Quotes About Identity

to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not rush to consult with flesh and blood,

I was personally unknown, however, to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.

Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.

When I saw that they were not walking in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

We who are Jews by birth and not Gentile “sinners”

If I rebuild what I have already torn down, I prove myself to be a lawbreaker.

I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

Understand, then, that those who have faith are sons of Abraham.

Now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.

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

For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

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

What I am saying is that as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, although he is the owner of everything.

So also, when we were children, we were enslaved under the basic principles of the world.

to redeem those under the law, that we might receive our adoption as sons.

And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”

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

But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?

I beg you, brothers, become like me, for I became like you. You have done me no wrong.

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.

Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present-day Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.

But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.

At that time, however, the son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit. It is the same now.