“I know some people who call themselves Christians but they are no different than I am.”

Galations 6:15
"...what counts is a new creation."

1 John 5:10
"...Anyone who believes in the Son of God has this testimony in his heart." (ie God’s testimony about his Son: Jesus Christ v9)

2 Corinthians 3:18
"...And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit."

Philippians 2:5
"... Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing..."

1 John 2:6
"...Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did."