Awake! Awake! Put on your strength, Zion; put on your beautiful robes, O Jerusalem, the holy city. For never again shall come to you uncircumcised and unclean ones.

For He put on righteousness like a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on His head. And He put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was covered with zeal like a cloak.

The night is far spent, the day is at hand; therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

For as many as were baptized into Christ, you put on Christ.

and having put on the new, having been renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him,

New

having abolished in His flesh the enmity (the Law of commandments contained in ordinances) so that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, making peace between them;

Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father; even so we also should walk in newness of life.

For this cause we do not faint; but though our outward man perishes, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.

So that if any one is in Christ, that one is a new creature; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;

After

And 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 fowl of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creepers creeping on the earth.

But we all, with our face having been unveiled, having beheld the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are being changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Lord Spirit.

and having put on the new, having been renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him,

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be. But we know that when He shall be revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.

Created

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision has any strength, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

Righteousness

Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; the staff of Your kingdom is a staff of righteousness.

For whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, for Him to be the First-born among many brothers.

who gave Himself for us that He might redeem us from all iniquity and purify to Himself a special people, zealous of good works.

But to the Son He says, "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom.

Follow peace with all, and holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord;

And everyone who has this hope on him purifies himself, even as that One is pure.

True holiness

Sanctify them through Your truth. Your Word is truth.

General references

in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.