⁶ and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places^[a] in Christ Jesus,

The New Life in Christ

3 So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.^{(A) 2} Set your minds on the things that are above, not on the things that are on earth, ³ for you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.^(B)

⁴ Therefore we were buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.^(A)

⁵ For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.

¹² when you were buried with him in baptism, you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.^{(A) 13} And when you were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God^[a] made you^[b] alive together with him, when he forgave us all our trespasses,^(B)

Spiritual Blessings in Christ

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,^[a](A)

²¹ that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us,^[a] so that the world may believe that you have sent me.^{(A) 22} The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one,^{(B) 23} I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. ²⁴ Father, I desire that those also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.^(C)

²⁵ “Righteous Father, the world does not know you, but I know you, and these know that you have sent me.^{(D) 26} I made your name known to them, and I will make it known, so that the love with which you have loved me may be in them and I in them.”^(E)

²⁶ Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there will my servant be also. Whoever serves me, the Father will honor.^(A)

²⁰ Listen! I am standing at the door, knocking; if you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in and eat with you, and you with me.^{(A) 21} To the one who conquers I will give a place with me on my throne, just as I myself conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.^(B)

³ And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be also.^(A)

²⁹ and I confer on you, just as my Father has conferred on me, a kingdom,^{(A) 30} so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.^(B)