Who are you, really? Our identity can easily become shaped by what we achieve, what others think of us, our past, our struggles, or the roles we carry. But the Bible points us to a deeper and more lasting truth: our identity is found in God and in who He says we are.
The verses below highlight different truths about our identity in Christ—who God calls us, how He sees us, and what He has given us through Him. As you read each verse, take a moment to reflect on the identity God has given you and allow His Word to shape the way you see yourself.
Child of God, loved
“But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,”
John 1:12 | ESV
“See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.”
1 John 3:1 | ESV
Child of the light
“For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness.”
1 Thessalonians 5:5 | ESV
Whole
“For in Christ lives all the fullness of God in a human body. So you also are complete through your union with Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.”
Colossians 2:9-10 | NLT
Sonship
“he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,”
Ephesians 1:5 ESV
Accepted
“Therefore, accept each other just as Christ has accepted you so that God will be given glory.”
Romans 15:7 | NLT
Known, Formed, Set apart, Appointed
““I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb. Before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as my prophet to the nations.””
Jeremiah 1:5 | NLT
Free from sin
“We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin.”
Romans 6:6 | NLT
Image of God
“So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.”
Genesis 1:27 | NLT
Hidden with Christ
“Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits in the place of honor at God’s right hand. Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth. For you died to this life, and your real life is hidden with Christ in God.”
Colossians 3:1-3 | NLT
Body of Christ
“All of you together are Christ’s body, and each of you is a part of it.”
1 Corinthians 12:27 | NLT
Chosen, Royal priesthood, Holy, God’s special possession
“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.”
1 Peter 2:9 | ESV
Baptised into Christ, one in Christ
“And all who have been united with Christ in baptism have put on Christ, like putting on new clothes. There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.”
Galatians 3:27-28 | NLT
Temple of the Holy Spirit
“Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.”
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 | NLT
One with Christ
“But the person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him.”
1 Corinthians 6:17 | NLT
New creation
“This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!”
2 Corinthians 5:17 | NLT
Masterpiece
“For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.”
Ephesians 2:10 | NLT
Friend of God
“I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me.”
John 15:15 | NLT
Righteous, Holy
“Put on your new nature, created to be like God—truly righteous and holy.”
Ephesians 4:24 | NLT
Son, Heir
“God sent him to buy freedom for us who were slaves to the law, so that he could adopt us as his very own children. And because we are his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, prompting us to call out, “Abba, Father.” Now you are no longer a slave but God’s own child. And since you are his child, God has made you his heir.”
Galatians 4:5-7 | NLT
“For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him, “Abba, Father.” For his Spirit joins with our spirit to affirm that we are God’s children. And since we are his children, we are his heirs. In fact, together with Christ we are heirs of God’s glory. But if we are to share his glory, we must also share his suffering.”
Romans 8:14-17 | NLT
Fearfully and wonderfully made
“Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.”
Psalms 139:14 | NLT
His creation, Redeemed
“But now, O Jacob, listen to the Lord who created you. O Israel, the one who formed you says, “Do not be afraid, for I have ransomed you. I have called you by name; you are mine.”
Isaiah 43:1 | NLT
Holy, Blameless, Chosen
“even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love”
Ephesians 1:4 | ESV
Chosen
“Since God chose you to be the holy people he loves, you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.”
Colossians 3:12 | NLT
“You didn’t choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name.”
John 15:16 | NLT
Seated in Heavenly places with Him
“For he raised us from the dead along with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ Jesus.”
Ephesians 6:2 | NLT
Members of God’s household
“So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,”
Ephesians 2:19 | ESV
His people
“Acknowledge that the Lord is God! He made us, and we are his. We are his people, the sheep of his pasture.”
Psalms 100:3 | NLT
Established, Anointed, Sealed
“It is God who enables us, along with you, to stand firm for Christ. He has commissioned us, and he has identified us as his own by placing the Holy Spirit in our hearts as the first installment that guarantees everything he has promised us.”
2 Corinthians 1:21-22 NLT
Loved
“may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.”
Ephesians 3:18-19 | ESV
Citizen of Heaven
“But we are citizens of heaven, where the Lord Jesus Christ lives. And we are eagerly waiting for him to return as our Savior.”
Philippians 3:20 | NLT
Children of the light
“For once you were full of darkness, but now you have light from the Lord. So live as people of light!”
Ephesians 5:8 | NLT
Redemption, forgiven
“For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,”
Ephesians 2:8 | ESV
Not forsaken
“The Lord will not abandon his people, because that would dishonor his great name. For it has pleased the Lord to make you his very own people.”
1 Samuel 12:22 | NLT
Triumphant
“For the sin of this one man, Adam, caused death to rule over many. But even greater is God’s wonderful grace and his gift of righteousness, for all who receive it will live in triumph over sin and death through this one man, Jesus Christ.”
Romans 5:17 | NLT
Work of His hand
“And yet, O Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you are the potter. We all are formed by your hand.”
Isaiah 64:8 | NLT
Not condemned
“So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus.”
Romans 8:1 | NLT
Pure, Holy, Free, Right
“God has united you with Christ Jesus. For our benefit God made him to be wisdom itself. Christ made us right with God; he made us pure and holy, and he freed us from sin.”
1 Corinthians 1:30 | NLT
Reconciled, Holy, blameless, without a single fault
“Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body. As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault.”
Colossians 1:22 | NLT
Valuable
“Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable to him than they are?”
Matthew 6:26 | NLT
Ambassador of Christ
“So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!””
2 Corinthians 5:20 | NLT
Minister of the new covenant
“He has enabled us to be ministers of his new covenant. This is a covenant not of written laws, but of the Spirit. The old written covenant ends in death; but under the new covenant, the Spirit gives life.”
2 Corinthians 3:6 | NLT
Loved, saved, alive
“But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—”
Ephesians 2:4-5
Living stones
“you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.”
1 Peter 2:5 | ESV
Fragile clay jars
“We now have this light shining in our hearts, but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great treasure. This makes it clear that our great power is from God, not from ourselves.”
2 Corinthians 4:7 | NLT
Sons of God
“For you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus.”
Galatians 3:26 | NLT