baptism

Your Identity in Christ

Your Identity in Christ

Fellow Heir with Christ

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.

–Romans 8:17

So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.

–Galatians 4:7

Justified

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

–Romans 5:1

Friend of Christ

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 15:15

Citizen of Heaven

But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.

–Philippians 3:20

Temple of God

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

–1 Corinthians 3:16

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own.

–1 Corinthians 6:19

Ambassador for Christ

Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

–2 Corinthians 5:20

One Spirit with Christ

But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.

–1 Corinthians 6:17

New Creature

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

–2 Corinthians 5:17

Righteousness of God

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 5:21

One with all believers

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

–Galatians 3:28

Free

For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

–Galatians 5:1

Blessed with Every Spiritual Blessing

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 1:3

Chosen, Holy, and Blameless Before God

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

–Ephesians 1:4

Loved and Chosen

For we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you.

–1 Thessalonians 1:4

Redeemed

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace.

–Ephesians 1:7

Forgiven

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace.

–Ephesians 1:7

Sealed with the Holy Spirit

In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit.

–Ephesians 1:13

Alive with Christ

Even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved.

–Ephesians 2:5

God’s Workmanship

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

–Ephesians 2:10

Complete in Christ

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

–Colossians 2:10

Raised with Christ

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

–Colossians 3:1

Christ is My Life

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.

–Galatians 2:20

When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

–Colossians 3:4

Child of God

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

–John 1:12

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!” The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 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.

–Romans 8:15-17

So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.

–Galatians 4:7

He predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will.

–Ephesians 1:5