Bible verses about "identity" | Thomson

²³ Moreover he said to all, if any one desireth to come under my guidance, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. ²⁴ For whoever would save his life shall lose it. But whosoever shall lose his life for my sake, he shall save it. ²⁵ For what advantage is it to a man to have gained the whole world and destroyed himself, or be punished with the loss of life. ²⁶ For whoever shall be ashamed of me, or of my words, of him the son of man will be ashamed when he shall come in his own glory, and in that of the father, and the holy angels. ²⁷ Now I tell you of a truth, there are some of those standing here, who shall not taste death until they see the reign of God.

¹⁵ I no longer call you servants; because the servant doth not know what his master doth. But I have called you friends, because I have made known to you all that I heard from my Father.

⁵ I am the vine; you are the branches. He who continueth in me and I in him he it is who beareth much fruit. Because, separated from me, you can bear nothing:

²⁷ For as many of you as have been baptized to Christ, have put on Christ, ²⁸ There is in him no distinction of Jew and Greek, no distinction of bondman and freeman, no distinction of male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus. ²⁹ And if you are Christ's, you are then the seed of Abraham and heirs according to promise.

²² with respect to your former course of life, to put off the old man, which is corrupted by deceitful desires, ²³ and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind; ²⁴ and to put on the new man, which in a conformity to God is created in righteousness and the holiness of truth.

¹ Since you then have been raised up with the Christ, seek the things which are above; where the Christ is seated at the right hand of God. ² Set your affections on the things above and not on the things of this earth. ³ For you have died, and your life is hid with the Christ in God. ⁴ When the Christ, our life, shall appear, then shall you also appear with him in glory.

²⁷ Now with regard to you, ye are a body of Christ, even individual members,

¹⁹ Do you not know that your body is a temple of a holy spirit in you, which you have from God? Indeed you are not your own; ²⁰ for you have been bought with a price. Therefore glorify God with your body and with your spirit which are his.

¹⁰ For we are his workmanship, fitted by Christ Jesus for good works, for which God had before prepared us that we might walk therein.

¹ Behold what a love the Father hath shewn us, that we should be called children of God: on this account the world doth not know us, because it did not know him. ² Beloved, we are now children of God. Though it hath not yet been manifested what we shall be, yet we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him: that we shall see him as he is. ³ Now, everyone who hath this hope in him purifieth himself as he is pure.

²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live"not I myself any more, but Christ liveth in me; and the life which I now live in flesh, I live by that belief which I have in the son of God, who loved me and delivered up himself for me.

⁹ but you being a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people peculiarly set apart that you may publish the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light

⁵ "Before I formed thee in the womb, I knew thee, and before thou wast born I hallowed thee. I have appointed thee a prophet for nations."

¹¹ When I plan a purpose of peace and not evils against you, to grant you this,

¹⁷ So that if any one is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things are passed away, behold! all those things are made new.

²⁷ So God made man. After an image of God he made him. A male and a female he made them.