Our Identity

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

¹³For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. ¹⁴I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

¹⁵For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. ¹⁶The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: ¹⁷And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

⁴According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: ⁵Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

¹⁹What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? ²⁰For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.