Awake, awake, put on your strength, Zion; put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.

He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.

The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let's therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let's put on the armor of light.

For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

New

having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace;

We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

Therefore we don't faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby,

After

God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

Created

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

Righteousness

Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.

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

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

But of the Son he says, "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

True holiness

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

General references

In holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.