19 Bible Verses About Being the Best Version of Yourself



  • Ephesians 4:22-24 and Colossians 3:9-14 describe the change as taking off an old self and putting on a new one, “created to be like God.”
  • Romans 12:2 and 2 Corinthians 3:18 use the same Greek verb, metamorphoo, which Matthew 17:2 uses for Jesus’ transfiguration.
  • Colossians 3:10 says the new self is renewed “in the image of its Creator,” the image of Genesis 1:27.
  • Self-control, egkrateia, appears both in the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:23) and in the qualities Peter tells believers to add (2 Peter 1:6).
  • Paul says in Philippians 3:12 that he had not yet arrived, and Philippians 1:6 places the completion of God’s work at the day of Christ Jesus.

The Bible describes a person becoming what God made them to be as a change God works and the believer takes part in. Paul calls it putting on a new self “created to be like God” (Ephesians 4:24) and being “transformed by the renewing of your mind” (Romans 12:2). The pattern is the image of God in which people were first made (Genesis 1:27), and the change goes on “with ever-increasing glory” (2 Corinthians 3:18). The passages below also cover…

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