Bible verses about "identity" | Etheridge

¹⁵ No more I call you servants, for the servant knoweth not what doeth his Lord; but my friends have I called you; wherefore all that I have heard from my Father, I have made known unto you.

⁵ I am the vine, and you the branches. Whoso abideth in me, and I in him, this produceth much fruits, because without me you cannot do any thing.

²³ And he said before all, Whoever willeth to come after me, must deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and come after me. ²⁴ For whoever willeth to save his life, loseth it; but whoever (is willing) to lose his life, for my sake, he saveth it. ²⁵ For what is helped a son of man, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his soul, or perish? ²⁶ For whoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, the Son of man will be ashamed of him, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels. ²⁷ THE truth I say to you, that some who are standing here shall not taste death, until they have seen the kingdom of Aloha.

¹ IF, then, you have risen with the Meshiha, seek (the realities) which are on high, where the Meshiha sitteth at the right hand of Aloha. ² Think of that which is on high, and not of that on earth. ³ For you are dead, and your life is hid with the Meshiha in Aloha; ⁴ and when the Meshiha, who is our life, shall be manifested, then also will you be manifested with him in glory.

²⁷ For they who into the Meshiha are baptized have been clothed with the Meshiha. ²⁸ Jihudoya or Aramoya is not; the slave or the free is not; male or female is not; for you are all one in Jeshu Meshiha. ²⁹ And if you are of the Meshiha, therefore are you the seed of Abraham, and heirs by the promise.

²² but that you put from you your former habitudes, the old man who is corrupt in deceitful lusts, ²³ and be renewed in the spirit of your minds, ²⁴ and wear the new man, who by Aloha is created in righteousness and in the sanctity of truth.[Vabchasyutho da-qushtho.]

²⁷ But you are the body of the Meshiha, and members in your place.

¹⁹ Or, know you not that your body is the temple of the Spirit of Holiness, who dwelleth in you, (even) Him whom you have received from Aloha? And you are not your own, ²⁰ for you are bought with the price; therefore glorify Aloha in your body and in your spirit, which are of Aloha.

¹ And see how great is the love of the Father toward us, that sons he hath called us, and also made us! Therefore the world doth not know us, because that it hath also not known him. ² MY beloved, now are we the sons of Aloha; and it is not manifest, as yet, what we are to become, but we know, that when he is manifested, in his likeness we are and see him, according to that which he is. ³ And every one who hath in him this hope, purifieth himself, as He is pure.

¹⁰ For we are his creation, who are created in Jeshu Meshiha unto good works, which Aloha hath prepared before, that in them we should walk.

⁹ But you are a chosen race, who minister as priests to the kingdom,[Damkahno lemalkutho.] a holy people, a congregation redeemed to announce the praises of him who hath called you from darkness to his transcendant light:

²⁰ and from henceforth I live not, but in me liveth Meshiha; and this that I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of Aloha, who loved me and gave himself for me.

¹⁷ Whoever therefore is in the Meshiha is a new creature; the old things have passed,