100 Bible Verses About Identity
Bible verses about Identity
Discovering your true identity is a profound journey illuminated by the wisdom of scripture. The Bible offers a transformative perspective, revealing that your worth is not defined by earthly standards but by God's unwavering love and purpose for you. Understanding your identity in Christ transcends fleeting emotions and societal pressures, grounding you in a reality that is eternal and unshakeable. Through these verses, explore the depths of your being as a beloved child of God, created with intention and filled with potential. Embrace the freedom that comes from knowing who you are in His eyes, and live a life empowered by divine purpose.
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Isaiah 43:7 (KJV)
Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
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And the LORD said, Behold, the people [is] one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
and the law is not by faith, but--The man who did them shall live in them.'
Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for apprehension of those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Lo, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, an affirmation of Jehovah, A nation--strong it is , a nation--from of old it is , A nation--thou knowest not its tongue, Nor understandest what it speaketh.
Now, lo, thou hast trusted for thee on the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; which a man leaneth on, and it hath gone into his hand, and pierced it! --so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all those trusting on him.
As every man hath received the gift, [even so] minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
I have remembered thy name, O Lord, in the night, and have kept thy law.
and Jehovah bringeth us out from Egypt, by a strong hand, and by a stretched-out arm, and by great fear, and by signs, and by wonders,
because of the wine of the wrath of her whoredom have all the nations drunk, and the kings of the earth with her did commit whoredom, and merchants of the earth from the power of her revel were made rich.
As a beast into a valley goeth down, The Spirit of Jehovah causeth him to rest, So hast Thou led Thy people, To make to Thyself a glorious name.
When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.
if then the equal gift God did give to them as also to us, having believed upon the Lord Jesus Christ, I--how was I able to withstand God?'
And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then believed ye him not?
Yet the Lord testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?
Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
and the hand of Midian is strong against Israel, from the presence of Midian have the sons of Israel made for themselves the flowings which are in the mountains, and the caves, and the strongholds.
They united with their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;
To offer burnt-offerings to the LORD upon the altar of the burnt-offering continually morning and evening, and [to do] according to all that is written in the law of the LORD, which he commanded Israel;
And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.
For he hath said, By the power of my hand I have wrought, And by my wisdom, for I have been intelligent, And I remove borders of the peoples, And their chief ones I have spoiled, And I put down as a mighty one the inhabitants,
and the rest of the people he hath given into the hand of Abishai his brother, and setteth in array to meet the Bene-Ammon.
He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
Who [is] a God like to thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth [in] mercy.
Heleb the son of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai out of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,
But the children of the murderers he slew not: according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, in which the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
Every man is brutish by [his] knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them.
To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other--law he hath fulfilled,
For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
Ah, Lord Jehovah, lo, Thou hast made the heavens and the earth by Thy great power, and by Thy stretched-out arm; there is nothing too wonderful for Thee:
And Moses calleth for Joshua, and saith unto him before the eyes of all Israel, Be strong and courageous, for thou--thou dost go in with this people unto the land which Jehovah hath sworn to their fathers to give to them, and thou--thou dost cause them to inherit it;
Who bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow.
And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones. And his name spread far abroad; for he was helped in a wonderful manner, till he was strong.
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
Or hath God tried to go in to take to Himself, a nation from the midst of a nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a strong hand, and by a stretched-out arm, and by great terrors--according to all that Jehovah your God hath done to you, in Egypt, before your eyes?
And she put her widow’s garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.
Beat your plow-shares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I [am] strong.
There is one lawgiver, who is able to save, and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the Lord, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the Lord given by Moses.
Her mouth she hath opened in wisdom, And the law of kindness is on her tongue.
Lo, here am I; testify against me, over-against Jehovah, and over-against His anointed; whose ox have I taken, and whose ass have I taken, and whom have I oppressed; whom have I bruised, and of whose hand have I taken a ransom, and hide mine eyes with it? --and I restore to you.'
Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, see, they [are] written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.
having known that, not with corruptible things--silver or gold--were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers,
And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?
But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.
With a strong hand, and with an out-stretched arm: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.
And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.
That thy eyes may be open towards this house night and day, [even] towards the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken to the prayer which thy servant shall make towards this place.
And declared [to be] the Son of God, with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.
how are ye able--ye--to believe, glory from one another receiving, and the glory that is from God alone ye seek not?
Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.
Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.
Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
Causing ministers to go away a spoil And strong ones He overthroweth.
[And] having despoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.
By pureness, by knowledge, by long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by love unfeigned,
And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.
for I through law, did die, that to God I may live;
Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.
We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.
And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, Men, brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.
Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?
Who coverest [thyself] with light as [with] a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
But the houses of the villages which have no walls around them, shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee.
all the days of the desolation it resteth that which it hath not rested in your sabbaths in your dwelling on it.
wherefore I am well pleased in infirmities, in damages, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses--for Christ; for whenever I am infirm, then I am powerful;
Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.
O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.
And Moses answered and said, But behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken to my voice: for they will say, The LORD hath not appeared to thee.
(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
Of the sons also of Adin; Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty males.
I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah.
But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin [was] dead.
And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?
That thou inquirest after my iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
And the Lord shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you.
for sin over you shall not have lordship, for ye are not under law, but under grace.
And now, surely, true, that I am a redeemer, but also there is a redeemer nearer than I.
And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name.
O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
If I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do to morrow as the king hath said.
Thou shalt arise, [and] have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favor her, yes, the set time, is come.
And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?
In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod [is] for the back of him that is void of understanding.
The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
[If] a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rageth or laugheth, [there is] no rest.
Of how much more severe punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, by which he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite to the Spirit of grace?
For our exhortation [was] not from deceit, nor from impurity, nor in guile;
But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
For David said, The Lord God of Israel hath given rest unto his people, that they may dwell in Jerusalem for ever:
And Rab-shakeh said to them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence [is] this in which thou trustest?
These Bible verses on identity reveal a profound truth: our worth and belonging are not found in fleeting achievements, societal approval, or even our own understanding, but are securely anchored in God. Whether reminding us that we are fearfully and wonderfully made, chosen and loved unconditionally, or recreated in Christ, these passages point to a divine origin and purpose for our existence. Reflecting on these truths allows us to break free from the chains of insecurity and self-doubt, embracing the confident and joyful life God intended. May these verses serve as a constant reminder of your inherent value and empower you to live boldly as the unique and cherished individual you were created to be, reflecting God's light and love into the world. Strive to embody this identity, allowing it to shape your actions, relationships, and perspective on life.