28 Bible Verses about Divinity
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His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through the full knowledge of the one who called us by his own glory and excellence.
Through these he has given us his precious and wonderful promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, seeing that you have escaped the corruption that is in the world caused by evil desires.
Instead, poured out in emptiness, a servant's form did he possess, a mortal man becoming. In human form he chose to be,
So if we are God's children, we shouldn't think that the divine being is like gold, silver, or stone, or is an image carved by humans using their own imagination and skill.
For since the creation of the world God's invisible attributes his eternal power and divine nature have been understood and observed by what he made, so that people are without excuse.
In God's own form existed he, and shared with God equality, deemed nothing needed grasping.
Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, before there was an Abraham, I AM!"
he predestined us for adoption to himself through Jesus the Messiah, according to the pleasure of his will,
But every spirit who does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist. You have heard that he is coming, and now he is already in the world.
I am jealous of you with God's own jealousy, because I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to the Messiah.
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
For the Scripture says about Pharaoh, "I have raised you up for this very purpose, to demonstrate my power through you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."
God takes his stand in the divine assembly; among the divine beings he renders judgment:
Meanwhile, Jesus kept on growing wiser and more mature, and in favor with God and his fellow man.
Whenever a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD and the oracle does not come about or the word is not fulfilled, then the LORD has not spoken it. The prophet will have spoken presumptuously, so you need not fear him."
because while the Law was given through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus the Messiah.
O how deep are God's riches, and wisdom, and knowledge! How unfathomable are his decisions and unexplainable are his ways!
In the beginning, the Word existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Her leaders judge for the money, her priests teach only when they're paid, and her prophets prophesy for cash. Even so, don't they all rely on the LORD as they ask, "The LORD is among us, is he not? Nothing bad can possibly happen to us!'
"Neither," he answered. "I have come as commander of the LORD's Army." Joshua immediately fell on his face to the earth and worshipped, saying to him, "Lord, what do you have for your servant by way of command?"
The Law of the LORD is perfect, restoring life. The testimony of the LORD is steadfast, making foolish people wise.
Say to those with anxious hearts, "Be strong, do not be afraid! Here is your God he will bring vengeance, he will bring divine retribution, and he will save you.'
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Christ » Divinity » Example of
Therefore, holy brothers, partners in a heavenly calling, keep your focus on Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession.
Now I myself, Paul, plead with you with the gentleness and kindness of the Messiah I who am humble when I am face to face with you but forceful toward you when I am away!
Place my yoke on you and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble, and you will find rest for your souls,
Then Jesus told his disciples, "If anyone wants to follow me, he must deny himself, pick up his cross, and follow me continuously.
Christ » Divinity » Christ's Dominion » Exaltation » Heavenly places
who has gone to heaven and is at the right hand of God, where angels, authorities, and powers have been made subject to him.
You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. That is why God, your God, anointed you rather than your companions with the oil of gladness."
"Therefore, let all the people of Israel understand beyond a doubt that God made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah!"
So the Lord Jesus, after talking with his disciples, was taken up to heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.
Christ » Divinity » Kingdom of
They will wage war against the lamb, but the lamb will conquer them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings. Those who are called, chosen, and faithful are with him."
I tell all of you with certainty, some people standing here will not experience death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom."
so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit down on thrones to govern the twelve tribes of Israel."
Then he went on to plead, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom!"
Jesus answered, "My kingdom does not belong to this world. If my kingdom belonged to this world, my servants would fight to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish leaders. But for now my kingdom is not from here."
Christ » Eternal » Divinity » pre-existence
"As for you, Bethlehem of Ephrathah, even though you remain least among the clans of Judah, nevertheless, the one who rules in Israel for me will emerge from you. His existence has been from antiquity, even from eternity.
Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am and to see my glory, which you gave me because you loved me before the creation of the world.
In the beginning, the Word existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, before there was an Abraham, I AM!"
Christ » Divinity » Liberator
For the Spirit's law of life in the Messiah Jesus has set me free from the Law of sin and death.
The Messiah has set us free so that we may enjoy the benefits of freedom. So keep on standing firm in it, and stop putting yourselves under the yoke of slavery again.
Jesus was driving a demon out of a man who was unable to talk. When the demon had gone out, the man began to speak, and the crowds were amazed.
Divinity » Of Christ » Testimony of the apostles
By common confession, the secret of our godly worship is great: In flesh was he revealed to sight, kept righteous by the Spirit's might, adored by angels singing. To nations was he manifest, believing souls found peace and rest, our Lord in heaven reigning!
