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Virtuous Identity
-Relating to Others-
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 others.
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Song of Songs 8:13 KJV - "Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it."
Psalm 119:63 KJV - "I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts."
Revelation 1:9 KJV - "I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ."
Companions
2 Corinthians 8:23 KJV - "Whether any do enquire of Titus, he is my partner and fellowhelper concerning you: or our brethren be enquired of, they are the messengers of the churches, and the glory of Christ."
Philemon 1:17 KJV - "If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself."
Partner
Matthew 12:48-50 KJV - "48 But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren? 49 And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! 50 For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother." (also Mark 3:32-35)
1 Timothy 5:1 KJV - "Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;"
1 Timothy 5:2 KJV - "The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity."
Mothers
Psalm 113:9 KJV - "He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD."
Isaiah 54:1 KJV - "Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD."
Galatians 4:27 KJV - "For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband."
Sons
Philemon 1:10 KJV - "I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:"
Hebrews 12:5 KJV - "And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:"
1 Corinthians 4:17 KJV - "For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church."
Brother
1 Thessalonians 3:2 KJV - "And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith:"
Brethren
Acts 7:26 KJV - "And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?"