Union with Christ
51 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
39 sections
- As Head of the Church
- Beneficial Results of Abundant Fruitfulness
- Beneficial Results of Answers to Prayer
- Beneficial Results of Being Created Anew
- Beneficial Results of Confidence at his Coming
- Beneficial Results of Freedom from Condemnation
- Beneficial Results of Freedom from Dominion of Sin
- Beneficial Results of Righteousness Imputed
- Beneficial Results of The Spirit Alive to Righteousness
- Christ Being in Us
- Christ Prayed That all Saints Might Have
- False Teachers Have Not
- Illustrated: Body and Members
- Illustrated: Foundation and Building
- Illustrated: Husband and Wife
- Illustrated: Vine and Branches
- Includes Union with the Father
- Maintained by Abiding in Him
- Maintained by Faith
- Maintained by Feeding on Him
- Maintained by His Word Abiding in Us
- Maintained by Obeying Him
- Necessary to Fruitfulness
- Necessary to Growth in Grace
- Our Being in Christ
- Punishment of Those Who Have Not
- Saints are Complete Through
- Saints: Enjoy, in the Lord's Supper
- Saints: Exhorted to Maintain
- Saints: Have Assurance of
- Saints: Have, in his Death
- Saints: Have, in Love
- Saints: Have, in Mind
- Saints: Have, in Spirit
- Saints: Have, in Sufferings
- Saints: Identified with Christ By
- The Gift of the Holy Spirit is an Evidence of
- The Holy Spirit Witnesses
- They Who Have, Ought to Walk As he Walked
As Head of the Church
- Ephesians 1:22–23 And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church, …
- Ephesians 4:15–16 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ Himself, who is the head. …
- Colossians 1:18 And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and firstborn from among the dead, so that in all things He may have preeminence.
Beneficial Results of Abundant Fruitfulness
- John 15:5 I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing.
Beneficial Results of Answers to Prayer
- John 15:7 If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
Beneficial Results of Being Created Anew
- 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
Beneficial Results of Confidence at his Coming
- 1 John 2:28 And now, little children, remain in Christ, so that when He appears, we may be confident and unashamed before Him at His coming.
Beneficial Results of Freedom from Condemnation
- Romans 8:1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Beneficial Results of Freedom from Dominion of Sin
- 1 John 3:6 No one who remains in Him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has seen Him or known Him.
Beneficial Results of Righteousness Imputed
- 2 Corinthians 5:21 God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
- Philippians 3:9 and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith.
Beneficial Results of The Spirit Alive to Righteousness
- Romans 8:10 But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.
Christ Being in Us
- Ephesians 3:17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love,
- Colossians 1:27 To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Christ Prayed That all Saints Might Have
- John 17:21 that all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.
- John 17:23 I in them and You in Me — that they may be perfectly united, so that the world may know that You sent Me and have loved them just as You have loved Me.
False Teachers Have Not
- Colossians 2:18–19 Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you with speculation about what he has seen. Such a person is puffed up without basis by his unspiritual mind. …
Illustrated: Body and Members
- 1 Corinthians 12:12 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.
- 1 Corinthians 12:27 Now you are the body of Christ, and each of you is a member of it.
- Ephesians 5:30 For we are members of His body.
Illustrated: Foundation and Building
- 1 Corinthians 3:10–11 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. …
- Ephesians 2:20–21 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone. …
- 1 Peter 2:4–6 As you come to Him, the living stone, rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight, …
Illustrated: Husband and Wife
- Ephesians 5:25–32 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her …
Illustrated: Vine and Branches
Includes Union with the Father
- John 17:21 that all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.
- 1 John 2:24 As for you, let what you have heard from the beginning remain in you. If it does, you will also remain in the Son and in the Father.
Maintained by Abiding in Him
Maintained by Faith
- Galatians 2:20 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.
- Ephesians 3:17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love,
Maintained by Feeding on Him
- John 6:56 Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood remains in Me, and I in him.
Maintained by His Word Abiding in Us
- John 15:7 If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
- 1 John 2:24 As for you, let what you have heard from the beginning remain in you. If it does, you will also remain in the Son and in the Father.
- 2 John 9 Anyone who runs ahead without remaining in the teaching of Christ does not have God. Whoever remains in His teaching has both the Father and the Son.
Maintained by Obeying Him
- 1 John 3:24 Whoever keeps His commandments remains in God, and God in him. And by this we know that He remains in us: by the Spirit He has given us.
Necessary to Fruitfulness
- John 15:4–5 Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me. …
Necessary to Growth in Grace
- Ephesians 4:15–16 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ Himself, who is the head. …
- Colossians 2:19 He has lost connection to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God causes it to grow.
Our Being in Christ
- 2 Corinthians 12:2 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.
- 1 John 5:20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true — in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
Punishment of Those Who Have Not
- John 15:6 If anyone does not remain in Me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers. Such branches are gathered up, thrown into the fire, and burned.
Saints are Complete Through
- Colossians 2:10 And you have been made complete in Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.
Saints: Enjoy, in the Lord's Supper
- 1 Corinthians 10:16–17 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? …
Saints: Exhorted to Maintain
- John 15:4 Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me.
- Acts 11:23 When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to abide in the Lord with all their hearts.
- Colossians 2:7 rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
Saints: Have Assurance of
- John 14:20 On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I am in you.
Saints: Have, in his Death
- Romans 6:3–8 Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? …
- Galatians 2:20 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.
Saints: Have, in Love
- Song of Solomon 2:16 My beloved is mine and I am his; he pastures his flock among the lilies.
- Song of Solomon 7:10 I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me.
Saints: Have, in Mind
- 1 Corinthians 2:16 “For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
- Philippians 2:5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus:
Saints: Have, in Spirit
- 1 Corinthians 6:17 But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit.
Saints: Have, in Sufferings
- Philippians 3:10 I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to Him in His death,
- 2 Timothy 2:12 if we endure, we will also reign with Him; if we deny Him, He will also deny us;
Saints: Identified with Christ By
- Matthew 25:40 And the King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me.’
- Matthew 25:45 Then the King will answer, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for Me.’
- Acts 9:4 He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?”
- Acts 8:1 And Saul was there, giving approval to Stephen’s death. On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.
The Gift of the Holy Spirit is an Evidence of
- 1 John 4:13 By this we know that we remain in Him, and He in us: He has given us of His Spirit.
The Holy Spirit Witnesses
- 1 John 3:24 Whoever keeps His commandments remains in God, and God in him. And by this we know that He remains in us: by the Spirit He has given us.
They Who Have, Ought to Walk As he Walked
- 1 John 2:6 Whoever claims to abide in Him must walk as Jesus walked.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.