Scriptural Confirmations (Whitehead) n. 7

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7. Five. I desire you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ (Phil. 1:8). Jesus emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, wherefore God hath exalted Him and given Him a Name above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven, in earth, and under the earth (Phil. 2:7-11). The God of faith (Phil. 3:9). Christ, who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature, and that through Him and in Him all things were created (Col. 1:15, 16). Christ is before all things, and all things subsist in Him, and He is the head of the body, the church (Col. 1:17, 18, 24). In Christ doth all fullness dwell, and by Him all things were reconciled to Himself (Col. 1:18-20). In Christ are hid all the treasures of wisdom and of knowledge (Col. 2:3). In Christ dwelleth all the fullness of the Divinity bodily (Col. 2:9). Christ sitting on the right hand of God (Col. 3:1; Heb. 8:1; 10:12; 12:2). Christ is all in all (Col. 3:11). That they all may be in one body (Col. 3:15). Do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus (Col. 3:17). That from the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance; ye serve the Lord Christ (Col. 3:24). Christ is the head of the body (Col. 2:19). Life is with Christ in God (Col. 3:3). (Concerning the coming of the Lord, see also Consummation and Judgment.)


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