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 want to give you a new heart and a new spirit in you, and I want to take away the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh" (Ezekiel 36,26).

“I sit or get up, that's how you know it; you understand my thoughts from afar. I walk or lie, so you are around me and see all my ways. For, see, there is not a word on my tongue that you, Lord, do not know everything. You surround me on all sides and hold your hand over me. This knowledge is too wonderful and too great for me, I cannot understand it »(Psalm 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 that the world cannot receive because it neither sees nor knows it. You know him because he abides with you and will be in you »(John 14,17).

"In that day you will know that I am in my Father and you in me and I in you" (John 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 lodge with him »(John 14,23).

«Remain in me and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself if it does not remain on the vine, so neither can you if you do not abide by me »(John 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 love them as you love me" (John 17,23).

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

“But if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness. But 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” (Romans 8,10-11).

"Therefore I can boast in Christ Jesus that I serve God" (Romans 15,17).

"Do you not know that you are God's temple and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?" (1. Corinthians 3,16).

“But by God's grace I am what I am. And his grace in me has not been in vain, but I have worked much more than all of them; but not I, but God's grace that is with me »(1. Corinthians 15,10).

"For God, who said: Light shall shine out of the darkness, he gave a bright glow in our hearts, so that illumination might arise for the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ" (2. Corinthians 4,6).

"But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the exuberant power may be from God and not from us" (2. Corinthians 4,7)

«For we who live are forever given to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal flesh. So now death is mighty in us, but life is in you »(2. Corinthians 4,11-12).

«Examine yourselves whether you stand in the faith; check yourself! Or do you not recognize in yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you? If not, then you would not be proven." (2. Corinthians 13,5).

"You are asking for proof that Christ speaks in me, who is not weak towards you, but is mighty among you" (2. Corinthians 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?" (2. Corinthians 15,4-5).

“But when it pleased God, who set me apart from my mother's body and called me by his grace, 16 that he revealed his Son in me, that I should preach him by the gospel among the Gentiles, I did not first discuss myself with the flesh and blood »(Galatians 1,15-16).

«I live, but now not I, but Christ lives in me. For what I now live in the flesh I live in faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself up for me »(Galatians 2,20).

"My children, whom I will give birth again in labor pains until Christ takes shape in you!" (Galatians 4,19).

"Through him you too will be built up into an abode of God in the Spirit" (Ephesians 2,22).

«That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith. And you are rooted and founded in love »(Ephesians 3,17).

“Be of such a mind among yourselves as is of fellowship in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 2,5).

"To them God wanted to make known what the glorious riches of this mystery are among the peoples, namely Christ in you, the hope of glory" (Colossians 1,27).

"For in him the whole fullness of the divinity dwells bodily, 10 and you are fulfilled through him, who is the head of all powers and authorities" (Colossians 2,9-10).

"There is no longer Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, non-Greek, Scythian, slave, suitor, but everything and in all Christ" (Colossians 3,11).

«What you have heard from the beginning will remain within you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you will also remain in the Son and in the Father »(1. John 2,24).

«And the anointing that you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you; but as his anointing teaches you everything, so it is true and not a lie, and as it taught you, so abide in him »(1. John 2,27).

«And whoever keeps his commandments abides in God and God in him. And from this we recognize that he remains in us: by the spirit that he has given us »(1. John 3,24).

«Children, you are of God and have overcome them; because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world »(1. John 4,4).

«When he comes, that he may be glorified among his saints and may appear marvelous among all believers in that day; because what we testified to you, you believed »(2. Thessalonians 1,10).