Christ » Illustrated » Vine and branches
"I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me -- and I in him -- bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing.
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"I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener.
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Being created anew
So then, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; what is old has passed away -- look, what is new has come!
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Union with Christ » Saints » Have, in spirit
But the one united with the Lord is 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 pass judgment on you. That person goes on at great lengths about what he has supposedly seen, but he is puffed up with empty notions by his fleshly mind. He has not held fast to the head from whom the whole body, supported and knit together through its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.
Union with Christ » Is of God
He is the reason you have a relationship with Christ Jesus, who became for 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 for her to sanctify her by cleansing her with the washing of the water by the word, so that he may present the church to himself as glorious -- not having a stain or wrinkle, or any such blemish, but holy and blameless. read more.
In the same way husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one has ever hated his own body but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also does the church, for we are members of his body. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. This mystery is great -- but I am actually speaking with reference to Christ and the church.
In the same way husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one has ever hated his own body but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also does the church, for we are members of his body. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. This mystery is great -- but I am actually speaking with reference to Christ and the church.
Union with Christ » Necessary to growth in grace
But practicing the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ, who is the head. From him the whole body grows, fitted and held together through every supporting ligament. As each one does its part, the body grows in love.
Union with Christ » Saints » Are complete through
and you have been filled in him, who is the head over every ruler and authority.
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » The spirit alive to righteousness
But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is your life because of righteousness.
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Confidence at his coming
And now, little children, remain in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink away from him in shame when he comes back.
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Union with Christ » Maintained by » Obeying him
And the person who keeps his commandments resides in God, and God in him. Now by this we know that God resides in us: by the Spirit 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 reside in God and he in us: in that he has given us of his Spirit.
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Union with Christ » Necessary to fruitfulness
Remain in me, and I will remain in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me. "I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me -- and I in him -- bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing.
Union with Christ » The holy ghost witnesses
And the person who keeps his commandments resides in God, and God in him. Now by this we know that God resides in us: by the Spirit he has given us.
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Union with Christ » Is indissoluble
Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, 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
Everyone who resides in him does not sin; everyone who sins has neither seen him nor 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
You will know at that time that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.
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Union with Christ » They who have, ought to walk as he walked
The one who says he resides in God ought himself to walk just as Jesus walked.
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Abundant fruitfulness
"I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me -- and I in him -- bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing.
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Union with Christ » Beneficial results of » Answers to prayer
If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want, and it will be done for you.
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Union with Christ » Maintained by » Feeding on him
The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me, and I in him.
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Union with Christ » Punishment of those who have not
If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and are burned up.
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