What does the Bible say about believers?
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The Bible teaches that believers are those whom God saves by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, forgives, and makes new for His glory. John 3:16 proclaims that whoever believes in the Son receives eternal life, while Romans 6:23 contrasts sin's deserved death with God's free gift of life in Christ. Through Christ's atoning sacrifice, God displays His love for sinners, as Romans 5:8 and 1 John 2:2 affirm. Believers confess their sins and rest in God's faithful forgiveness (1 John 1:9), becoming new creations in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17). Though they endure opposition and persevere in faith, they await the full revelation of their identity as God's children (Matthew 10:22; 1 John 3:2).
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- 2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
- John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
- Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- 1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
- Matthew 10:22
You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.
- John 1:14
The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
- Psalms 139:13-16
[13] For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb. [14] I will give thanks to you, For I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well. [15] My frame wasn't hidden from you, When I was made in secret, Woven together in the depths of the earth. [16] Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there were none of them.
- 1 John 3:2
Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.
- Romans 5:8
But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
- 1 John 2:2
And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
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