22 Bible Verses about Divinity

Therefore, Christian Brothers, you who, all alike, have received the Call from Heaven, fix your attention on Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our Religion.

Now, I, Paul, make a personal appeal to you by the meekness and gentleness of the Christ--I who, "in your presence, am humble in my bearing towards you, but, when absent, am bold in my language to you"--

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly-minded, and 'you shall find rest for your souls';

Then Jesus said to his disciples: "If any man wishes to walk in my steps, let him renounce self, and take up his cross, and follow me.

For I have given you an example, so that you may do just as I have done to you.

who has gone into Heaven, and is at God's right hand, where Angels and Archangels and the Powers of Heaven now yield submission to him.

Thou lovest righteousness and hatest iniquity; Therefore God, thy God, has anointed thee with the festal oil more abundantly than thy peers.'

So let the whole nation of Israel know beyond all doubt, that God has made him both Lord and Christ--this very Jesus whom you crucified."

So the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into Heaven, and sat at the right hand of God.

But from this hour 'the Son of Man will be seated on the right hand of God Almighty.'"

They will fight with the Lamb, but the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings; so, too, will those with him who have received the Call and are chosen and faithful.

I tell you, some of those who are standing here will not know death till they have seen the Son of Man coming into his Kingdom."

So that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom, and be seated upon twelve thrones as judges of the twelve tribes of Israel.

Jesus," he went on, "do not forget me when you have come to your Kingdom."

"My kingly power," replied Jesus, "is not due to this world. If it had been so, my servants would be doing their utmost to prevent my being given up to the Jews; but my kingly power is not from the world."

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.')

Father, my desire for all those whom thou has given me is that they may be with me where I am, so that they may see the honor which thou has given me; for thou didst love me before the beginning of the world.

In the Beginning the Word was; and the Word was with God; and the Word was God.

"In truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "before Abraham existed I was."

For through your union with Christ Jesus, the Law of the life- giving Spirit has set you free from the Law of Sin and Death.

It is for freedom that Christ set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not again be held under the yoke of slavery.

Once Jesus was driving out a dumb demon, and, when the demon had gone out, the dumb man spoke. The people were amazed at this;

Yes, and confessedly wonderful are the deep truths of our religion; for-- 'He was revealed in our nature, pronounced righteous in spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, taken up into glory.'

For Christ is the very incarnation of the invisible God-- First-born and Head of all creation;

And to this Simon Peter answered: "You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God."

In the Beginning the Word was; and the Word was with God; and the Word was God. He was in the Beginning with God;

But, as to the spirit of holiness within him, was miraculously designated Son of God by his resurrection from the dead.

But Jesus, as we see, has obtained a ministry as far excelling theirs, as the Covenant of which he is the intermediary, based, as it is, on better promises, excels the former Covenant.

It said-- 'Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven Churches, to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamus, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicaea.'

I, indeed, baptize you with water to teach repentance; but He who is Coming after me is more powerful than I, and I am not fit even to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

He who comes from above is above all others; but a child of earth is earthly, and his teaching is earthly, too. He who comes from Heaven is above all others.

"You yourselves call me 'the Teacher' and 'the Master', and you are right, for I am both.

There is but one Lord, one Faith, one Baptism.

God will not fail you, and it is he who called you into communion with his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

So let the whole nation of Israel know beyond all doubt, that God has made him both Lord and Christ--this very Jesus whom you crucified."

It is this Jesus whom God has exalted to his right hand, to be a Guide and a Savior, to give Israel repentance and forgiveness of sins.

Then Jesus added: "The Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath."

On which Jesus said: "I shall be with you but a little longer, and then I am going to him who sent me.

You heard me say that I was going away and would return to you. Had you loved me, you would have been glad that I was going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.

I did not tell you all this at first, because I was with you. But now I am to return to him who sent me; and yet not one of you asks me--'Where are you going?'

Now I am to be in this world no longer, but they are still to be in the world, and I am to come to thee. Holy Father, keep them by that revelation of thy Name which thou has given me, that they may be one, as we are.

My children, I am to be with you but a little while longer. You will look for me; and what I said to the Jews--'You cannot come where I am going'--I now say to you.

For God has rescued us from the tyranny of Darkness, and has removed us into the Kingdom of his Son, who is the embodiment of his love,

'Behold! the Servant of my Choice, My Beloved, in whom my heart delights! I will breathe my spirit upon him, And he shall announce a time of judgment to the Gentiles.

While he was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and there was a voice from the cloud that said-- "This is my Son, the Beloved, in whom I delight; him you must hear."

And from the heavens came a voice--"Thou art my Son, the Beloved; in thee I delight."

And so to enhance that glorious manifestation of his loving- kindness which he gave us in The Beloved;

But from this hour 'the Son of Man will be seated on the right hand of God Almighty.'" "Are you, then, the Son of God?" they all asked. "It is true," answered Jesus, "I am."

The Father and I are one."

If I am not doing the work that my Father is doing, do not believe me; If I am doing it, even though you do not believe me, believe what that work shows; so that you may understand, and understand more and more clearly, that the Father is in union with me, and I with the Father."

And he who sees me sees him who sent me.

