Bible Verses About Union With Christ: Necessary to growth in grace

Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in every respect grow up into him who is the head, the Messiah.

Under his control, the whole body is being fitted and held together by the support of every joint, with each part working to fulfill its function; this is how the body grows and builds itself up in love.

They fail to hold to the Head, from whom the whole Body, receiving supply and being held together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God makes it grow.