22 Bible Verses about Putting Off The Old Man
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Lie not to one another, having put off the old man with big deeds; And having put on the new, being renewed in knowledge according to the image of him having created him:
For you to put away according to the former mode of life the old man, corrupted according to the eager desires of deceit; And to be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And to put on the new man, created according to God in justice and sanctity of truth.
Knowing this, that our old man was crucified together, that the body of sin might be left inactive, for us no more to serve sin.
And I say, Walk in Spirit, and complete not the desire of the flesh. For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are adverse to one another: that not the things ye would, these should ye do. And if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Therefore setting aside all wickedness, and all artifice, and dissimulation; and envies, and all calumnies,
As children of obedience, not as formerly conforming yourselves to eager desire in your ignorance:
Who himself bear up our sins in his body upon the wood, that we, removed from sins, should live to justice: by whose bloody mark ye were healed.
If we say that we have communion with him, and walk in darkness, we are deceived, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have communion with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from every sin.
And firm food is of the perfected, of them by habit having the senses exercised for the separation of good and evil.
And also this same, having brought in at the side all earnestness, furnish in addition in your faith fitness; and In fitness knowledge; And in knowledge self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience devotion; And in devotion brotherly love; and in brotherly love, love.read more.
For these being to you, and abounding, they establish you not without effort, neither unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For in whom these are not present, he is blind, being affected with shortness of sight, having taken 2Peter 1:forgetfulness of the cleansing formerly of his sins.
Or know ye not, that as many of us as were immersed in Christ Jesus, we were immersed into his death?
Therefore, brethren, we are not debtors to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if ye live according to the flesh, ye shall die: and if by the Spirit ye kill the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
For as many of you as were immersed into Christ have put on Christ.
Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and eager worldly desires, we should live discreetly, and justly, and religiously, in the time now; Expecting the blessed hope, and apppearance of the glory of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
For this is the will of God, your consecration, that ye should keep away from fornication:
Therefore kill your members that are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry: For these comes the Wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience: In which also ye then walked, when ye lived in them.read more.
And now ye also put them all away; anger, wrath, badness, slander, shameful language out of your mouth. Lie not to one another, having put off the old man with big deeds;
Flee fornication. Every sin which if a man do is without the body; but he committing fornication sins against his own body.
And fornication, and all uncleanness, or overreaching, let it not be named with you, as becomes the holy;
Let all harshness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and slander, be put away from you, with all badness:
Neither do they cast new wine into old wineskins: but if otherwise, the wine-skins burst, and the wine is poured out, and the wine-skins are destroyed; but they cast new wine into new wine-skins, and they are both preserved.