Bible Verses about โwhat is a christianโ
The Bible contains 39 verses about what is a christian across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โFor 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.โ
โJesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.โ
โPeter said to them, "Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.โ
โfor all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;โ
โFor we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.โ
โthat if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.โ
โJesus answered, "Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can't enter into the Kingdom of God!โ
โHe who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.โ
โFor my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.โ
โBecause Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;โ
โThis is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you--not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,โ
โThis is the bread which came down out of heaven--not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever."โ
โAs the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.โ
โJesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves.โ
โThis is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die.โ
โHe who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.โ
โwho before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.โ
โin which he also went and preached to the spirits in prison,โ
โIt is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.โ
โHe said these things in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.โ
โwho is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.โ
โJesus answered them, "Didn't I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?"โ
โFor the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself."โ
โI am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."โ
โNow he spoke of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for it was he who would betray him, being one of the twelve.โ
โJesus said therefore to the twelve, "You don't also want to go away, do you?"โ
โSimon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.โ
โWe have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God."โ
โbut to those who are self-seeking, and don't obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation,โ
โBut there are some of you who don't believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who didn't believe, and who it was who would betray him.โ
โHe said, "For this cause have I said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father."โ
โTherefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?"โ
โBut Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, "Does this cause you to stumble?โ
โThen what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?โ
โAt this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.โ
โThe Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"โ
โto those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;โ
โwho "will pay back to everyone according to their works:"โ
โin the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.โ
