22 Bible Verses about Putting Off The Old Man

Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.

You were taught, with regard to your former manner of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and put on the new nature, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh; for these are opposed to each other, so that you may not do what you would. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law.

If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.

Therefore, put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance,

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.

If we say we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not live according to the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their sense trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.

Have nothing to do with godless myths and old wives' tales; rather, train yourself in godliness.

For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge, and to knowledge, self-control, and to self-control, perseverance, and to perseverance, godliness, and to godliness, brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness, love.read more.
For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For whoever lacks these things is blind and shortsighted, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.

Or do you not know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

Therefore, brethren, we are debtorsnot to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

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

training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sober, upright, and godly lives in this present age, looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus,

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that is, that you should abstain from sexual immorality;

Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. In these you once walked, when you lived in them.read more.
But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and filthy language from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old self with its practices

Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

Neither do they put new wine into old wineskins; if they do, the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins are ruined. But they put new wine into new wineskins, and so both are preserved."