Scripture Folios
Genesis 2:24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh. Chapter Related Deuteronomy 10:20 You are to fear the Lord your God and serve Him. Hold fast to Him and take your oaths in His name. Chapter Related Psalm 27:8 My heart said, “Seek His face.” Your face, O Lord , I will seek. Chapter Related Psalm 42:1–2 As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence? Chapter Related Song of Solomon 2:16 My beloved is mine and I am his; he pastures his flock among the lilies. Chapter Related Hosea 2:19–20 “So I will betroth you to Me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in loving devotion and compassion. And I will betroth you in faithfulness, and you will know the Lord .” Chapter Related John 14:20 On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I am in you. Chapter Related John 15:4–5 Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me. I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing. Chapter Related John 17:21–23 that all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me. I have given them the glory You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one—I in them and You in Me—that they may be perfectly united, so that the world may know that You sent Me and have loved them just as You have loved Me. Chapter Related Acts 17:28 ‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’ Chapter Related Romans 6:5 For if we have been united with Him like this in His death, we will certainly also be united with Him in His resurrection. Chapter Related Romans 8:1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Chapter Related Romans 8:16 The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. Chapter Related 1 Corinthians 1:9 God, who has called you into fellowship with His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful. Chapter Related 1 Corinthians 6:16–17 Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.” But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit. Chapter Related 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come! Chapter Related Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. Chapter Related Ephesians 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ. Chapter Related Ephesians 5:31–32 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church. Chapter Related Philippians 2:6–7 Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human likeness. Chapter Related Philippians 3:8–9 More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith. Chapter Related Colossians 2:6–7 Therefore, just as you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness. Chapter Related Colossians 3:3–4 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory. Chapter Related 2 Peter 1:4 Through these He has given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. Chapter Related Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with him, and he with Me. Chapter Related
The Bible’s first word for union is the one used of a man and his wife: he will hold fast to her, and the two will become one flesh. Deuteronomy uses the same Hebrew verb for Israel and God: hold fast to him. When Paul writes that whoever is joined to the Lord is one with him in spirit, his word for joined comes from the same Greek verb the old Greek Bible uses in both places, and a line earlier he quotes Genesis. In Ephesians he calls it a profound mystery and says he is speaking about Christ and the church. The Song says it simply: my beloved is mine and I am his. Hosea hears God betroth his people forever, so that they will know him. Jesus puts it in prepositions: I am in my Father, you are in me, and I am in you. The way in runs through a death. He emptied himself; we are united with him in his death and in his resurrection; I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. Your life is now hidden with Christ in God, and Christ is your life. It begins with a knock at the door.