Alive with Christ
(Colossians 2:6–23)
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, Col 2:13Eph 2:5-6Col 3:1-4Eph 4:18Rom 8:2Jhn 5:21Jhn 11:25-261Jn 3:14 in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience. Eph 6:121Jn 5:19Eph 2:3Jhn 12:31Col 3:6-7Eph 5:6Jhn 8:441Co 6:11 All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath. Tit 3:3Eph 4:22Gal 5:16-241Pe 1:14Rom 13:141Co 6:9-11Psa 51:5Rom 6:12
But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 1Pe 1:3Eph 1:7Psa 86:15Tit 3:4-7Rom 5:8Eph 2:7Psa 145:8Rom 10:12 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved! Rom 3:24Eph 2:8Rom 5:10Rom 5:8Act 15:11Eph 2:1Rom 8:2Tit 2:11 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, Col 3:1-3Eph 1:3Col 2:12-13Rom 6:4-5Jhn 17:21-26Rev 3:20-21Jhn 12:26Eph 1:19-20 in order that in the coming ages He might display the surpassing riches of His grace, demonstrated by His kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 1Ti 1:16-17Tit 3:42Th 1:12Eph 2:4Isa 60:15Rev 5:9-14Eph 3:5Psa 106:48
For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God, Rom 3:22-26Eph 2:5Rom 4:16Jhn 1:12-13Rom 10:17Rom 10:9-10Act 16:31Jas 1:16-18 not by works, so that no one can boast. 2Ti 1:9Rom 11:6Tit 3:3-5Rom 9:161Co 1:29-31Rom 3:20Rom 4:2Rom 9:11 For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life. 1 Php 2:13Col 1:10Heb 13:212Co 5:172Co 9:8Eph 4:24Php 1:62Ti 3:17
One in Christ
(Philippians 2:1–4)
Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands)— Col 2:11Col 2:13Col 3:11Rom 2:28-29Gal 6:121Co 12:21Co 6:11Col 1:21 remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. Gal 4:8Col 1:211Pe 1:3Jer 31:31-341Th 4:13Eph 4:18Ezk 37:26Jhn 15:5 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ. Act 2:39Col 1:20-22Col 1:13-14Eph 2:19-221Co 6:11Isa 57:19Isa 43:6Rom 3:23-30
For He Himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has torn down the dividing wall of hostility Gal 3:28Col 3:15Col 3:11Eph 2:151Co 12:12-13Col 1:20Col 2:10-14Isa 9:6-7 by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace Col 2:14Gal 3:10Col 1:21-22Heb 8:13Col 2:20Col 3:10Gal 3:28Gal 6:15 and reconciling both of them to God in one body through the cross, by which He extinguished their hostility. Col 1:20-22Rom 5:102Co 5:18-21Col 2:141Pe 4:1-2Gal 2:20Eph 2:15Rom 6:6
He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. Isa 57:19-21Act 10:36Rom 5:1Act 2:39Deu 4:7Eph 2:13-14Psa 148:14Zec 9:10 For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit. 1Co 12:13Eph 3:12Rom 5:2Eph 4:4Jhn 14:6Heb 10:19-20Jhn 10:9Heb 4:15-16
Christ Our Cornerstone
(Isaiah 28:14–22; 1 Corinthians 3:10–15; 1 Peter 2:1–8)
Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household, Php 3:201Jn 3:1Gal 3:26-28Gal 6:10Eph 2:12Eph 3:6Heb 11:13Heb 12:22-24 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone. 1Pe 2:4-5Isa 28:161Pe 2:7-8Psa 118:22Eph 4:11-13Mat 16:18Rev 21:141Co 3:9-11 In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord. 1Co 3:16-171Co 3:92Co 6:16Eph 4:13-161Ki 6:7Heb 3:3-4Exo 26:1-37Ezk 42:12 And in Him you too are being built together into a dwelling place for God in His Spirit. 1Pe 2:4-51Co 3:16Jhn 17:21-231Jn 4:161Jn 4:13Jhn 14:17-231Co 6:19Rom 8:9-11