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17 Bible Verses About Who We Are

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  • Genesis 1:27 says God created mankind, male and female, in his image, and Genesis 9:6 and James 3:9 still appeal to that image when forbidding murder and cursing.
  • Psalm 139:13-16 places God’s knowledge of a person in the womb, before any of that person’s days had come to be.
  • John 1:12-13 says the right to become children of God is given to those who receive Christ, who are “born of God.”
  • Romans 6:3-4 links dying and rising with Christ to baptism, and Galatians 2:20 describes the same death in the first person.
  • 1 Peter 2:9 gives believers the titles Exodus 19:5-6 gave Israel: a kingdom of priests, a holy nation and God’s own possession.

The Bible says human beings are made by God in his own image and known by him before they are born. Genesis 1:27 states the first, Psalm 139:13-16 the second, and Psalm 8:4-5 adds that God has crowned them “with glory and honor.” The New Testament adds what belonging to Christ makes of a person: a child of God (John 1:12; 1 John 3:1), someone who has died with Christ and lives a new life (Romans 6:4; Galatians 2:20), a…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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