Bible Verses About Identity

Understanding who we are can be a big part of our faith journey. The Bible offers many insights about our identity, helping us see ourselves through God’s eyes. In this post, we’ll explore Bible verses about identity that remind us of our worth and purpose. These verses will help us understand how God views us and how we can live confidently in the truth of who we are in Christ.

Bible Verses About Identity

Genesis 1:27 – “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.”

Exodus 19:5 – “Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine,”

Deuteronomy 7:6 – “For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.”

Psalm 139:14 – “I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.”

Isaiah 43:1 – “But now, this is what the Lord says— he who created you, Jacob, he who formed you, Israel: ‘Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine.'”

Isaiah 43:4 – “Since you are precious and honored in my sight, and because I love you, I will give people in exchange for you, nations in exchange for your life.”

Jeremiah 1:5 – “‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.'”

Matthew 5:14 – “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden.”

Matthew 5:16 – “In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.”

John 1:12 – “Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—”

John 15:15 – “I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.”

Acts 17:28 – “‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’”

Romans 8:14 – “For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.”

Romans 8:16 – “The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.”

Romans 8:17 – “Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings, in order that we may also share in his glory.”

1 Corinthians 6:19 – “Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;”

2 Corinthians 5:17 – “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!”

Galatians 2:20 – “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”

Galatians 3:26 – “So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith,”

Galatians 4:7 – “So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.”

Ephesians 1:5 – “He predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will—”

Ephesians 1:11 – “In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will,”

Ephesians 2:10 – “For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”

Ephesians 2:19 – “Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household,”

Philippians 4:13 – “I can do all this through him who gives me strength.”

Colossians 1:13 – “For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves,”

Colossians 3:3 – “For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.”

1 Thessalonians 5:5 – “You are all children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness.”

Hebrews 10:10 – “And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.”

1 Peter 2:9 – “But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.”

1 John 3:1 – “See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.”

1 John 3:2 – “Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.”

1 John 4:6 – “We are from God, and whoever knows God hears us; but whoever is not from God does not hear us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood.”

Revelation 1:6 – “And has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God and Father—to him be glory and power forever and ever! Amen.”

Revelation 5:10 – “You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth.”

Revelation 12:10 – “Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: ‘Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Messiah. For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down.’”

Genesis 32:28 – “Then the man said, ‘Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.’”

Isaiah 62:3 – “You will be a crown of splendor in the Lord’s hand, a royal diadem in the hand of your God.”

Jeremiah 29:11 – “‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.’”

Micah 7:8 – “Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.”

Zephaniah 3:17 – “The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.”

Matthew 6:26 – “Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?”

Matthew 10:31 – “So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.”

Luke 12:32 – “Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom.”

John 10:10 – “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.”

John 15:5 – “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.”

Romans 8:1 – “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,”

Romans 8:39 – “neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

2 Corinthians 1:21 – “Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us,”

Ephesians 2:6 – “And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,”

These verses offer a rich perspective on our identity in Christ and how we are valued and loved by God.

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