2 Corinthians 5:17

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Summary

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Be

A new

Old

General references

Luke 5:38

Bible References

Be

We are to tell how God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not charging men's transgressions to their account, and that He has entrusted to us the Message of this reconciliation.

I know a Christian man who fourteen years ago-- whether in the body I do not know, or out of the body I do not know; God knows--was caught up (this man of whom I am speaking)

At that time you will know that I am in my Father, and that you are in me, and that I am in you.

Every branch in me--if it bears no fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

I in them and Thou in me; that they may stand perfected in one; that the world may come to understand that Thou didst send me and hast loved them with the same love as that with which Thou hast loved me.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus;

and to Andronicus and Junia, my countrymen, who once shared my imprisonment. They are of note among the Apostles, and are Christians of longer standing than myself.

But you--and it is all God's doing--are in Christ Jesus: He has become for us a wisdom which is from God, consisting of righteousness and sanctification and deliverance;

In Him the distinctions between Jew and Gentile, slave and free man, male and female, disappear; you are all one in Christ Jesus.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is of any importance; but only faith working through love.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has crowned us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ;

My Christian greetings to every one of God's people. The brethren who are with me send their greetings.

A new

"Either grant the tree to be wholesome and its fruit wholesome, or the tree poisonous and its fruit poisonous; for the tree is known by its fruit.

"In most solemn truth I tell you," answered Jesus, "that unless a man is born anew he cannot see the Kingdom of God."

For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is of any importance; but only a renewed nature.

For we are God's own handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good works which He has pre-destined us to practise.

Old

Therefore for the future we know no one simply as a man. Even if we have known Christ as a man, yet now we do so no longer.

No one ever mends an old cloak with a patch of newly woven cloth. Otherwise, the patch put on would tear away some of the old, and a worse hole would be made.

Earth and sky will pass away, but it is certain that my words will not pass away.

Well, then, we by our baptism were buried with Him in death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from among the dead by the Father's glorious power, we also should live an entirely new life.

But seeing that we have died to that which once held us in bondage, the Law has now no hold over us, so that we render a service which, instead of being old and formal, is new and spiritual.

You, however, are not devoted to earthly, but to spiritual things, if the Spirit of God is really dwelling in you; whereas if any man has not the Spirit of Christ, such a one does not belong to Him.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, felt like a child, reasoned like a child: when I became a man, I put from me childish ways.

by setting aside the Law with its commandments, expressed, as they were, in definite decrees. His design was to unite the two sections of humanity in Himself so as to form one new man,

to put away, in regard to your former mode of life, your original evil nature which is doomed to perish as befits its misleading impulses,

Yet all that was gain to me--for Christ's sake I have reckoned it loss.

If however you have risen with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, enthroned at God's right hand.

a Covenant unlike the one which I made with their forefathers on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out from the land of Egypt; for they would not remain faithful to that.' 'So I turned from them,' says the Lord.

The day of the Lord will come like a thief--it will be a day on which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, the elements be destroyed in the fierce heat, and the earth and all the works of man be utterly burnt up.

And I saw a new Heaven and a new earth; for the first Heaven and the first earth were gone, and the sea no longer exists.

General references

But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.