Word, that hatred of sin, that obedience to God’s will—that were all so tragically absent from the old life. The believer can also say with Paul that ‘The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God’. By his presence in us, Christ is, as it were, holding onto us. And by faith we, for our part, are holding onto him. We abide in him, looking to him constantly to supply us with what we need for the living of our Christian lives, to be to us all that we need for righteousness and eternal