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Virtuous Identity
-Relating to Christ-
God uses scripture to teach his people how they must identify in the faith.
This list of virtues directs the believer's heart and mind toward adopting
the identities relevant to their relationship with Christ.
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Psalm 79:13 KJV - "So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations."
Psalm 95:7 KJV - "For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,"
Psalm 100:3 KJV - "Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture."
Matthew 10:16 KJV - "Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves."
Sheep
1 Thessalonians 1:6 KJV - "And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:"
Followers
Luke 12:4 KJV - "And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do."
John 15:13-15 KJV - "13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. 14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. 15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you."
Friends
Ephesians 3:1 KJV - "For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,"
Philemon 1:1, 9 KJV - "1 Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellowlabourer, ... 9 Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ."
Prisoner - of Jesus Christ
Romans 16:7 KJV - "Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellowprisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me."
Colossians 4:10 KJV - "Aristarchus my fellowprisoner saluteth you, and Marcus, sister's son to Barnabas, (touching whom ye received commandments: if he come unto you, receive him;)"
Philemon 1:23 KJV - "There salute thee Epaphras, my fellowprisoner in Christ Jesus;"
Fellowprisoners - of Jesus Christ
1 Corinthians 10:21 KJV - "Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils."
2 Corinthians 1:7 KJV - "And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation."
Hebrews 3:14 KJV - "For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;"
1 Peter 4:13 KJV - "But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy."
Partakers
Acts 22:20 KJV - "And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him."
Revelation 2:13 KJV - "I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth."
Revelation 17:6 KJV - "And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration."
Strong’s Greek 3144: a witness (literally [judicially] or figuratively [generically]); by analogy a “martyr”
Martyrs
Acts 11:26 KJV - "And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch."
1 Peter 4:16 KJV - "Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf."
Christians
Isaiah 8:16 KJV - "Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples."
John 8:31 KJV - "Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;"
Disciples
Jeremiah 3:14 KJV - "Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:"
Romans 7:4 KJV - "Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God."
Revelation 21:9 KJV - "And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife."