And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Parallel translations
- WEB and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
- 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.
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Cross-references · 25
- Col 3:10–14And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
- 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.
- 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.
- Rom 13:14But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
- Eph 6:11Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
- Rom 6:4Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2 Cor 4:16For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
- 1 Jn 3:2–3Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
- Titus 2:14Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
- 1 Pet 2:2As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
- 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.
- John 17:17Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
- 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.
- Gal 6:15For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
- 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.
- Gal 3:27For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
- Job 29:14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
- 1 Cor 15:53For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
- Ps 45:6–7Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.
- 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;
- 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.
- Heb 1:8But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
- Heb 12:14Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
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