Thematic Bible: The old man

[that] you take off, according to your former way of life, the old man, who is being destroyed according to deceitful desires,

Verse Concepts

Becoming More Like ChristThe Sin NatureLustAttention SeekersThrowing AwaySelf DisciplineSelfishnessUnselfishnessCharacter Of WickedForsaking Sin

Crucifying Our FleshDeath To SelfOld NaturePeople Stripping OffAvoiding DeceitEvil DesiresPartyingChange And GrowthpersonalityMoral Decay

Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 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 also we may live {a new way of life}. For if we have become identified with [him] in the likeness of his death, certainly also we will be [identified with him in the likeness] of [his] resurrection, read more.
knowing this, that our old man was crucified together with [him], in order that the body of sin may be done away with, [that] we may no longer be enslaved to sin.