Bible verses about "identity" | Goodspeed

¹⁵ I do not call you slaves any longer, for a slave does not know what his master is doing, but now I call you friends, for I have made known to you everything that I have learned from my Father.

⁵ I am the vine, you are the branches. Anyone who remains united to me, with me united to him, will be very fruitful, for you cannot do anything apart from me.

²³ And he said to everyone, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself, and take his cross day after day and follow me. ²⁴ For whoever wants to preserve his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for me will preserve it. ²⁵ What good does it do a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself? ²⁶ For if anyone is ashamed of me and my teaching the Son of Man will be ashamed of him, when he comes with all the glory of his Father and of the holy angels. ²⁷ I tell you, some of you who stand here will certainly live to see the Kingdom of God!"

¹ If, then, you have been raised to life with Christ, set your hearts on the things that are where Christ is, above, seated at God's right hand. ² Fix your thoughts on the things that are above, not on those that are on earth. ³ For you have died, and your life now lies hidden with Christ in God. ⁴ When Christ, who is our true life, shall make his appearance, then you also will appear glorified with him.

²⁷ For all of you who have been baptized into union with Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. ²⁸ There is no room for "Jew" and "Greek"; there is no room for "slave" and "freeman"; there is no room for "male" and "female"; for in union with Christ Jesus you are all one. ²⁹ And if you belong to Christ, then you are true descendants of Abraham and his heirs under the promise.

²² You must lay aside with your former habits your old self which is going to ruin through its deceptive passions. ²³ You must adopt a new attitude of mind, ²⁴ and put on the new self which has been created in likeness to God, with all the uprightness and holiness that belong to the truth.

²⁷ Now you are Christ's body, and individually parts of it.

¹⁹ Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the holy Spirit that is within you, which you have received from God? Besides, you are not your own; ²⁰ you have been bought and paid for. Therefore, honor God with your bodies.

¹ Think what love the Father has had for us, in letting us be called God's children, for that is what we are. This is why the world does not know what we are—because it has never come to know him. ² Dear friends, we are God's children now; it has not yet been disclosed what we are to be. We know that if he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. ³ And everyone who possesses this hope in him tries to make himself as pure as he is.

¹⁰ For he has made us, creating us through our union with Christ Jesus for the life of goodness which God had predestined us to live.

⁹ But you are the chosen race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, his own people, so that you may declare the virtues of him who has called you out of darkness into his wonderful light;

²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me. The life I am now living in the body I am living by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.

¹⁷ So if anyone is in union with Christ, he is a new being; the old state of things has passed away; there is a new state of things.