Scriptures to Help You See Who You Really Are: a blog about knowing your identity in Christ, who you are in Christ, and who God says you are.
We spend all of our time trying to figure out who we are, but perhaps it is the wrong question. If the people in your life are not kind and loving, who are they? If you come home and no one is there, who are you? What do you do when you do not know where home is? The Bible says that God knows everything about us. You know this when you familiarize yourself with the Bible verses about who you are and whose you are. If He knows everything about us, then what is left for us to seek out or figure out on our own?
Know yourself, know your worth and be true to it. God made us each special, with a purpose and a path to follow. True peace comes by knowing who you are and accepting that truth, no matter how hard it may be. The Bible has many verses about knowing who you are in Christ Jesus and how important it is to fully understand that.
Bible Verses About Knowing Who You Are
The Bible is full of verses describing who we are and what we can become. Here are some of our favorite verses that encourage us to know ourselves better and claim the power inside us.
God wants you to be truly you. He doesn’t want you to live a life based on lies and fears. He wants you to embrace who you are and celebrate your unique personality, strengths, and talents as His daughter. These Bible verses will help you believe that God thinks you’re wonderful just as you are, and help will follow in abundance!
As you’re walking through life, you may feel like your identity is in question. If this is something you’re struggling with, we hope that these Bible verses about knowing who you are will help to answer your questions.
As we navigate through life, it is important to have a clear understanding of who we are in order to find purpose and fulfillment. The Bible offers guidance and wisdom on this subject, providing us with verses that remind us of our identity and worth. Here is a list of Bible verses that speak to the importance of knowing who you are:
1. Ephesians 2:10 (NIV)
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
2. Psalm 139:14 (NIV)
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
3. 1 Peter 2:9 (NIV)
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
4. Jeremiah 1:5 (NIV)
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
5. Romans 8:37 (NIV)
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
These verses remind us that we are loved, valued, and chosen by God. They encourage us to embrace our true identity in Christ and to live out our purpose with confidence and courage. By meditating on these verses and allowing their truths to sink into our hearts, we can find strength and clarity in knowing who we are.
Bible Verses About Knowing Yourself
“I know who I am.” – Paul
“O Lord, you have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.” Psalm 139:1-4
“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its flavor, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.”—Matthew 5:13
“For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” —Ephesians 2:10
- “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”—1 Corinthians 13:13 (NIV)
- “If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.”—Romans 14:8 (NIV)
- “I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.”—Romans 1:16
1 Peter 3:15
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;
Bible Verses On Identity And Purpose
John 14:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 1:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes
He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.
Matthew 22:39 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Daniel 11:32 ESV / 4 helpful votes
He shall seduce with flattery those who violate the covenant, but the people who know their God shall stand firm and take action.
Lamentations 3:1-66 ESV / 4 helpful votes
I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of his wrath; he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light; surely against me he turns his hand again and again the whole day long. He has made my flesh and my skin waste away; he has broken my bones; he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation; …
Proverbs 27:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
Psalm 119:105 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Psalm 86:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
A Prayer of David. Incline your ear, O Lord, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.
Psalm 25:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.
1 John 4:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
James 4:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Ephesians 6:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.
Ephesians 5:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,
Ephesians 2:4-5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—
Galatians 5:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
Matthew 9:36-38 ESV / 3 helpful votes
When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”
Jeremiah 9:23-24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the Lord.”
Psalm 8:4-8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
What is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
1 John 4:6-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error. Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
1 John 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him.
1 Timothy 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers.
Ephesians 6:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.
Galatians 1:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Bible Verses On Identity In Christ
Romans 7:15-24 ESV / 133 helpful votes
For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. …
1 Peter 4:10-11 ESV / 63 helpful votes
As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace: whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
James 1:5 ESV / 52 helpful votes
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
Psalm 1:1-3 ESV / 51 helpful votes
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.
Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 49 helpful votes
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
Lamentations 3:40 ESV / 47 helpful votes
Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the Lord!
Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 41 helpful votes
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
Philippians 2:3 ESV / 38 helpful votes
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Romans 12:3 ESV / 33 helpful votes
For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
Proverbs 9:10 ESV / 30 helpful votes
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.
John 1:12-13 ESV / 28 helpful votes
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
2 Corinthians 13:5 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!
Luke 18:9-14 ESV / 23 helpful votes
He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ …
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 22 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Luke 14:26-27 ESV / 22 helpful votes
“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.
Hebrews 12:1 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
Proverbs 18:2 ESV / 21 helpful votes
A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.
Romans 12:2 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Genesis 1:26-27 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
1 John 4:19 ESV / 15 helpful votes
We love because he first loved us.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 15 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
2 Timothy 1:5-7 ESV / 15 helpful votes
I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well. For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands, for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Luke 14:33 ESV / 14 helpful votes
So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
Luke 1:37 ESV / 14 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
James 1:12 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
Galatians 6:4 ESV / 13 helpful votes
But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.
John 17:3 ESV / 13 helpful votes
And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
John 3:16 ESV / 13 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Luke 24:32 ESV / 12 helpful votes
They said to each other, “Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the Scriptures?”
Luke 13:33-34 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Nevertheless, I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the day following, for it cannot be that a prophet should perish away from Jerusalem.’ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!
Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Ephesians 2:14 ESV / 11 helpful votes
For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility
Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.
1 John 3:3 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
Proverbs 29:23 ESV / 10 helpful votes
One’s pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.
Matthew 9:38 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”
Philippians 1:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 5:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes
For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light
Galatians 6:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes
For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
John 13:34 ESV / 8 helpful votes
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
Mark 10:29-30 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.
I Know Who I Am And Whose I Am Scripture
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 8 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. …
Exodus 2:1-25 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Now a man from the house of Levi went and took as his wife a Levite woman. The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank. And his sister stood at a distance to know what would be done to him. Now the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her young women walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her servant woman, and she took it. …
Ephesians 4:22-24 ESV / 7 helpful votes
To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
John 4:24 ESV / 7 helpful votes
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
John 3:16-17 ESV / 7 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 7 helpful votes
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Proverbs 3:26 ESV / 7 helpful votes
For the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught.
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 6 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood …
1 John 5:20 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
2 Peter 3:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
Philippians 3:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes
That I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,
Galatians 6:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.
Galatians 6:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
John 8:31-32 ESV / 6 helpful votes
So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Joshua 1:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Corinthians 2:3-5 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
Acts 1:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Psalm 139:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
Job 13:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes
How many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin.
Joshua 1:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
1 Peter 5:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you,
James 5:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
Hebrews 13:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.
Hebrews 13:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?”
Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Ephesians 1:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,
Galatians 6:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
1 Corinthians 12:4-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone.
