Bible verses about "identity" | ACV

²³ And he said to all, If any man wants to come behind me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. ²⁴ For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever may lose his life because of me, this man will save it. ²⁵ For what is a man benefited, having gained the whole world, but having lost or having forfeited himself? ²⁶ For whoever may be ashamed of me and of my words, the Son of man will be ashamed of this man when he comes in his glory, and of the Father, and of the holy agents. ²⁷ But I tell you truly, there are some of those who stand here, who will, no, not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.

¹⁵ I no longer call you bondmen, because the bondman does not know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I made known to you.

⁵ I am the grapevine, ye are the branches. He who dwells in me, and I in him, this man bears much fruit, because without me ye can do nothing.

¹ If therefore ye were raised with the Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. ² Think on the things above, not the things on the earth. ³ For ye died, and your life has been hidden with the Christ in God. ⁴ When the Christ, our life, is made known, then ye also will be made known with him in glory.

²⁷ For as many as were immersed into Christ have put on Christ. ²⁸ There is no Jew nor Greek, there is no bondman nor freeman, there is no male and female, for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. ²⁹ And if ye are Christ's, then ye are Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise.

²² for you to put off the old man according to your former conduct, the man who is corrupt according to the desires of deceitfulness, ²³ and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴ and to put on the new man according to God, the man who was created in righteousness and piety of the truth.

²⁷ Now ye are the body of Christ, and body-parts individually.

¹⁹ Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? And ye are not your own, ²⁰ for ye were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and your spirit, which is of God.

¹⁰ For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God preordained that we should walk in them.

¹ Behold what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we may be called children of God. Because of this the world does not know you, because it did not know him. ² Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet made known what we will be. But we know that whenever he is made known we will be like him, because we will see him as he is. ³ And every man who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as that man is pure.

²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. And what I now live in flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.

⁹ But ye are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for an acquired possession, so that ye might broadly proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

⁵ Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee, and before thou came forth out of the womb I sanctified thee. I have appointed thee a prophet to the nations.

¹¹ For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.

¹⁷ So then if any man is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away, behold, all things have become new.

²⁷ And God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them.