For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Parallel translations
- WEB For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
- BSB For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with 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
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- Rom 13:14But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
- 1 Cor 12:13For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
- Rom 6:3–4Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
- 1 Pet 3:21The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
- Eph 4:24And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
- Col 3:10And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
- Acts 2:38Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
- Job 29:14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
- Col 2:10–12And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
- Rom 3:22Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
- Isa 61:10I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
- Acts 16:15And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.
- Acts 8:16(For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)
- Matt 28:19–20Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
- Mark 16:15–16And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
- Acts 8:36–38And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?
- Acts 9:18And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.
- Acts 16:31–33And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
- Luke 15:22But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:
- 1 Cor 10:2And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
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