Vivification
New Life in Christ
Sanctification · 6 verses
Believers possess new spiritual life through regeneration and union with the risen Christ, having been quickened from spiritual death to walk in newness of life. This imparted vitality energizes holy affections, enables spiritual perception, and produces righteous conduct as the principle of divine life works within to transform heart, mind, and will according to God's image.
Scripture References
“Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.”
“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
“But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)”
“If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.”
“The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”
“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”