Who Am I In Christ?
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
And raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.
And if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
And you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority.
Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love
In whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him.
Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:
“For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
By which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.
And to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
He predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus:
And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
For we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you,
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.
Rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
For you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness.
“You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.
But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;
Even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.
Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
And are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
In whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
To the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
You yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority.
Who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”
For if, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins
Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and deacons:
To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father.
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
And, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.
And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.
For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
And who has also put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight
