Awake, awake! Clothe yourself with strength, O Zion! Put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city, for the uncircumcised and the unclean won't enter you.

He put on righteousness like a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head; he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and wrapped himself in fury like a cloak.

The night is almost over, and the day is near. Let's therefore put aside the actions of darkness and put on the armor of light.

For what is decaying must be clothed with what cannot decay, and what is dying must be clothed with what cannot die.

Indeed, all of you who were baptized into the Messiah have clothed yourselves with the Messiah.

and have clothed yourselves with the new nature, which is being renewed in full knowledge, consistent with the image of the one who created it.

New

He rendered the Law inoperative, along with its commandments and regulations, thus creating in himself one new humanity from the two, thereby making peace,

Therefore, through baptism we were buried with him into his death so that, just as the Messiah was raised from the dead by the Father's glory, we too may live an entirely new life.

That's why we are not discouraged. No, even if outwardly we are wearing out, inwardly we are being renewed each and every day.

Therefore, if anyone is in the Messiah, he is a new creation. Old things have disappeared, and look! all things have become new!

Like newborn babies, thirst for the pure milk of the word so that by it you may grow in your salvation.

After

Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, to be like us. Let them be masters over the fish in the ocean, the birds that fly, the livestock, everything that crawls on the earth, and over the earth itself!"

As all of us reflect the glory of the Lord with unveiled faces, we are becoming more like him with ever-increasing glory by the Lord's Spirit.

and have clothed yourselves with the new nature, which is being renewed in full knowledge, consistent with the image of the one who created it.

Dear friends, we are now God's children, but what we will be like has not been revealed yet. We know that when the Messiah is revealed, we will be like him, because we will see him as he is.

Created

For we are God's masterpiece, created in the Messiah Jesus to perform good actions that God prepared long ago to be our way of life.

For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision matters. Rather, what matters is being a new creation.

Righteousness

Your throne, God, exists forever and ever, and the scepter of your kingdom is a righteous scepter.

For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that the Son might be the firstborn among many brothers.

He gave himself for us to set us free from every wrong and to cleanse us so that we could be his special people who are enthusiastic about doing good deeds.

But about the Son he says, "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, and the scepter of your kingdom is a righteous scepter.

Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.

And everyone who has this hope based on him keeps himself pure, just as the Messiah is pure.

True holiness

"Sanctify them by the truth. Your word is truth.

General references

and be holy and righteous before him all of our days.