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Perhaps these:

1Ti 4:7-8 But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness. For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

2Pe 1:4-8 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. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2Pe 1:10-11 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Eph 4:22-24 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

 
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Too numerous to list, really. Any Scripture that talks about putting on Christ, being baptized into his death/Resurrection, "being conformed to the image of [God's] Son," etc. It's a whole way of reading the New Testament... every time we see something about being joined to Christ we take it LITERALLY, meaning that we are being joined to the God-Man in a very organic sense, so that our humanity is divinized. And we grow in this "from glory to glory."

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Philip said:
I would say that all of Scripture describes theosis.

Exactly... it's the whole point. Don't let the "exotic Greek term" confuse you... what we are talking about is God becoming man, dying, and rising again, and "drawing all men to himself." It's just the central Christian mystery... fallen creation dying with Christ and being raised with him into his Divine Life.

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