13 Bible Verses about Equality With God
Most Relevant Verses
On this account then the Jews were all the more eager to put Him to death--because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also spoke of God as being in a special sense His Father, thus putting Himself on a level with God.
"Where is your Father?" they asked. "You know my Father as little as you know me." He replied; "if you knew me, you would know my Father also."
But Jesus cried aloud, "He who believes in me, believes not so much in me, as in Him who sent me;
"Have I been so long among you," Jesus answered, "and yet you, Philip, do not know me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How can *you* ask me, 'Cause us to see the Father'?
If I had not done among them, as I have, such miracles as no one else ever did, they would have had no sin; but they have in fact seen and also hated both me and my Father.
He who hates me hates my Father also.
"Whoever for my sake receives one such young child as this, receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not so much me as Him who sent me."
In most solemn truth I tell you that he who receives whoever I send receives me, and that he who receives me receives Him who sent me."
"He who listens to you listens to me; and he who disregards you disregards me, and he who disregards me disregards Him who sent me."
Although from the beginning He had the nature of God He did not reckon His equality with God a treasure to be tightly grasped.
Now by "the Lord" is meant the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, freedom is enjoyed.
