Christ in you

Which life is there to lose and which one to gain?

Paul did not speak in a poetic or metaphorical way when he said that "Jesus Christ is in you". What he really meant by this was that Jesus Christ truly and practically dwells in believers. Just like the Corinthians, we need to know this fact about ourselves. Christ is not only outside of us, a helper in need, but he dwells in us, lives in and with us all the time.

Bible translation "Luther 2017"

“I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.” (Hesekiel 36,26).

“When I sit and when I rise, you know it; you perceive my thoughts from afar. When I walk and when I lie down, you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue, you, Lord, know it completely. You hem me in behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.” (Ps 139,2-6).

"Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him." (Johannes 6,56).

“The Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he abides with you and will be in you.” (Johannes 14,17).

“On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.” (Johannes 14,20).

“Jesus answered and said to him, ‘Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.’” (Johannes 14,23).

"Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, neither can you unless you remain in me." (Johannes 15,4).

“I in them and you in me, that they may be perfectly one, and that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.” (Johannes 17,23).

“And I have made your name known to them, and will continue to make it known, so that the love with which you love me may be in them, and I in them.” (Johannes 17,26).

“But if Christ is in you, then although your body is dead because of sin, your Spirit is life because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.” (Römer 8,10-11).

“Therefore I can boast in Christ Jesus that I serve God.” (Römer 15,17).

“Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” (1. Korinther 3,16).

"But by the grace of God I am what I am. And his grace toward me was not in vain, but I labored more abundantly than they all—yet not I, but the grace of God that is with me." (1. Korinther 15,10).

“For God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” (2. Korinther 4,6).

“But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing power may be from God and not from us.” (2. Korinther 4,7)

“For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal flesh. Therefore death reigns in us, but life in you.” (2. Kor. 4,11-12).

“Examine yourselves to see whether you stand in the faith; test yourselves! Or do you not recognize in yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you? If not, then you have not been approved.” (2. Korinther 13,5).

“You are demanding proof that Christ speaks in me, who is not weak in relation to you, but powerful among you.” (2. Korinther 15,3).

“For though he [Jesus] was crucified in weakness, yet he lives by the power of God. And though we are weak in him, yet we will live with him by the power of God for you. Examine yourselves whether you stand in faith; check yourself! Or do you not recognize in yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you? If not, then you wouldn't be proven, would you? (2. Korinther 15,4-5).

“But when it pleased God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by his grace, 16 to reveal his Son in me, that I should preach him among the Gentiles through the gospel, I did not consult with flesh and blood first.” (Galater 1,15-16).

“I live, yet it is no longer I, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” (Galater 2,20).

“My children, whom I will again bear in labor until Christ is formed in you!” (Galater 4,19).

“Through him you too are being built together into a dwelling place for God in the Spirit.” (Epheser 2,22).

“That Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And that you, being rooted and grounded in love.” (Epheser 3,17).

"Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus." (Philipper 2,5).

“To them God wished to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” (Kolosser 1,27).

“For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily, and you are filled through him, who is the head of all rulers and authorities.” (Kolosser 2,9-10).

“There is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, non-Greek, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all.” (Kolosser 3,11).

“What you have heard from the beginning, let it remain in you. If what you have heard from the beginning remains in you, you will also remain in the Son and in the Father.” (1. Johannes 2,24).

“And the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you; but as his anointing teaches you about all things, which is true and is not a lie, and as it has taught you, abide in him.” (1. Johannes 2,27).

“Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.” (1. Johannes 3,24).

“Children, you are from God and have overcome them, because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.” (1. Johannes 4,4).

“When he comes, to be glorified in his saints and to be marveled at in the sight of all who believe on that day; for what we have testified to you, you have believed.” (2. Thessalonicher 1,10).