and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
Parallel translations
- KJV And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
- BSB to be renewed in the spirit of your minds;
- NKJV and be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
- NASB and that you are to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,
- NLT Instead, let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes.
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Quick answer
Believers are to be renewed in the spirit of their minds. Transformation reaches to the inner attitudes and thinking of the heart.
Overview
Between putting off and putting on stands renewal of the mind, the ongoing work of the Spirit reshaping a believer's inner outlook. This inward change drives outward conduct, countering the 'futility of mind' described earlier (4:17). Lasting holiness flows from a heart and mind made new.
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- Rom 12:2Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
- Rom 8:6For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;
- Ps 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
- Col 3:10and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
- 1 Pet 1:13Therefore prepare your minds for action, be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ —
- Ezek 36:26I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
- Titus 3:5not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
- Eph 2:10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
- Ezek 18:31Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?
- Ezek 11:19I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;
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