Quotes About Identity

But what does the Scripture say? “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave womanís son will never share in the inheritance with the free womanís son.”

Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.

As for those who are agitating you, I wish they would proceed to emasculate themselves!

If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Those who want to make a good impression outwardly are trying to compel you to be circumcised. They only do this to avoid persecution for the cross of Christ.

For the circumcised do not even keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.

But as for me, may I never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything. What counts is a new creation.

From now on let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.

He predestined us for adoption as His sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will,

Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands)—

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.

one Lord, one faith, one baptism;

to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;

and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,

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

Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,

For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—

though I myself could have such confidence. If anyone else thinks he has grounds for confidence in the flesh, I have more:

circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;

as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness in the law, faultless.