ADOPTED
Galatians 4:6-7 NIV – Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.” So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.
1 John 3:1 NIV – See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
Romans 8:15 NIV – The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”
ALIVE IN CHRIST
Romans 6:11 NIV – In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
1 Corinthians 15:22 NIV – For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.
ANOINTED
2 Corinthians 1:21-22 NIV – Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.
APPROVED
1 Thessalonians 2:3-4 NIV – For the appeal we make does not spring from error or impure motives, nor are we trying to trick you. On the contrary, we speak as those approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel. We are not trying to please people but God, who tests our hearts.
BLESSED
Ephesians 1:3 NIV – Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.
2 Corinthians 9:8-10 NIV – And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. As it is written: “They have freely scattered their gifts to the poor; their righteousness endures forever.” Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.
BOLD
2 Corinthians 3:12 NIV – Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold.
CALLED
Romans 8:28 NIV – And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
CHILDREN OF GOD
John 1:12-13 NIV – Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.
Romans 8:14 NIV – For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.
Romans 8:16 NIV – The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.
CHOSEN
1 Thessalonians 1:4-5 NIV – For we know, brothers and sisters loved by God, that he has chosen you, because our gospel came to you not simply with words but also with power, with the Holy Spirit and deep conviction. You know how we lived among you for your sake.
2 Corinthians 1: 3-4 NIV – Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.
John 5:20-21 NIV – For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, and he will show him even greater works than these, so that you will be amazed. For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it.
COMFORTED
2 Corinthians 1:3-4 NIV – Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.
CONNECTED AS ONE
Romans 12:4-5 NIV – For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.
COVERED BY GRACE
1 Corinthians 1:4 NIV – I always thank my God for you because of his grace given you in Christ Jesus.
DELIVERED
2 Corinthians 1:10 NIV – He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us again. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us,
ENCOURAGERS
1 Thessalonians 2:11 NIV – For you know that we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children, encouraging, comforting and urging you to live lives worthy of God, who calls you into his kingdom and glory.
FORGIVEN
2 Corinthians 2:10-11 NIV – Anyone you forgive, I also forgive. And what I have forgiven—if there was anything to forgive—I have forgiven in the sight of Christ for your sake, in order that Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.
FREE
Colossians 1:22 NIV – But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation
Romans 8:1-2 NIV – Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.
2 Corinthians 3:17 NIV – Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
HARD WORKERS
1 Thessalonians 2:9 NIV – Surely you remember, brothers and sisters, our toil and hardship; we worked night and day in order not to be a burden to anyone while we preached the gospel of God to you.
HEIRS
Deuteronomy 28:1 NIV – If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth.
Galatians 4:7 NIV – So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.
Romans 8:17 NIV – Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
HOPED-FOR
Romans 8:19-21 NIV – For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
HUMBLE
Matthew 7:1-2 (NIV) – “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
IMITATORS OF THE LORD
1 Thessalonians 1:6 NIV – You became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you welcomed the message in the midst of severe suffering with the joy given by the Holy Spirit.
JUSTIFIED
Romans 8:30 NIV – And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
Romans 8:33 NIV – Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.
LOVED
John 3:16-17 NIV – For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
1 John 4:10-12 NIV – This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
Zephaniah 3:17 NIV – “The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.”
LIVING MANUSCRIPT
2 Corinthians 3:2-3 NIV – You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone. You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
MINISTERS
2 Corinthians 3:6 NIV – He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
NURTURERS
1 Thessalonians 2:7b-8 NIV – Just as a nursing mother cares for her children, so we cared for you. Because we loved you so much, we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well.
OVERCOMERS
Romans 8:35,37 NIV – Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
PEACEFUL
Romans 8:6 NIV – The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.
PLEASING TO GOD
2 Corinthians 2:15 NIV – For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.
PREDESTINED
Romans 8:29 NIV – For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.
PROSPEROUS
Jeremiah 29:11 NIV – For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
REDEEMED
1 Corinthians 1:30 NIV – It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption.
RIGHTEOUS
Romans 3:22-24 NIV – This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
SANCTIFIED
1 Corinthians 1:2-3 NIV – To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be his holy people, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ—their Lord and ours: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
SPIRITUAL
Ephesians 6:12 (NIV) – For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
TRANSFORMING
2 Corinthians 3:18 NIV – And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.