Bible Verses about โbeing in christโ
The Bible contains 43 verses about being in christ across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โTherefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.โ
โfor by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,โ
โPeter said to them, "Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.โ
โnot of works, that no one would boast.โ
โGreater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.โ
โFor we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.โ
โI have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.โ
โand that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,โ
โthat you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;โ
โand put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.โ
โIf you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.โ
โ"This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.โ
โThere is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.โ
โBut as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name:โ
โYou didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.โ
โI am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.โ
โIf you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.โ
โIf the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.โ
โNo longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn't know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.โ
โYou are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.โ
โYou are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.โ
โRemain in me, and I in you. As the branch can't bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.โ
โ"I command these things to you, that you may love one another.โ
โRemember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his lord.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.โ
โEvery branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.โ
โ"I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.โ
โ"In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.โ
โWe were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.โ
โIf a man doesn't remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.โ
โEven as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.โ
โBut all these things will they do to you for my name's sake, because they don't know him who sent me.โ
โ"When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.โ
โIf I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.โ
โHe who hates me, hates my Father also.โ
โI have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.โ
โFor as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.โ
โFor you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.โ
โIf you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and remain in his love.โ
โIf I hadn't done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn't have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father.โ
โBut this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.'โ
โYou will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.โ
โOr don't you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?โ
โBut of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:โ
