What Does the Bible Say About Identity In Christ?

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 31 helpful votes

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

1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 27 helpful votes

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 23 helpful votes

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 19 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

John 1:12 ESV / 19 helpful votes

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

Colossians 3:3 ESV / 17 helpful votes

For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

2 Timothy 1:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,

2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 12 helpful votes

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

2 Corinthians 1:21-22 ESV / 12 helpful votes

And it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us, and who has also put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.

1 John 5:4-5 ESV / 10 helpful votes

For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

Hebrews 4:16 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Titus 3:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes

He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

Romans 8:17 ESV / 9 helpful votes

And if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.

John 15:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.

1 Peter 1:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Romans 6:1-4 ESV / 6 helpful votes

What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

John 15:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

1 John 2:28 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming.

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

Colossians 3:10-11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.

Ephesians 5:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.

Ephesians 1:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love

2 Corinthians 3:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God,

Romans 8:37 ESV / 5 helpful votes

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

John 15:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Colossians 1:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

Colossians 1:13-14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Ephesians 2:5-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

Ephesians 1:5-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

He predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.

1 Corinthians 12:12-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?

1 Corinthians 3:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building.

Romans 8:39 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:29 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Romans 8:14-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

John 15:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Revelation 2:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it.’

Hebrews 12:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

1 Thessalonians 4:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

Colossians 2:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority.

Colossians 2:6-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Ephesians 1:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,

Ephesians 1:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,

Ephesians 1:1-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, ...

2 Corinthians 9:7-8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.

2 Corinthians 5:18-19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.

2 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.

1 Corinthians 15:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand,

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 8:31-34 ESV / 3 helpful votes

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.

John 8:31-32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Ephesians 3:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him.

Romans 8:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.

Romans 6:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Romans 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 3:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

John 5:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

62 Bible Verses about Identity In Christ

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 44 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 31 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 27 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 1:12 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 3:3 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 1:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 1:21-22 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 5:4-5 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 4:16 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Titus 3:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 8:17 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 15:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 1:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 6:1-4 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 15:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 2:28 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 3:10-11 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 1:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 3:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 8:37 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 15:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 1:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 1:13-14 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 2:5-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 1:5-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 12:12-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 3:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 8:39 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 8:29 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 8:14-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 15:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 2:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 12:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Thessalonians 4:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 2:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 2:6-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 1:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 1:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 1:1-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 9:7-8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 5:18-19 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 15:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 12:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 8:31-34 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 8:31-32 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 3:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 8:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 6:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 3:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 5:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Suggest a Verse

Enter a Verse Reference (e.g., John 3:16-17)