22 Bible Verses about Putting Off The Old Man
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Lie not one to another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man, which is renewed for knowledge, ac cording to the image of him that created him;
that, as to your former life, you put off the old man, which is corrupt, according to its deceitful desires, and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new man, which, according to the will of God, is created in righteousness and true holiness.
knowing this, that our former man has been crucified with him, in order that the sinful body may be deprived of its power, so that we should no longer serve sin:
I say this: Walk in the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the desires of the flesh. For the desire of the flesh is against the Spirit, and the desire of the Spirit is against flesh; and these are opposed, the one to the other, so that you can not do what you would. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law.
If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Therefore, laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings,
as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the desires which you formerly had in your ignorance;
He himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. By his stripes you were healed.
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin.
But strong food belongs to those who are of mature age, who, by use, have their internal senses exercised to the discerning of both good and evil.
so, even for this very purpose, uniting to these things all diligence, add to your faith, virtue; and to virtue, knowledge; and to knowledge, temperance; and to temperance, patience; and to patience, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.read more.
For if these things be in you, and abound, they cause you to be neither idle, nor unfruitful as it respects the acknowledgment of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he who is wanting in these things is blind, and closes his eyes, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.
Know you not that as many of us as were immersed into Christ Jesus, were immersed into his death?
Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh; for if you live according to the flesh, you shall die: but if, through the Spirit, you put to death the deeds of the body, you shall live.
for as many of you as have been immersed into Christ, have put on Christ.
teaching us, that denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in the present age; looking for the blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you keep yourselves from lewdness;
Put to death, therefore, your members that are on the earth, lewdness, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry; on account of these things the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience, in which things you also formerly walked when you lived in them.read more.
But now do you also put away all these anger, wrath, malice, reviling, obscene language from your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his deeds,
Shun lewdness. Every sin that a man commits, is without the body; but he that is guilty of lewdness sins against his own body.
But lewdness, and all manner of uncleanness, or covetousness, let them not be named among you, as it becomes saints;
Let all bitterness and anger and wrath and clamor and impious speaking be put away from you, with all malice:
Nor do men put new wine into old bottles; if so, the bottles burst, and the wine runs out, and the bottles are lost. But they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.