13 Bible Verses about Equality With God
Most Relevant Verses
This made the Jews all the more eager to kill him, because not only was he doing away with the Sabbath, but he actually called God his own Father--putting himself on an equality with God.
"Where is your father, then?" they asked. "You know neither me nor my Father," replied Jesus. "If you had known me, you would have also known my Father."
But Jesus had proclaimed: "He who believes in me believes, not in me, but in him who sent me;
"Have I been all this time among you," said Jesus, "and yet you, Philip, have not recognized me? He who has seen me has seen the Father, how can you say, then, 'Show us the Father'?
If I had not done among them such work as no one else ever did, they would have had no sin to answer for; but, as it is, they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.
He who hates me hates my Father also.
He who welcomes you is welcoming me; and he who welcomes me is welcoming him who sent me as his Messenger.
"Any one who, for the sake of my Name, welcomes even a little child like this is welcoming me, and any one who welcomes me is welcoming not me, but him who sent me as his Messenger."
In truth I tell you, he who receives any one that I send receives me; and he who receives me receives him who sent me."
He who listens to you is listening to me, and he who rejects you is rejecting me; while he who rejects me is rejecting him who sent me as his Messenger."
Though the divine nature was his from the beginning, yet he did not look upon equality with God as above all things to be clung to,
And the 'Lord' is the Spirit, and, where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
