22 Bible Verses about Putting Off The Old Man

You must not lie to one another. For you have stripped off your old self with its ways and have put on that new self newly made in the likeness of its Creator, to know him fully.

You must lay aside with your former habits your old self which is going to ruin through its deceptive passions. You must adopt a new attitude of mind, and put on the new self which has been created in likeness to God, with all the uprightness and holiness that belong to the truth.

for we know that our old self was crucified with him, to do away with our sinful body, so that we might not be enslaved to sin any longer,

I mean this: Live by the Spirit, and then you will not indulge your physical cravings. For the physical cravings are against the Spirit, and the cravings of the Spirit are against the physical; the two are in opposition, so that you cannot do anything you please. But if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not subject to law.

If we live by the Spirit, let us be guided by the Spirit.

Free yourselves, therefore, from all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of any kind,

Like obedient children, do not adapt yourselves to the cravings you used to follow when you were ignorant,

He carried the burden of our sins in his own body on the cross, in order that we might die to sin and live for uprightness. By his wounds you have been healed.

If we say, "We have fellowship with him," and yet live in darkness, we are lying and not living the truth. But if we live in the light, just as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from every sin.

But full-grown men have a right to solid food, for their faculties are trained by practice to distinguish right and wrong.

But let worldly fictions and old wives' tales alone. Train yourself for the religious life.

For this very reason make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge, knowledge with self-control, self-control with steadfastness, steadfastness with piety, piety with a spirit of brotherhood, and the spirit of brotherhood with love.read more.
For if you have these qualities in their fulness, they will make you neither idle nor unproductive when it comes to the understanding of our Lord Jesus Christ. For whoever lacks these qualities is blind or near-sighted, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his former sins.

Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into union with Christ Jesus have been baptized into his death?

So, brothers, we are under obligations, but not to the physical nature, to live under its control, for if you live under the control of the physical you will die, but if, by means of the Spirit, you put the body's doings to death, you will live.

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

training us to renounce godless ways and worldly passions, and live serious, upright, and godly lives in this world, while we wait for the fulfilment of our blessed hope in the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Christ Jesus.

It is God's will that you should be consecrated, that you abstain from immorality,

So treat as dead your physical nature, as far as immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed are concerned; for it is really idolatry. It is on account of these things that God's anger is coming. And you once practiced them as others do, when you lived that old earthly life.read more.
But now you too must put them all aside??nger, rage, spite, rough, abusive talk??hese must be banished from your lips. You must not lie to one another. For you have stripped off your old self with its ways

Fly from immorality! Any other sin a man commits is something outside his body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

But immorality or any form of vice or greed must not be so much as mentioned among you; that would not be becoming in God's people.

You must give up all bitterness, rage, anger, and loud, abusive talk, and all spite.

And people do not put new wine into old wine-skins, or if they do, the skins burst, and the wine runs out and the skins are spoiled. But people put new wine into fresh wine-skins, and so both are saved."