And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
Parallel translations
- WEB and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
- BSB and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
- NKJV and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him,
- NASB and have put on the new self, which is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created it—
- NLT Put on your new nature, and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like him.
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They have put on the new self, which is being renewed in the image of its Creator. Christians are being progressively remade to reflect God.
Overview
Having taken off the old self, believers 'have put on the new man,' a new self created in union with Christ. This new self 'is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,' restoring the divine image marred by the fall. Sanctification is God's ongoing work of conforming us to Christ, in whom that image is perfectly seen.
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- Eph 4:23–24And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
- Rom 12:2And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
- Eph 2:10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
- 2 Cor 5:17Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
- Col 3:12Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
- Ps 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
- Ezek 11:19And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
- Ezek 36:26A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
- Col 3:14And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
- Rom 13:14But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
- 1 Jn 2:5But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
- 1 Jn 2:3And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
- Rom 8:29For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
- 2 Cor 4:6For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
- Eph 2:15Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
- John 17:3And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
- Ezek 18:31Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
- 1 Pet 1:14–15As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
- Gal 6:15For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
- 2 Cor 3:18But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the LORD.
- Gen 1:26–27And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
- Rom 13:12The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
- Rev 21:5And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
- Isa 52:1Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
- 1 Cor 15:53–54For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
- Gal 3:27For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
- Heb 6:6If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
- Job 29:14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
- Isa 59:17For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
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