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and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
Ephesians 4:24 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
  • BSB and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
  • NKJV and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.
  • NASB and to put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.
  • NLT Put on your new nature, created to be like God—truly righteous and holy.

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Quick answer

Believers are to put on the new self, created after God in true righteousness and holiness. The Christian is a new creation meant to reflect God's own character.

Overview

Completing the imagery, Paul calls believers to clothe themselves with the 'new man,' created in God's likeness in righteousness and holiness. This restores the image of God marred by sin. The new self is God's creation in Christ, and living it out is the heart of Christian sanctification.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 25

  • Col 3:10–14and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
  • 2 Cor 5:17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
  • Eph 2:10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
  • Rom 13:14But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
  • Eph 6:11Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
  • Rom 6:4We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
  • 2 Cor 3:18But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
  • Rom 13:12The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the deeds of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.
  • 2 Cor 4:16Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.
  • 1 Jn 3:2–3Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.
  • Titus 2:14who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
  • 1 Pet 2:2as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,
  • Gen 1:26–27God 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 birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
  • John 17:17Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.
  • Rom 8:29For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
  • Gal 6:15For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
  • Isa 52:1Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.
  • Gal 3:27For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
  • Job 29:14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
  • 1 Cor 15:53For this perishable body must become imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.
  • Ps 45:6–7Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.
  • Eph 2:15having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace;
  • Isa 59:17He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head. He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.
  • Heb 1:8But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.
  • Heb 12:14Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

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Christ at the center

Every spiritual blessing is 'in Christ,' the head over all things for the church, in whom Jew and Gentile are made one new man by his blood.

How Ephesians 4:24 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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