Identity

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

“Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him. — read the full passage →

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit; — read the full passage →

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God. — read the full passage →

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. — read the full passage →

For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him. — read the full passage →

But now thus says Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross,and follow me. — read the full passage →

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love;

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me. — read the full passage →

But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power;

to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for I see not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.

Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily, — read the full passage →

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

in whom we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. — read the full passage →

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now he who establishes us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God; — read the full passage →

But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.

in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.

See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?

For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people to himself.

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,” and he said, “You shall tell the children of Israel this: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.

He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” — read the full passage →

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God; — read the full passage →

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, — read the full passage →

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Set up road signs, make guideposts; set your heart toward the highway, even the way by which you went: turn again, virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.

rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

and he said to me, “You are my servant; Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”

Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing; — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.