The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
Simon Peter answered, "You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God!"
In the beginning, the Word existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. He existed in the beginning with God.
and was declared by the resurrection from the dead to be the powerful Son of God according to the spirit of holiness Jesus the Messiah, our Lord.
Divinity » His foreknowledge » His pre-eminence
However, Jesus has now obtained a more superior ministry, since the covenant he mediates is founded on better promises.
saying, "Write on a scroll what you see, and send it to the seven churches: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea."
I am baptizing you with water as evidence of repentance, but the one who is coming after me is stronger than I am, and I am not worthy to carry his sandals. It is he who will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
The one who comes from above is superior to everything. The one who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks about earthly things. The one who comes from heaven is superior to everything.
Divinity » His foreknowledge » His lordship
Faithful is the God by whom you were called into fellowship with his Son Jesus the Messiah, our Lord.
"Therefore, let all the people of Israel understand beyond a doubt that God made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah!"
God has exalted to his right hand this very man as our Leader and Savior in order to extend repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.
Then he told them, "The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath."
Divinity » His foreknowledge » Foretells his departure
Then Jesus said, "I'll be with you only a little while longer, and then I'm going back to the one who sent me.
You have heard me tell you, "I'm going away, but I'm coming back to you.' If you loved me, you would rejoice that I'm going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.
"But now I am going to the one who sent me. Yet none of you asks me, "Where are you going?'
I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by your Name, the Name that you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are one.
Little children, I'm with you only a little longer. You will look for me, but what I told the Jewish leaders I now tell you, "Where I'm going, you cannot come.'
Divinity » Divine names ascribed to Christ » Beloved son
God has rescued us from the power of darkness and has brought us into the kingdom of the Son whom he loves,
"Here is my Servant whom I have chosen, whom I love, and with whom I am pleased! I will put my Spirit on him, and he will proclaim justice to unbelievers.
He was still speaking when a bright cloud suddenly overshadowed them. A voice from the cloud said, "This is my Son, whom I love. I am pleased with him. Keep on listening to him!"
Divinity » Of Christ » His own words
But from now on the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the mighty God." Then they all asked, "Are you, then, the Son of God?" He answered them, "You said it I AM."
If I'm not doing my Father's actions, don't believe me. But if I'm doing them, even though you don't believe me, believe the actions, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father."
The one who sees me sees the one who sent me.
If you have known me, you will also know my Father. From now on you know him and have seen him." Philip told him, "Lord, show us the Father, and that will satisfy us." "Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me?" Jesus asked him. "The person who has seen me has seen the Father. So how can you say, "Show us the Father'? read more.
You believe, don't you, that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I don't speak on my own. It is the Father who dwells in me and who carries out his work.
Divinity » Of Christ » The father bears witness
He was still speaking when a bright cloud suddenly overshadowed them. A voice from the cloud said, "This is my Son, whom I love. I am pleased with him. Keep on listening to him!"
There is another who testifies about me, and I know that the testimony he gives about me is true.
Moreover, the Father who sent me has himself testified on my behalf. You have never heard his voice or seen what he looks like,
Divinity » Divine names ascribed to Christ » King of kings
and from Jesus the Messiah, the witness, the faithful one, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood
They will wage war against the lamb, but the lamb will conquer them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings. Those who are called, chosen, and faithful are with him."
At the right time, he will make him known. God is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords.
On his robe that covers his thigh he has a name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS
Divinity » Seven scriptural witnesses to » Evil spirits confess his divinity
Suddenly, they screamed, "What do you want with us, Son of God? Did you come here to torture us before the proper time?"
"What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are the Holy One of God!"
Whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they would fall down in front of him and scream, "You are the Son of God!"
Even demons came out of many people, screaming, "You are the Son of God!" But Jesus rebuked them and ordered them not to speak, because they knew he was the Messiah.
But the evil spirit told them, "Jesus I know, and I am getting acquainted with Paul, but who are you?"
Divinity » For other titles relating to his divinity special marks of divinity » His authority
because he was teaching them like a person who had authority, and not like their scribes.
Then Jesus approached them and told them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
All the people were so stunned that they kept saying to each other, "What is this? A new teaching with authority! He tells even the unclean spirits what to do, and they obey him!"
Divinity » Christ's Dominion » Over nature
All the people were so stunned that they kept saying to each other, "What is this? A new teaching with authority! He tells even the unclean spirits what to do, and they obey him!"
The men were amazed. "What kind of man is this?" they asked. "Even the winds and the sea obey him!"
