I have accepted my fair share of labels in life some were flattering and, well, others produced an incredible amount of Shame.
But through it all Christ gets the final say. As you read these words today, let them sink deep into your heart establishing who you truly are because of Jesus.
Who am we are in Christ verses
We are made right with God
“He made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”
2 Corinthians 5:21 CSB
“It is from him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom from God for us — our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption — ” 1 Corinthians 1:30 CSB
We are Children of God
“But to all who did receive him, he gave them the right to be children of God, to those who believe in his name,” John 1:12
“for through faith you are all sons of God in Christ Jesus. For those of you who were baptized into Christ have been clothed with Christ. There is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male and female; since you are all one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:26-28
“He predestined us to be adopted as sons through Jesus Christ for himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,” Ephesians 1:5
“See what great love the Father has given us that we should be called God’s children — and we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it didn’t know him.” 1 John 3:1
We are Loved
“But God proves his own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
Romans 5:8 CSB
“But God, who is rich in mercy, because of his great love that he had for us, made us alive with Christ even though we were dead in trespasses. You are saved by grace!”
Ephesians 2:4-5 CSB
We are Justified
“Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” Romans 5:1
“How much more then, since we have now been justified by his blood, will we be saved through him from wrath.”
Romans 5:9 CSB
We are New Creation
“Therefore we were buried with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in newness of life.” Romans 6:4
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!” 2 Corinthians 5:17
We are Longer Slaves to Sin
“For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be rendered powerless so that we may no longer be enslaved to sin,” Romans 6:6
We are Coheirs With Christ
“and if children, also heirs — heirs of God and coheirs with Christ — if indeed we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.” Romans 8:17
“so that, having been justified by his grace, we may become heirs with the hope of eternal life.” Titus 3:7
We are the Body of Christ
“Now you are the body of Christ, and individual members of it. 1 Corinthians 12:27
“Now as we have many parts in one body, and all the parts do not have the same function, in the same way we who are many are one body in Christ and individually members of one another.”
Romans 12:4-5 CSB
We are Redeemed
“In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace” Ephesians 1:7
“Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, because it is written, Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”
Galatians 3:13 CSB
“Therefore, he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance, because a death has taken place for redemption from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.”
Hebrews 9:15 CSB
Created for Good Works
“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time for us to do.”
Ephesians 2:10
We are members of God’s house hold
“So, then, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with the saints, and members of God’s household,”
Ephesians 2:19
We are Chosen by God
“For he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in love before him.” Ephesians 1:4 CSB
“But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.” 1 Peter 2:9
We are a friends of God
I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. John 15:15 NIV
