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For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
Galatians 3:27 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
  • KJV For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
  • NKJV For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
  • NASB For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
  • NLT And all who have been united with Christ in baptism have put on Christ, like putting on new clothes.

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Quick answer

Those baptized into Christ have 'put on Christ' like a garment. Baptism signifies and seals a real union with Christ in which His righteousness becomes the believer's covering.

Overview

Paul uses the imagery of clothing oneself with Christ to describe the believer's new identity. In the Reformed tradition, baptism is the visible sign and seal of union with Christ that is received by faith, not a mechanical guarantee. To 'put on Christ' means to belong to Him and to bear His character, the basis for the equality and unity Paul affirms in the next verse.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 20

  • Rom 13:14Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.
  • 1 Cor 12:13For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free, and we were all given one Spirit to drink.
  • Rom 6:3–4Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
  • 1 Pet 3:21And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
  • Eph 4:24and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
  • Col 3:10and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
  • Acts 2:38Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
  • Job 29:14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; justice was my robe and my turban.
  • Col 2:10–12And you have been made complete in Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.
  • Rom 3:22And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,
  • Isa 61:10I will rejoice greatly in the LORD, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom wears a priestly headdress, as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
  • Acts 16:15And when she and her household had been baptized, she urged us, “If you consider me a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house.” And she persuaded us.
  • Acts 8:16For the Holy Spirit had not yet fallen upon any of them; they had simply been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.
  • Matt 28:19–20Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,
  • Mark 16:15–16And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
  • Acts 8:36–38As they traveled along the road and came to some water, the eunuch said, “Look, here is water! What is there to prevent me from being baptized?”
  • Acts 9:18At that instant, something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and his sight was restored. He got up and was baptized,
  • Acts 16:31–33They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household.”
  • Luke 15:22But the father said to his servants, ‘Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.
  • 1 Cor 10:2They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.

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Christ at the center

Christ became a curse for us to redeem us from the law's curse, that we might receive the Spirit and be sons — justified by faith in him, not by works.

How Galatians 3:27 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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