Wake up! Wake up! Clothe yourself with strength, O Zion! Put on your beautiful clothes, O Jerusalem, holy city! For uncircumcised and unclean pagans will no longer invade you.

He wears his desire for justice like body armor, and his desire to deliver is like a helmet on his head. He puts on the garments of vengeance and wears zeal like a robe.

The night has advanced toward dawn; the day is near. So then we must lay aside the works of darkness, and put on the weapons of light.

For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.

For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

and have been clothed with the new man that is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of the one who created it.

New

when he nullified in his flesh the law of commandments in decrees. He did this to create in himself one new man out of two, thus making peace,

Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life.

Therefore we do not despair, but even if our physical body is wearing away, our inner person is being renewed day by day.

So then, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; what is old has passed away -- look, what is new has come!

And yearn like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,

After

Then God said, "Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth."

And we all, with unveiled faces reflecting the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another, which is from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

and have been clothed with the new man that is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of the one who created it.

Dear friends, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever it is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.

Created

For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we may do them.

For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything; the only thing that matters is a new creation!

Righteousness

Your throne, O God, is permanent. The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of justice.

because those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.

He gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, who are eager to do good.

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

Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness, for without it no one will see the Lord.

And everyone who has this hope focused on him purifies himself, just as Jesus is pure).

True holiness

Set them apart in the truth; your word is truth.

General references

in holiness and righteousness before him for as long as we live.