Colossians 1:27

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

For, behold, darkness will cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—

Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:

being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;

But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.

For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope;

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

“When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

In him we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him.

in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins.

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

He said to me, “Write, ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb.’ ” He said to me, “These are true words of God.”

But if I by the Spirit of God cast out demons, then God’s Kingdom has come upon you.

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

But we received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

neither will they say, ‘Look, here!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ for behold, God’s Kingdom is within you.”

He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him and doesn’t know him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.

But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

He displayed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honor of his excellent majesty many days, even one hundred eighty days.

You will be secure, because there is hope. Yes, you will search, and will take your rest in safety.

In his name, the nations will hope.”

This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes’?”

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

The Jews therefore said among themselves, “Where will this man go that we won’t find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;