22 Bible Verses about Putting Off The Old Man
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Lie not one to another, seeing ye have put off the old man with his practices; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge, after the image of him that created him.
that ye put off respecting your former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful passions; but be renewed in the spirit of your minds; and put on the new man, which is created godlike, in righteousness and true holiness.
knowing this, that our old man hath been crucified with him, that the body of sin might be abolished, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.
But I say, Walk in the Spirit, and ye will not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh hath appetites contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these act in opposition the one to the other: so that ye do not the things which ye would. But if ye are under the conduct of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.
WHEREFORE putting far away wickedness of every kind, and all deceit, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all backbitings,
as obedient children, not conformed to the former passions of the days of your ignorance:
who himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead unto sins, might live unto righteousness; "by whose stripes, [even] his, ye were healed."
If we say that we have communion with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and practise not the truth: but if we walk in the light, as he is himself in the light, we have communion with each other, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
But solid nourishment is proper for grown men, even as many as by habit have their organs of perception exercised for the discernment both of good and evil.
and with intelligence moderation; and with moderation patience; and with patience piety; and with piety fraternal affection; and with fraternal affection love. For if these things are in your possession, and abounding, they will render you neither inactive nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.read more.
But he that hath no possession of these things, is blind, dim-sighted, sinking into oblivion of his purification from the sins of his former days.
Do ye not know, that as many as have been baptised into Christ Jesus have been baptised into his death?
Truly then we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye are ready to die: but if by the Spirit ye mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
For as many of you as have been baptised into Christ, have been invested with Christ.
instructing us, that denying ungodliness and worldly affections, we should live soberly and righteously, and godly in the present day; expecting the blessed hope, and glorious appearing of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ;
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from whoredom;
Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, the vile passion, evil concupiscence, and insatiable desire, which is idolatry: for which things the wrath of God cometh upon the children of disobedience; in which ye also walked formerly when ye lived among them:read more.
but now ye have put away all these things, anger, asperity, malice, scandal, obscenity, out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing ye have put off the old man with his practices;
Flee whoredom. Every other sin which a man may commit is without the body; but he who committeth whoredom sinneth against his own body.
But fornication and all impurity, or insatiable desire, let it not be mentioned among you, as becometh saints;
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and scandal, be removed from you, with all malice:
Nor do they put new wine into old bottles: but if they do, the bottles burst, and the wine is spilt, and the bottles are destroyed: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
