Righteous: Unity of, with Christ

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And this bread, which I will give for the life of the world, is My flesh.” …

On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I am in you.

“I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard. …

If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.

…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. …

And I have made Your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love You have for Me may be in them, and I in them.”

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.

…so in Christ we who are many are one body, and each member belongs to one another.

“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. …

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.

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free, and we were all given one Spirit to drink.

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 am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you fail the test?

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.

For we are members of His body.

This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church.

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.

Therefore, just as you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to walk in Him,

…rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

But rejoice that you share in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed at the revelation of His glory.

Whoever claims to abide in Him must walk as Jesus walked.

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.

And now, little children, remain in Christ, so that when He appears, we may be confident and unashamed before Him at His coming.

No one who remains in Him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has seen Him or known Him.

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.

By this we know that we remain in Him, and He in us: He has given us of His Spirit.

Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

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.

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.

Let us rejoice and be glad and give Him the glory. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready. …

Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls full of the seven final plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”