being in christ

¹⁷So if anyone is a new creature in Christ, what is old has passed away. Behold, all things have been made new.

¹Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who are not walking according to the flesh.

¹²Yet whoever did accept him, those who believed in his name, he gave them the power to become the sons of God.

²⁰I live; yet now, it is not I, but truly Christ, who lives in me. And though I live now in the flesh, I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and who delivered himself for me.

¹⁰For we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for the good works which God has prepared and in which we should walk.

²²to set aside your earlier behavior, the former man, who was corrupted, by means of desire, unto error, ²³and so be renewed in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴and so put on the new man, who, in accord with God, is created in justice and in the holiness of truth.

³Do you not know that those of us who have been baptized in Christ Jesus have been baptized into his death? ⁴For through baptism we have been buried with him into death, so that, in the manner that Christ rose from the dead, by the glory of the Father, so may we also walk in the newness of life.

³Do you not know that those of us who have been baptized in Christ Jesus have been baptized into his death?

³⁸Yet truly, Peter said to them: “Do penance; and be baptized, each one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins. And you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

³⁰But you are of him in Christ Jesus, who was made by God to be our wisdom and justice and sanctification and redemption.

²⁷For as many of you as have been baptized in Christ have become clothed with Christ.

⁴For through baptism we have been buried with him into death, so that, in the manner that Christ rose from the dead, by the glory of the Father, so may we also walk in the newness of life.

¹“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. ²Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he will take away. And each one that does bear fruit, he will cleanse, so that it may bring forth more fruit. ³You are clean now, because of the word that I have spoken to you. ⁴Abide in me, and I in you. Just as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, so also are you unable, unless you abide in me. ⁵I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me, and I in him, bears much fruit. For without me, you are able to do nothing. ⁶If anyone does not abide in me, he will be cast away, like a branch, and he will wither, and they will gather him and cast him into the fire, and he burns.

²⁶For you are all sons of God, through the faith which is in Christ Jesus. ²⁷For as many of you as have been baptized in Christ have become clothed with Christ.

²⁴and so put on the new man, who, in accord with God, is created in justice and in the holiness of truth.

⁶And he has raised us up together, and he has caused us to sit down together in the heavens, in Christ Jesus,

⁸For by grace, you have been saved through faith. And this is not of yourselves, for it is a gift of God. ⁹And this is not of works, so that no one may glory.