What Does the Bible Say About Becoming?

Ephesians 4:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes

So that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 7 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Acts 5:1-42 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property, and with his wife's knowledge he kept back for himself some of the proceeds and brought only a part of it and laid it at the apostles' feet. But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land? While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to man but to God.” When Ananias heard these words, he fell down and breathed his last. And great fear came upon all who heard of it. ...

Luke 13:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Romans 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

John 3:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

Romans 5:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—

Acts 2:42 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.

John 15:1-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ...

John 8:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.”

Matthew 5:27-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

Genesis 1:26-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Leviticus 18:22 ESV / 1 helpful vote

You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.

22 Bible Verses about Becoming

Ephesians 4:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 7 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Romans 5:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Acts 5:1-42 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Luke 13:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 3:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 5:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 2:42 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 15:1-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 8:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:27-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:26-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Leviticus 18:22 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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22 Bible Verses about Becoming

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John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Matthew 5:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Ephesians 4:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 7 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Romans 5:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Acts 5:1-42 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Luke 13:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 3:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 5:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 2:42 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 15:1-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 8:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:27-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:26-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Leviticus 18:22 ESV / 1 helpful vote