50 Bible Verses About Our Identity As Christians

Published Oct 3, 2021

One of life’s most common and most complex question is “who are you?”. If someone asks you that question now, you’ll probably answer with your name and any other vital information. Though they distinguish us from the rest, those pieces of information do not define us. Nor do they fully encapsulate our identities.

You see, each of us is known by different identities to different people. To your parents, you are a son or a daughter. To your children, you are a father or a mother. You can also be a friend, a teacher, a neighbor, or a co-worker.

But as Christians, our identity is one in Christ. When we accept Him, we are reborn in His grace. We lose our individual identities and embrace our identity in Him. We become defined by how God sees us, rather than the labels that society gives us. This new identity empowers us and makes us whole and complete.

When you start to live your life in God’s truth, it gives you the freedom to be yourself. You stop caring about how others see you because what matters is who you are in the eyes of God. He created you in His image and likeness. Thus, in His eyes, you are perfect.

If you’re still having doubts about your identity as a Christian, here are 50 bible verses about our identity in Christ to help you see yourself just as how God sees you:

1. Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations. – Jeremiah 1:5
2. For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.  – Matthew 12:50
3. 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
4. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, 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 2:4-5
5. Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God. – 1 Peter 2:16
6. 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. Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure. – 1 John 3:1-3
7. Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows. – Matthew 10:31
8. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. – Genesis 1:27
9. She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her. – Proverbs 3:5
10. 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
11. If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. – Colossians 3:1-4
12. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. – Colossians 3:3
13. 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
14. 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— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. – Ephesians 2:4-6
15. But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. – 1 Corinthians 6:17
16. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. – Psalm 139:14
17. For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. – Psalm 139:13-14
18. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. – Romans 6:6
19. And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise. – Galatians 3:29
20. But now in Christ Jesus, you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. – Ephesians 2:13
21. But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it, we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. – Philippians 3:20
22. 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, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. – 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
23. But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” – 1 Samuel 16:7
24. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. – 2 Corinthians 5:7

25. Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? – Matthew 6:26