Six Bible Passages About Identity & Self-Worth

Who do you see when you look in the mirror? It’s so easy to get caught up in how the world sees you and compare yourself to others. You get amnesia about your true identity and worth in Christ.

Let these six passages serve as a reminder—God sees you as his redeemed child because he sees you through the lens of Jesus.

Then God said, “Let us make humans in our image, in our likeness. Let them rule the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the domestic animals all over the earth, and all the animals that crawl on the earth.”
So God created humans in his image.
In the image of God he created them.
He created them male and female.
Genesis 1:26-27

Don’t you know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
1 Corinthians 3:16

Whoever is a believer in Christ is a new creation. The old way of living has disappeared. A new way of living has come into existence.
2 Corinthians 5:17

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You are all God’s children by believing in Christ Jesus. Clearly, all of you who were baptized in Christ’s name have clothed yourselves with Christ. There are neither Jews nor Greeks, slaves nor free people, males nor females. You are all the same in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:26-28

But when the right time came, God sent his Son into the world. A woman gave birth to him, and he came under the control of the laws given to Moses. God sent him to pay for the freedom of those who were controlled by these laws so that we would be adopted as his children. Because you are God’s children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into us to call out, “Abba! Father!” So you are no longer slaves but God’s children. Since you are God’s children, God has also made you heirs.
Galatians 4:4-7

That is why you are no longer foreigners and outsiders but citizens together with God’s people and members of God’s family. You are built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets. Christ Jesus himself is the cornerstone. In him all the parts of the building fit together and grow into a holy temple in the Lord. Through him you, also, are being built in the Spirit together with others into a place where God lives.
Ephesians 2:19-22