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17 Bible Verses About Identity

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  • Genesis 1:26-27 says God made human beings, male and female, in his own image and joined that image to dominion over the earth.
  • John 1:12-13 says those who received Christ were given the right to become children of God, born “not of blood” but of God.
  • 2 Corinthians 5:17 calls anyone in Christ a new creation, and verse 18 says “All this is from God.”
  • 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 says a believer’s body is a temple of the Holy Spirit and belongs to God because it was “bought with a price.”
  • 1 Peter 2:9-10 gives believers titles for God’s people and describes the change as “Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people.”

The Bible places a person’s identity in God’s making and, for those who believe in Christ, in their relationship to him. Genesis 1:27 says human beings are made in the image of God, and Psalm 139:13-14 praises God for forming one person in the womb. The New Testament calls believers children of God (John 1:12, 1 John 3:1), a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17), people who belong to God because they were “bought with a price” (1 Corinthians 6:20), and…

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Scripture quotations are from the English Standard Version.

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