If you had recognized me, you would have known my Father also; for the future you will recognize him, indeed you have already seen him." "Master, show us the Father," said Philip, "and we shall be satisfied." "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'? read more.
Do not you believe that I am in union with the Father, and the Father with me? In giving you my teaching I am not speaking on my own authority; but the Father himself, always in union with me, does his own work.

While he was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and there was a voice from the cloud that said-- "This is my Son, the Beloved, in whom I delight; him you must hear."

And from the heavens there came a voice which said: "This is my son, the Beloved, in whom I delight."

It is another who bears testimony to me, and I know that the testimony which he bears to me is trustworthy.

The Father who has sent me has himself borne testimony to me. You have neither listened to his voice, not seen his form;

I, who bear testimony to myself, am one, and the Father who sent me also bears testimony to me."

and from Jesus Christ, ' the faithful Witness, the First-born from the dead, and the Ruler of all the Kings of the earth.' To him who loves us and freed us from our sins by his own blood--

They will fight with the Lamb, but the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings; so, too, will those with him who have received the Call and are chosen and faithful.

This will be brought about in his own time by the one ever-blessed Potentate, the King of all kings and Lord of all lords,

and on his robe and on his thigh he has this name written-- 'KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.'

Suddenly they shrieked out: "What do you want with us, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before our 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!"

The foul spirits, too, whenever they caught sight of him, flung themselves down before him, and screamed out: "You are the Son of God"!

And even demons came out from many people, screaming 'You are the Son of God.' Jesus rebuked them, and would not allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.

But the wicked spirit answered them: "Jesus I acknowledge, and Paul I know, but you--who are you?"

For he taught them like one who had authority, and not like their Teachers of the Law.

Then Jesus came up, and spoke to them thus: "All authority in heaven and on the earth has been given to me.

And they were all so amazed that they kept asking: "What is this? Strange teaching indeed! He gives his commands with authority even to the foul spirits, and they obey him!"

And, because he is Son of Man, he has also given him authority to act as judge.

And they were all so amazed that they kept asking: "What is this? Strange teaching indeed! He gives his commands with authority even to the foul spirits, and they obey him!"

The men were amazed, and exclaimed: "What kind of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!"

The Father loves his Son, and has put everything in his hands.

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.

Are you greater than our ancestor Abraham, who died? And the Prophets died too. Whom do you make yourself out to be?"

"It is not for any good action that we would stone you," answered the Jews, "but for blasphemy; and because you, who are only a man, make yourself out to be God."

And the Tempter came to him, and said: "If you are God's Son, tell these stones to become loaves of bread."

"If you are God's Son, throw yourself down, for Scripture says- -'He will give his angels commands about thee, And on their hands they will upbear thee, Lest ever thou shouldst strike thy foot against a stone.'"

The passers-by railed at him, shaking their heads as they said: "You who 'destroy the Temple and build one in three days,' save yourself! If you are God's Son, come down from the cross!"

And God placed 'all things under Christ's feet,' and gave him to the Church as its supreme Head;

And to this Simon Peter answered: "You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God."

The soldiers, too, came up in mockery, bringing him common wine, And saying as they did so: "If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself."

In the same way the Chief Priests, with the Teachers of the Law, said to one another in mockery: "He saved others, but he cannot save himself! Let the Christ, the 'King of Israel,' come down from the cross now, that we may see it and believe." Even the men who had been crucified with Jesus reviled him.

who has gone into Heaven, and is at God's right hand, where Angels and Archangels and the Powers of Heaven now yield submission to him.

On one of these days, when Jesus was teaching the people in the Temple Courts and telling the Good News, the Chief Priests and the Teachers of the Law, joined by the Councillors, confronted him, And addressing him, said: "Tell us what authority you have to do these things. Who is it that has given you this authority?"

But, when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father--the Spirit of Truth, who comes from the Father--he will bear testimony to me;

Yes, and you also are to bear testimony, because you have been with me from the first.

"Yes Master," she answered; "I have learned to believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, 'who was to come' into the world."

And Thomas exclaimed: "My Master, and my God!"

The Roman Officer, who was standing facing Jesus, on seeing the way in which he expired, exclaimed: "This man must indeed have been 'God's Son'!"

One of the criminals who were hanging beside Jesus railed at him. "Are not you the Christ? Save yourself and us," he said.

Meanwhile the people stood looking on. Even the leading men said with a sneer: "He saved others, let him save himself, if he is God's Christ, his Chosen One."

"Even if I bear testimony to myself," answered Jesus, "my testimony is trustworthy; for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you do not know where I come from, nor where I am going.

But the testimony which I have is of greater weight than John's; for the work that the Father has given me to carry out-- the work that I am doing--is in itself proof that the Father has sent me as his Messenger.

You search the Scriptures, because you think that you find in them Immortal Life;

This I have seen myself, and I have declared my belief that he is the Son of God."

The Father who has sent me has himself borne testimony to me. You have neither listened to his voice, not seen his form;

And they said to the woman: "It is no longer because of what you say that we believe in him, for we have heard him ourselves and know that he really is the Savior of the world."

"Rabbi," Nathanael exclaimed, "you are the Son of God, you are King of Israel!"

The Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees began debating about this. "Who is this man who speaks so blasphemously?" they asked. "Who can forgive sins except God?"

Shrieking out in a loud voice: "What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? For God's sake do not torment me!"