22 Bible Verses about Putting Off The Old Man

Tell no lies to one another; you have stripped off the old nature with its practices, and put on the new nature which is renewed in the likeness of its Creator for the knowledge of him.

you must lay aside the old nature which belonged to your former course of life, that nature which crumbles to ruin under the passions of moral deceit, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, putting on the new nature, that divine pattern which has been created in the upright and pious character of the Truth.

knowing as we do that our old self has been crucified with him in order to crush the sinful body and free us from any further slavery to sin

I mean, lead the life of the Spirit; then you will never satisfy the passions of the flesh. For the passion of the flesh is against the Spirit, and the passion of the Spirit against the flesh ??the two are at issue, so that you are not free to do as you please. If you are under the sway of the Spirit, you are not under the Law.

As we live by the Spirit, let us be guided by the Spirit;

So off with all malice, all guile and insincerity and envy and slander of every kind!

Be obedient children, instead of moulding yourselves to the passions that once ruled the days of your ignorance;

he bore our sins in his own body on the gibbet, that we might break with sin and live for righteousness; and by his wounds you have been healed.

If we say, 'We have fellowship with him,' when we live and move in darkness, then we are lying, we are not practising the truth; but if we live and move within the light, as he is within the light, then we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from every sin.

Whereas solid food is for the mature, for those who have their faculties trained by exercise to distinguish good and evil.)

Shut your mind against these profane, drivelling myths; train for the religious life.

intelligence with self-control, self-control with stedfastness, stedfastness with piety, piety with brotherliness, brotherliness with Christian love. For as these qualities exist and increase with you, they render you active and fruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;read more.
whereas he who has not these by him is blind, shortsighted, oblivious that he has been cleansed from his erstwhile sins.

Surely you know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into his death!

Well then, my brothers, we owe a duty ??but it is not to the flesh! It is not to live by the flesh! If you live by the flesh, you are on the road to death; but if by the Spirit you put the actions of the body to death, you will live.

(for all of you who had yourselves baptized into Christ have taken on the character of Christ).

and it schools us to renounce irreligion and worldly passions and to live a life of self-mastery, of integrity, and of piety in this present world, awaiting the blessed hope of the appearance of the Glory of the great God and of our Saviour Christ Jesus,

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

So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry), things that bring down the anger of God on the sons of disobedience. Once you moved among them, when you lived in them;read more.
but off with them all now, off with anger, rage, malice, slander, foul talk! Tell no lies to one another; you have stripped off the old nature with its practices,

Shun immorality! Any other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his body.

Never let any sexual vice or impurity or lust be so much as mentioned by you ??that is the proper course for saints to take;

Drop all bitter feeling and passion and anger and clamouring and insults, together with all malice;

nor do men pour fresh wine into old wineskins, otherwise the wineskins burst, and the wine is spilt, the wineskins are ruined. They put fresh wine into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved."