Bible Verses About Identity in Christ

Consider the kind of love the Father has given us: we are called children of God, and we really are his children. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

Even before the world was founded, God chose us in Christ, so that we would be holy and without blemish before him in love.

You are God’s chosen people, holy and loved by him. So put on, like clothing, a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.

But in all of this we are winning, and winning by far, through the one who loved us.

So if the Son frees you, you will be truly free.

But we hold our citizenship in heaven, and it is from there that we are eagerly waiting for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

You are the light of the world. A town built on a hilltop cannot be hidden.

You are the salt for the earth. But if salt goes flat, what can give it back its saltiness? It is good for nothing anymore but to be thrown out and walked on.

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people God has claimed as his own, so that you may declare the great deeds of the one who called you out of the darkness into his amazing light.

For we are God’s own work. In Christ Jesus he created us for good works, which God made ready in advance so that we would live our lives doing them.

So we are ambassadors who speak for Christ, and it is God himself who makes his appeal through us. Speaking for Christ, we plead with you: be reconciled to God.

so that his glorious grace would be praised, the grace he has freely given us in the Beloved.

I give you thanks, for the way I was made is awe-inspiring and marvelous. What you make is wonderful, and deep within I know it well.