So, then, if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

for he has made him, who knew no sin, a sin-offering for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet, for your sakes, he became poor, that you, through his poverty, might become rich.

I have become of no understanding; you have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you: I am in no respect inferior to the very greatest of the apostles, although I am nothing.