Romans 8:1
There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:10–11
If Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.
Romans 8:37–39
In all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 12:4–5
Just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, 5 so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.
1 Corinthians 1:30 NLT
God has united you with Christ Jesus. For our benefit God made him to be wisdom itself. Christ made us right with God; he made us pure and holy, and he freed us from sin.
1 Corinthians 2:15–16
The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man’s judgment: “For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
· [Abiding] is an act of God, by which the closest and most complete life-union is effected between the Son of God and the sinner.
· So close is the union between the vine and the branch, that each is nothing without the other, that each is wholly and only for the other.
· All the vine possesses belongs to the branches.
· All that Jesus is in heaven, He is for us: He has no interest there separate from ours.
· My part, abiding is nothing but the acceptance of my position, the consent to be kept there, the surrender of faith to the strong Vine still to hold the feeble branch.
· In the relationship to Jesus the one daily and unceasing duty of the disciple is to believe because believing is the one channel through which divine grace and strength flow out into the heart of man.
· A large, strong vine bears the feeble branch, and holds it more than the branch holds the vine.
· The whole Christian life depends on the clear consciousness of our position in Christ.
· Most essential to the abiding in Christ is the daily renewal of our faith’s assurance, “I am in Christ Jesus.”
· The same love and delight with which the Father watched over the beloved Son Himself, watch over every member of His body, everyone who is in Christ Jesus.
· The answer to each prayer must come in the closer union and the deeper abiding in Him;
· Let it be your first care to abide in Him in undivided fervent devotion of heart; when the heart and the life are right, rooted in Christ, knowledge will come in such measure as Christ’s own wisdom sees meet.
· Jesus your wisdom is guiding you in the right way, even when you do not see it.
· Now the living Christ Himself is his righteousness—that Christ who watches over, and keeps and loves us as His own; it is no longer an impossibility to walk all the day enrobed in the loving presence with which He covers His people.
· The measure of sanctification will depend on the measure of abiding in Him; as the soul learns wholly to abide in Christ, the promise is increasingly fulfilled: “The very God of peace sanctify you wholly.”
· Believe most confidently that Jesus Christ Himself delights in maintaining that new nature within you and imparting to it His own strength and wisdom for its work.
· We are not at all to work together with Christ in making or producing that holy frame in us, but only to take it to ourselves, and use it in our holy practice, as made ready to our hands.