One of the greatest questions every person faces is the question of identity: Who am I? We can define ourselves by what we think, by what others say, or by what God says. The Bible teaches that we were all born in the image of Adam—spiritually dead and empty, like a jar without life. Because of this, we often base our identity on our job, our past, our behavior, or our religion. But in Christ, everything changes.
Those who are born again are new creations, filled with the Spirit of God, and defined by who God says they are—not by labels, performance, or failure.
CHRIST LIVES IN YOU
Galatians 2:20 — I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Galatians 4:6 — Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba Father.”
Romans 8:9 — You however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.
Colossians 1:27 — To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Romans 8:10 — But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.
NEW CREATION / BORN AGAIN / MARKED
2 Corinthians 5:17 — Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
John 3:5–6 — Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.” You should not be surprised at my saying, “You must be born again.”
1 Peter 1:3 — Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
1 Peter 1:23 — For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
James 1:18 — He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.
Ephesians 1:13-14 — And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory.
RAISED WITH CHRIST / UNITED WITH HIM
Ephesians 2:4–6 — But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus.
Colossians 2:12 — Having been buried with him in baptism and raised with him through your faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.
Colossians 3:1 — Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
YOU ARE A FORGIVEN PERSON
Ephesians 1:7 — In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace.
Colossians 1:13–14 — For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Matthew 26:28 — This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
Hebrews 8:12 — For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.
Romans 4:7–8 (NLT) — “Blessed are those whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are put out of God’s sight. Blessed is the one whose sin the Lord will never count against them.”
LOVED, CHOSEN, ACCEPTED AS CHILDREN OF GOD
Romans 8:15–16 — For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit.
Ephesians
Ephesians 1:4 — For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.
Ephesians 1:6 (KJV) — To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
John 1:12 — Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.
UNITED WITH HIM IN HIS RESURRECTION
Romans 6:5 — If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection.
2 Corinthians 4:14 — Because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in his presence.
Philippians 3:10–11 — I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Romans 8:11 — And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.
RIGHTEOUS, HOLY, COMPLETE, JUSTIFIED
1 Corinthians 1:30 — It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption.
2 Corinthians 5:21 — God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Colossians 2:10 — And you have been given fullness in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority.
Hebrews 10:14 — For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.
Romans 5:1 — Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand.
1 Corinthians 6:11 — And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
FREE, ALIVE, EMPOWERED
Romans 8:1 — Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
John 8:36 — So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
Galatians 5:1 — It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
Romans 8:2 — Because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.
2 Corinthians 3:17 — Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
1 Peter 2:16 — Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as God’s slaves.
PURPOSE AND CALLING
Romans 8:28 — And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
Ephesians 2:10 — For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Philippians 3:14 — I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 1:9 — He has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time.
1 Corinthians 1:9 — God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
1 Peter 2:9 — But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
