Quotes About Identity

If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations:

For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.

When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.

and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.

For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day; we do not belong to the night or to the darkness.

so that the name of our Lord Jesus will be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and of the Lord Jesus Christ.

This greeting is in my own hand—Paul. This is my mark in every letter; it is the way I write.

no longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a beloved brother. He is especially beloved to me, but even more so to you, both in person and in the Lord.

So He became as far superior to the angels as the name He has inherited is excellent beyond theirs.

For both the One who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers.

Without father or mother or genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, like the Son of God, he remains a priest for all time.

He of whom these things are said belonged to a different tribe, from which no one has ever served at the altar.

Now those who say such things show that they are seeking a country of their own.

If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.

By faith Moses, when he was grown, refused to be called the son of Pharaohís daughter.

If you do not experience discipline like everyone else, then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.

and after observing himself goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.

Are they not the ones who blaspheme the noble name by which you have been called?

My brothers, can a fig tree grow olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To the elect who are exiles of the Dispersion throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, chosen

As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.

As you come to Him, the living stone, rejected by men but chosen and precious in Godís sight,

Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

But if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but glorify God that you bear that name.