Awake! awake! put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful robes, O Jerusalem, the holy town: for from now there will never again come into you the unclean and those without circumcision.

Yes, he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and salvation as a head-dress; and he put on punishment as clothing, and wrath as a robe.

The night is far gone, and the day is near: so let us put off the works of the dark, arming ourselves with light,

For this body which comes to destruction will be made free from the power of death, and the man who is under the power of death will put on eternal life.

For all those of you who were given baptism into Christ did put on Christ.

And have put on the new man, which has become new in knowledge after the image of his maker;

New

Having in his flesh put an end to that which made the division between us, even the law with its rules and orders, so that he might make in himself, of the two, one new man, so making peace;

We have been placed with him among the dead through baptism into death: so that as Christ came again from the dead by the glory of the Father, we, in the same way, might be living in new life.

For which cause we do not give way to weariness; but though our outer man is getting feebler, our inner man is made new day by day.

So if any man is in Christ, he is in a new world: the old things have come to an end; they have truly become new.

Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;

After

And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.

But we all, with unveiled face giving back as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord who is the Spirit.

And have put on the new man, which has become new in knowledge after the image of his maker;

My loved ones, now we are children of God, and at present it is not clear what we are to be. We are certain that at his revelation we will be like him; for we will see him as he is.

Created

For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.

For having circumcision is nothing, and not having circumcision is nothing, but only a new order of existence.

Righteousness

Your seat of power, O God, is for ever and ever; the rod of your kingdom is a rod of honour.

Because those of whom he had knowledge before they came into existence, were marked out by him to be made like his Son, so that he might be the first among a band of brothers:

Who gave himself for us, so that he might make us free from all wrongdoing, and make for himself a people clean in heart and on fire with good works.

But of the Son he says, Your seat of power, O God, is for ever and ever; and the rod of your kingdom is a rod of righteousness.

Let your desire be for peace with all men, and to be made holy, without which no man may see the Lord;

And everyone who has this hope in him makes himself holy, even as he is holy.

True holiness

Make them holy by the true word: your word is the true word.

General references

In righteousness and holy living before him all our days.