59 Bible Verses about Names And Titles For The Christian

Yet the people continued to hold them in high honor, and more and more believers in the Lord were joining them, both men and women.

Let no one despise you on account of your youth, but become an example for the faithful in word, in life, in love, in faith, in purity.

To all that are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints. May God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ, bless you, and give you peace.

So, my brothers beloved, stand firm, immovable, always abounding in work for the Lord, because you know that your toil is not fruitless in the Lord.

Listen, my dear brothers, has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith, and to inherit the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him?

"Then he, the King will say to those on his right hand. "'Come, my Father's blessed ones, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

"But you are not to be called 'Rabbi'; for one is your Teacher, and you are all brothers;

He motioned to them to keep quiet, and told them how the Lord had brought him out of prison. "Tell all this to James," he said, "and to the brothers," and away he went to another place.

"My mother and brothers," he answered, "are those who listen to the word of God and obey it."

"Do not cling to me," said Jesus, "for I am not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, "'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

among whom you also are called to be Jesus Christ's.

and not in behalf of the nation alone, but in order that he might gather into one the widely scattered children of God.

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil; for every one who does not work righteousness is not a child of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.

And in that very spot where it was told them, "You are not my people," There they shall be called "Sons of the living God."

"So you will become sons of your heavenly Father; for he makes his sun to rise upon sinners as well as saints, and sends rain upon the unjust and the just.

"But you must love even your enemies and be kind to them, And lend, despairing of no man. Then your reward will be great, And you will be the sons of the Most High; For he is kind even to the ungrateful and to the evil.

Notice then that the true sons of Abraham are children of faith.

That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as his posterity.

But you, brothers, are like Isaac, children of the promise;

So, brothers, we are the children of no slave woman, but of free woman. For freedom did not Christ set us free;

"the field is the world; the good seed is the sons of the kingdom; the weeds, the sons of the Evil One.

"Can the friends fast at a wedding-feast," said Jesus, "so long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom has been taken from them, and then they will fast.

"And the master praised the unjust steward because he had acted shrewdly; for the sons of this world are in relation to their own generation wiser than the sons of the light.

For you were once darkness, but are now in the Lord.

For you are all sons of light, and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness.

"For indeed they cannot die any more; they are equal to the angels, and through being sons of the resurrection are sons of God.

But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people, that you may show forth the virtues of Him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light??10 you who once were not a people, but now are the people of God; who were once without mercy, but now you have found mercy.

"Go," answered the Lord, "this man is chosen instrument of mine to bear my name before the nations and their kings, and before the Children of Israel also;

and when he had found him he brought him to Antioch, where for a whole year they were guests of the church, and taught many people. And it was in Antioch that the disciples first received the name of "Christians."

Agrippa answered, "In short, you are doing your best to persuade me to become a Christian."

Learn then to imitate God as his beloved children,

So Jesus spoke to the Jews that believed him, saying. "If you abide in my teaching, you are my true disciples;

"By this is my Father glorified, by your bearing abundant fruit, and so being my disciples.

Therefore, as God's chosen people, consecrated and beloved, clothe yourselves with tenderness of heart, kindness, humility, gentleness, good temper;

To Titus, my true son in a common faith, from Paul, a slave of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and to the knowledge of the truth which goes with piety;

Since all can see that you are a letter of Christ transcribed by men, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on human hearts as tablets.

to the holy and believing brothers in Christ who are in Colosse. Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father.

Take notice then that no longer are you strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God's household.

namely, that in Christ Jesus the Gentiles form one body with us the Jews, and are coheirs and copartners in the promise, through the gospel.

And there was given to each one of them a white robe; and they were told that they should rest for yet a little time, until the number should be completed by their fellow slaves and their brethren who were about to be put to death as they had been.

And the Scripture was fulfilled which said, And Abraham believed God, and this was imputed to him as righteousness, and he was called God's friend.

"I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have learned from my Father.

then be sure that the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the wicked (who are even now enduring punishment) for the "Day of Judgment";

and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ; but to share his glory, we must now be sharing his sufferings.

So each one of you is no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir, too, through God's grace.

In the same way you husbands live with your wives, according to knowledge, honoring your wife as of the weaker sex, yet as an heir with yourself of the grace of life; so that your prayers may not be hindered.

And if you belong to Christ, then you are the descendants of Abraham, heirs according to the promise.

On which principle God, wishing to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his purpose, mediated with an oath;

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth for service in behalf of those who are about to inherit salvation?

I adjure you, in the name of the Lord, to have this letter read to all the brothers.

Therefore, holy brothers, comrades of a heavenly calling, fix your thoughts then upon Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession.

And yourselves like living stones be built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood offering spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God, through Christ Jesus.

and has made us to be a kingdom of priests unto his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever, Amen.

When they were through breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these others do?" "Yes, Lord, you know that you are dear to me." he answered. Jesus said to him, "Feed my lambs."

"You are the light of the world. A city built on a hilltop cannot be hid;

"My little children, I am only to be with you a little longer. You will seek me; just as I said to the Jews, 'Where I go you cannot come,' so now I say to you.

My children, I am writing this to you that you may not continue to sin; but if any one sin, we ever have a Comforter before the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous.

You know, do you not, that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid!

for we are members of his body.