Bible verses about "identity" | Moffatt

¹⁵ I call you servants no longer, because a servant does not know what his master is doing: I call you friends, because I have imparted to you all that I have learned from my Father.

⁵ I am the vine, you are the branches. He who remains in me, as I in him, bears rich fruit (because apart from me you can do nothing).

²³ He said to all, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross day after day, and so follow me; ²⁴ for whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake, he will save it. ²⁵ What profit will it be for a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself? ²⁶ For whoever is ashamed of me and my words, of him will the Son of man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels. ²⁷ I tell you plainly, there are some of those standing here who will not taste death till they see the Reign of God."

²⁷ (for all of you who had yourselves baptized into Christ have taken on the character of Christ). ²⁸ There is no room for Jew or Greek, there is no room for slave or freeman, there is no room for male and female; you are all one in Christ Jesus. ²⁹ Now if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring; in virtue of the Promise, you are heirs.

¹ Since then you have been raised with Christ, aim at what is above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God; ² mind what is above, not what is on earth, ³ for you died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. ⁴ When Christ, who is our life, appears, then you will appear with him in glory.

²² you must lay aside the old nature which belonged to your former course of life, that nature which crumbles to ruin under the passions of moral deceit, ²³ and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴ putting on the new nature, that divine pattern which has been created in the upright and pious character of the Truth.

²⁷ Now you are Christ's Body, and severally members of it.

¹⁹ Do you not know your body is the temple of the holy Spirit within you — the Spirit you have received from God? You are not your own, ²⁰ you were bought for a price; then glorify God with your body.

¹ 'Born of him!' Think what a love the Father has for us, in letting us be called 'children of God!' That is what we are. The world does not recognize us? That is simply because it did not recognize him. ² We are children of God now, beloved; what we are to be is not apparent yet, but we do know that when he appears, we are to be like him — for we are to see him as he is. ³ And everyone who rests this hope on him, purifies himself as he is pure.

¹⁰ God has made us what we are, creating us in Christ Jesus for the good deeds which are prepared beforehand by God as our sphere of action.

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

⁹ But you are the elect race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, the People who belong to Him, that you may proclaim the wondrous deeds of Him who has called you from darkness to his wonderful light —

¹⁷ There is a new creation whenever a man comes to be in Christ; what is old is gone, the new has come.