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Bible Verses About The Nature Of God

Early Christian writers usually described God as one, eternal, uncreated, spiritual, and beyond bodily form. Writers like Aristides, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Athenagoras, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Novatian, and the Apostolic Constitutions repeatedly tied God’s nature to words like essence, immutability, invisibility, and incomprehensibility.

They also used Bible passages such as John 4:24, Hebrews 1:3, Romans 1:20, Acts 17:29, and 1 Corinthians 8:6 to explain that God is not made of matter and is not like idols or human art. The evidence is broad and strong for God’s unity, spiritual nature, and eternal being, though some writers use philosophical terms differently and a few cards are only indirect or about related topics like the Trinity or Christ’s divinity.

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35 references

Foundation Texts

But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

Major passage for one God, the Father, and one Lord Jesus Christ

Supporting Passages

Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.

Supports God's greatness as beyond understanding

Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.

Bible text about God's power and justice

Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.

Old Testament text on God's unsearchable understanding

Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.

Supports the idea of God's greatness as unsearchable

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.

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And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,

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Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.

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For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

Strong passage for fullness of Godhead, but used cautiously

Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.

Bible passage used to rule out idols and bodily images

O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.

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The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

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Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.

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Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

Direct passage used for divine nature language

For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

Shows God’s divine nature is seen through creation but not fully grasped

He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.

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For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

Triadic passage in the supplied Bible set

Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:

Direct passage that Christ is the exact imprint of God's nature

According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

Direct passage for divine power

Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.

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The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.

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One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

passage for one God and Father of all

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

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And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.

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The same was in the beginning with God.

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Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.

Supports Father and Son language, not full triadic wording

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

Direct Bible text used by Christians for God's spiritual nature

Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

Direct eternal-being language

But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

Used to describe the depths of God

Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

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