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19 Bible Verses About Who God Says I Am and Who I Am in Christ

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  • Chosen people, royal priesthood, holy nation, ambassadors: the best-known identity verses describe a group, and were written to congregations.
  • Jeremiah 1:5 is a commissioning to one man for one job, and he replied that he could not speak and was too young.
  • Romans 8:15-16 sets adoption against slavery and ends with the Spirit testifying alongside ours.
  • Peter hands scattered gentiles four phrases God had used of Israel at Sinai.
  • The yoke Galatians 5:1 warns about is rule-keeping; the next verse is about circumcision.

Many of the best-known identity verses describe a group rather than a person: a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, ambassadors. That does not make them less true of any one reader. It means they were written to congregations, and they describe a standing rather than a state of mind. The nineteen verses below start before anybody has done anything, with the image of God in Genesis, then cover what changed and when, the family words, the collective…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

Jeremiah’s reply is at Jeremiah 1:6.

The chapter behind the “therefore” of Romans 8:1 is Romans 7:14-25.

The four phrases of 1 Peter 2:9 are drawn from Exodus 19:5-6 and Isaiah 43:20-21.

Philippi’s status as a Roman colony is recorded at Acts 16:12.

The famine, nakedness and sword are listed at Romans 8:35.

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