Quotes About Belonging

The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are Godís children.

So it is not the children of the flesh who are Godís children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as offspring.

As He says in Hosea: “I will call them ëMy Peopleí who are not My people, and I will call her ëMy Belovedí who is not My beloved,”

and, “It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ëYou are not My people,í they will be called ësons of the living God.í”

so in Christ we who are many are one body, and each member belongs to one another.

If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. All of them belong to you,

and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.

If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.

And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.

But each in his own turn: Christ the firstfruits; then at His coming, those who belong to Him.

You are looking at outward appearances. If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should remind himself that we belong to Christ just as much as he does.

Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.

You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

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

And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abrahamís seed and heirs according to the promise.

So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, you are also an heir through God.

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of Godís household,

from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name.

Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,

For we are members of His body.

Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.

But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and the helmet of our hope of salvation.