Bible Verses About Union With Christ

It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.

“For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one must be careful how he builds.

For no one can lay a foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.

But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit.

Is not the cup of blessing that we bless a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ?

Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf.

The body is a unit, though it is composed of many parts. And although its parts are many, they all form one body. So it is with Christ.

Now you are the body of Christ, and each of you is a member of it.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!

God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of it I do not know, but God knows.

I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church,

which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.

In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord.

so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love,

Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ Himself, who is the head.

From Him the whole body, fitted and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love through the work of each individual part.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her

to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,

and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.

In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.