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For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Galatians 3:27 · New King James Version
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.
  • BSB For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with 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 13:14But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
  • 1 Cor 12:13For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.
  • Rom 6:3–4Or don’t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
  • 1 Pet 3:21This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you — not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
  • Eph 4:24and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
  • Col 3:10and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
  • Acts 2:38Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
  • Job 29:14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
  • Col 2:10–12and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power;
  • Rom 3:22even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,
  • Isa 61:10I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
  • Acts 16:15When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay.” So she persuaded us.
  • Acts 8:16for as yet he had fallen on none of them. They had only been baptized in the name of Christ Jesus.
  • Matt 28:19–20Go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
  • Mark 16:15–16He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.
  • Acts 8:36–38As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?”
  • Acts 9:18Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he received his sight. He arose and was baptized.
  • Acts 16:31–33They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
  • Luke 15:22“But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.
  • 1 Cor 10:2and 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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