Here are Scripture verses to help you see who you are in Christ.

To help you focus on God rather than self. To

help you believe the truth of who God says you are rather than what the culture is screaming at you.These verses
are also for those who struggle with body image, self-worth struggles, food anxiety, and eating disorders.

Focus, meditate, and read through these scriptures. If you have time and want to further study these verses I highly
encourage you to please read these within their context in the Bible.

Challenge: Choose one scripture to memorize and meditate on for a week. Delete social media and all the times you
are tempted to go on social media - look at your verse instead!

Genesis 2:7

[7] then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and
the man became a living creature. (ESV)

Genesis 1:27

[27] So God created man in his own image,

in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them. (ESV)

Psalm 8:3–5

[3] When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,

the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
[4] what is man that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man that you care for him?
[5] Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings
and crowned him with glory and honor. (ESV)

Psalm 139:13–14

[13] For you formed my inward parts;

you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
[14] I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well. (ESV)

Psalm 139 (The Message)

1-6 God, investigate my life;

get all the facts firsthand.

I’m an open book to you;

even from a distance, you know what I’m thinking.

You know when I leave and when I get back;

I’m never out of your sight.

You know everything I’m going to say

before I start the first sentence.

I look behind me and you’re there,

then up ahead and you’re there, too—

your reassuring presence, coming and going.

This is too much, too wonderful—

I can’t take it all in!

7-12

Is there anyplace I can go to avoid your Spirit?

to be out of your sight?

If I climb to the sky, you’re there!

If I go underground, you’re there!

If I flew on morning’s wings

to the far western horizon,

You’d find me in a minute—

you’re already there waiting!

Then I said to myself, “Oh, he even sees me in the dark!

At night I’m immersed in the light!”

It’s a fact: darkness isn’t dark to you;

night and day, darkness and light, they’re all the same to you.

13-16

Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out;

you formed me in my mother’s womb.

I thank you, High God—you’re breathtaking!

Body and soul, I am marvelously made!

I worship in adoration—what a creation!

You know me inside and out,

 you know every bone in my body;

You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit,

how I was sculpted from nothing into something.

Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth;

all the stages of my life were spread out before you,

The days of my life all prepared

before I’d even lived one day.

17-22

Your thoughts—how rare, how beautiful!

God, I’ll never comprehend them!

I couldn’t even begin to count them—

any more than I could count the sand of the sea.

Oh, let me rise in the morning and live always with you!

And please, God, do away with wickedness for good!

And you murderers—out of here!—

all the men and women who belittle you, God,

infatuated with cheap god-imitations.

See how I hate those who hate you, God,

see how I loathe all this godless arrogance;

I hate it with pure, unadulterated hatred.

Your enemies are my enemies!

23-24

Investigate my life, O God,

find out everything about me;

Cross-examine and test me,

get a clear picture of what I’m about;

See for yourself whether I’ve done anything wrong—

then guide me on the road to eternal life.

God as the Potter and we as the Clay:
God formed us. These potter and clay verses (below) are not specifically about body image. The context of these is
about God with his chosen people Israel. BUT what we can learn in these passages is that God is in charge. He is
the potter and we are the clay. We are to submit to Him and how He has chosen to form us and sculpt us. God’s ways
are not our ways - even when we don’t understand we must trust that He is good - even with the way He created our
bodies. Who are we to question the way our Potter has molded, shaped, sculpted, and formed us?

Isaiah 64:8

[8] But now, O LORD, you are our Father;

we are the clay, and you are our potter;
we are all the work of your hand. (ESV)

Jeremiah 18:1–6

[1] The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: [2] “Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will let
you hear my words.” [3] So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was working at his wheel. [4] And the
vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed
good to the potter to do.

[5] Then the word of the LORD came to me: [6] “O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done?
declares the LORD. Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel. (ESV)

Isaiah 29:16

[16] You turn things upside down!

Shall the potter be regarded as the clay,
that the thing made should say of its maker,
“He did not make me”;
or the thing formed say of him who formed it,
“He has no understanding”? (ESV)

1 Samuel 16:7

[7] But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have
rejected him. For the LORD sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on
the heart.” (ESV)

Proverbs 31:30

[30] Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain,

but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised. (ESV)

[30] Charm is deceptive, and beauty does not last;

but a woman who fears the LORD will be greatly praised. (NLT)

Matthew 16:24–27

[24] Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and
follow me. [25] For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. [26] For
what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his
soul? [27] For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each
person according to what he has done. (ESV)

Matthew 6:25–33

[25] “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your
body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? [26] Look at the birds of the
air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more
value than they? [27] And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? [28] And why are
you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, [29] yet I tell you,
even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. [30] But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which
today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? [31]
Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ [32] For
the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. [33] But seek first
the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. (ESV)

Matthew 11:28–30

[28] Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. [29] Take my yoke upon you, and learn
from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. [30] For my yoke is easy, and my
burden is light.” (ESV)

Romans 12:1–2

[1] I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and
acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. [2] Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the
renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and
perfect. (ESV)

Romans 6:16–18

[16] Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom
you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? [17] But thanks be to
God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which
you were committed, [18] and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. (ESV)

Romans 8:1–11

[1] There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. [2] For the law of the Spirit of life has
set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. [3] For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh,
could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, [4] in
order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but
according to the Spirit. [5] For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but
those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. [6] For to set the mind on the flesh is
death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. [7] For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it
does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot. [8] Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

[9] You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not
have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. [10] But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin,
the Spirit is life because of righteousness. [11] If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he
who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
(ESV)
1 Corinthians 6:19–20

[19] 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, [20] for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. (ESV)

Philippians 3:8–9

[8] Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake
I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ [9] and be found in
him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the
righteousness from God that depends on faith— (ESV)

2 Corinthians 12:9

[9] But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will
boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. (ESV)

Philippians 4:8

[8] Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely,
whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
(ESV)

Galatians 2:20

[20] I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the
flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. (ESV)

Ephesians 2:10

[10] For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we
should walk in them. (ESV)