Here are some passages that define what being a believer is all about. It explains better than I can what it means to know God. And a little of what it means not to.
Rom 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ,[fn1] for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.
Rom 1:17
For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, "The just shall live by faith."[fn2]
Rom 1:18
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
Isa 43:10 "You [are] My witnesses," says the LORD, "And My servant whom I have chosen, That you may know and believe Me, And understand that I [am] He. Before Me there was no God formed, Nor shall there be after Me.
Rom 4:24 but also for us. It shall be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead,
Rom 6:8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
Rom 10:9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
1Pe 1:14
as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance;
1Pe 1:15
but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,
1Pe 1:16
because it is written, "Be holy, for I am holy."[fn3]
1Pe 1:17
And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one's work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear;
1Pe 1:18
knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers,
1Pe 1:19
but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.
1Pe 1:20
He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you
1Pe 1:21
who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
1Pe 1:22
Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit[fn4] in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart,
1Pe 1:23
having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever,[fn5]
1Pe 1:24
because
"All flesh is as grass,
And all the glory of man[fn6] as the flower of the grass.
The grass withers,
And its flower falls away,
1Pe 1:25
But the word of the LORD endures forever."[fn7]
Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you.
Let this passage be a stern warning of what awaits the rebellious soul who embrace the flesh and what this World offers, which is death, plain and simple.
2Pe 2:9
then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment,
2Pe 2:10
and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority. They are presumptuous, self-willed. They are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries,
2Pe 2:11
whereas angels, who are greater in power and might, do not bring a reviling accusation against them before the Lord.
2Pe 2:12
But these, like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed, speak evil of the things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption,
2Pe 2:13
and will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, carousing in their own deceptions while they feast with you,
2Pe 2:14
having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. They have a heart trained in covetous practices, and are accursed children.
2Pe 2:15
They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
2Pe 2:16
but he was rebuked for his iniquity: a dumb donkey speaking with a man's voice restrained the madness of the prophet.
2Pe 2:17
These are wells without water, clouRAB[fn2] carried by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.[fn3]
2Pe 2:18
For when they speak great swelling worRAB of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped[fn4] from those who live in error.
2Pe 2:19
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.
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