Who I Am

Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?

If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, you are also an heir through God.

But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—

No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.

You will be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, a royal diadem in the palm of your God. …

Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.

But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,