and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all. Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.
who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.
Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—
For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Awake, awake, put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; for there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.
For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban.
by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace,
Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of uprightness; you have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions;
He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head; he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and wrapped himself in zeal as a cloak.
Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom.
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