22 Bible Verses about Putting Off The Old Man
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lie not one to another; put off the old man with his doings, and put on the new man, renewed in knowledge in the likeness of him that created him,
that you should lay aside your former mode of life the old man destroyed by deceitful desires, and be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and put on the new man, created after God in righteousness and true holiness.
knowing this that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we should no longer serve sin;
And I say, walk in the Spirit and perform not the desire of the flesh. For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are opposed one to another, so that you do not what you wish. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Laying aside therefore all malice and all deceit and hypocrisies and envies and all evil speakings,
As obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the desires of your former ignorance,
who himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, that we having died to sins, may live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie and observe not the truth; but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
but solid food is for the perfect, having their perceptive faculties exercised by practice to distinguish both good and evil.
and for the same purpose also, giving all diligence add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge, and to knowledge temperance, and to temperance patience, and to patience piety, and to piety brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.read more.
For if these are in you and abound, they will make you not inactive nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ; for a man that is without these is blind, not seeing to a distance, and has forgotten the purification from his former errors.
Do you not know that as many of us as were baptized in Christ were baptized in his death?
Therefore, brothers, we are debtors not to the flesh to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die; but if by the spirit you kill the deeds of the body, you shall live.
for as many of you as are baptized in Christ, have put on Christ.
teaching us, that denying impiety and worldly desires we should live soberly, and righteously, and piously in the present life, looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and of our Saviour Jesus Christ,
For this is the will of God, your purity, that you should abstain from fornication,
Put to death, therefore, your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness which is idolatry, for which comes the wrath of God. In which also you walked formerly when you lived in them;read more.
but now do you put away also all these, anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, vile conversation out of your mouth; lie not one to another; put off the old man with his doings,
Avoid fornication. Every crime that a man commits is out of his body; but he that commits fornication sins in his body.
Let not fornication and any impurity or covetousness be named among you, as becomes saints,
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and blasphemy, be banished from among you, with all malice.
Neither do they put new wine into old bottles; otherwise the bottles break, and the wine is poured out and the bottles destroyed; but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