Divinity » Challenged » By the jewish people
So the Jewish leaders were trying all the harder to kill him, because he was not only breaking the Sabbath but was also calling God his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.
You aren't greater than our father Abraham, who died, are you? The prophets also died. Who are you making yourself out to be?"
The Jewish leaders answered him, "We are not going to stone you for a good action, but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, are making yourself God!"
Divinity » Christ's Dominion » Eternal
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name is called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the growth of his government and peace there will be no end. He will rule over his kingdom, sitting on the throne of David, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness from this time onward and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies will accomplish this.
To him dominion was bestowed, along with glory and a kingdom, so that all nations, nations, and languages are to serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion it will never pass away and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed."
Divinity » Challenged » By satan
Then the tempter came. "Since you are the Son of God," he said, "tell these stones to become loaves of bread."
He told Jesus, "Since you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, because it is written, "God will put his angels in charge of you,' and, "With their hands they will hold you up, so that you will never hit your foot against a rock.'"
Divinity » Challenged » On the crossby the rabble
Those who passed by kept insulting him, shaking their heads, and saying, "You who were going to destroy the sanctuary and rebuild it in three days save yourself! If you're the Son of God, come down from the cross!"
Divinity » Christ's Dominion » Over the church
God has put everything under the Messiah's feet and has made him the head of everything for the good of the church,
Divinity » Christ's Dominion » Universal
I will banish chariots from Ephraim and horses from Jerusalem. War weapons will be banished, and your king will speak peace to the nations. His dominion will extend from sea to sea, and from the River to the farthest portion of the earth.
Divinity » Acknowledged » By peter
Simon Peter answered, "You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God!"
Divinity » Challenged » By the soldiers
The soldiers also made fun of Jesus by coming up and offering him sour wine, saying, "If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself!"
Divinity » Challenged » By the chief priests
In the same way, the high priests, along with the scribes, were also making fun of him among themselves. They kept saying, "He saved others, but can't save himself! Let the Messiah, the king of Israel, come down from the cross now, since seeing is believing!" Even the men who were crucified with him kept insulting him.
Divinity » Christ's Dominion » Over heavenly powers
who has gone to heaven and is at the right hand of God, where angels, authorities, and powers have been made subject to him.
Divinity » Challenged » By the scribes and elders
One day, while Jesus was teaching the people in the Temple and telling them the good news, the high priests and the scribes came with the elders and asked him, "Tell us: By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?"
Divinity » Seven scriptural witnesses to » The holy spirit
"When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father the Spirit of Truth, who comes from the Father he will testify on my behalf.
Divinity » Seven scriptural witnesses to » Believers
Divinity » Acknowledged » By martha
"Yes, Lord," she told him. "I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one who was to come into the world."
Divinity » Acknowledged » By thomas
Divinity » Acknowledged » By the centurion
When the centurion who stood facing Jesus saw how he had cried out and breathed his last, he said, "This man certainly was the Son of God!"
Divinity » Challenged » By one of the thieves
Now one of the criminals hanging there kept insulting him, "You are the Messiah, aren't you? Save yourself"and us!"
Divinity » Challenged » By the rulers
Meanwhile, the people stood looking on. The leaders were mocking him by saying, "He saved others. Let him save himself, if he is the Messiah of God, the chosen one!"
Divinity » Seven scriptural witnesses to » Jesus Christ himself
Jesus answered them, "Even though I'm testifying about myself, my testimony is valid because I know where I've come from and where I'm going. But you don't know where I come from or where I'm going.
Divinity » Seven scriptural witnesses to » The works of Christ
"But I have a greater testimony than John's, because the actions that the Father has given me to complete the very actions that I am doing testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me.
Divinity » Seven scriptural witnesses to » The old testament
You examine the Scriptures carefully because you suppose that in them you have eternal life. Yet they testify about me.
Divinity » Seven scriptural witnesses to » John the baptist
I have seen this and have testified that this is the Son of God."
Divinity » Seven scriptural witnesses to » The father
Moreover, the Father who sent me has himself testified on my behalf. You have never heard his voice or seen what he looks like,
Divinity » Acknowledged » By the samaritans
They kept telling the woman, "It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, because now we have heard him ourselves, and we know that he really is the Savior of the world."
Divinity » Acknowledged » By nathanael
Divinity » Challenged » By scribes and pharisees
The scribes and the Pharisees began to argue among themselves, saying, "Who is this man who is uttering blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"
Divinity » Acknowledged » By demons
screaming in a loud voice, "What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you in the name of God never to torment me!"
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