Romans 6:5
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For if we have been united with Him like this in His death, we will certainly also be united with Him in His resurrection.
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For if we have been planted together--literally, "have become formed together." (The word is used here only). in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection--that is, "Since Christ's death and resurrection are inseparable in their efficacy, union with Him in the one carries with it participation in the other, for privilege and for duty alike." The future tense is used of participation in His resurrection, because this is but partially realized in the present state. (See on Rom 5:19).
Open source ↗The apostle having at large asserted, opened, and proved, the great doctrine of justification by faith, for fear lest any should suck poison out of that sweet flower, and turn that grace of God into wantonness and licentiousness, he, with a like zeal, copiousness of expression, and cogency of argument, presses the absolute necessity of sanctification and a holy life, as the inseparable fruit and companion of justification; for, wherever Jesus Christ is made of God unto any soul righteousness, he is made of God unto that soul sanctification, Co1 1:30. The water and the blood came streaming together out of the pierced side of the dying Jesus. And what God hath thus joined together let not us dare to put asunder.
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And having been buried with Him in baptism, you were raised with Him through your faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead.
We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
Therefore, since you have been raised with Christ, strive for the things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
But Jesus replied, “Every plant that My heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by its roots.
Planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God.
He dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a winepress as well. He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes, but the fruit it produced was sour!
Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a seed; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?