a new creation
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17So if anyone is a new creature in Christ, what is old has passed away. Behold, all things have been made new.
15For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision prevails in any way, but instead there is a new creature.
3Jesus responded and said to him, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless one has been reborn anew, he is not able to see the kingdom of God.”
18You need not call to mind the past, nor consider the things of antiquity. 19Behold, I am accomplishing new things. And presently, they will spring forth. With certainty, you will know them. I will make a way in the desert, and rivers in an impassible place.
4For through baptism we have been buried with him into death, so that, in the manner that Christ rose from the dead, by the glory of the Father, so may we also walk in the newness of life.
17For behold, I create the new heavens and the new earth. And the former things will not be in memory and will not enter into the heart.
23For you have been born again, not from corruptible seed, but from what is incorruptible, from the Word of God, living and remaining for all eternity.
5And the One who was sitting upon the throne, said, “Behold, I make all things new.” And he said to me, “Write, for these words are entirely faithful and true.”
13Yet truly, in accord with his promises, we are looking forward to the new heavens and the new earth, in which justice lives.
26And I will give to you a new heart, and I will place in you a new spirit. And I will take away the heart of stone from your body, and I will give to you a heart of flesh.
24and so put on the new man, who, in accord with God, is created in justice and in the holiness of truth.
1I saw the new heaven and the new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and the sea is no more.
10For we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for the good works which God has prepared and in which we should walk.
5And he saved us, not by works of justice that we had done, but, in accord with his mercy, by the washing of regeneration and by the renovation of the Holy Spirit,
10and clothe yourself with the new man, who has been renewed by knowledge, in accord with the image of the One who created him,
9Do not lie to one another. Strip yourselves of the old man, with his deeds, 10and clothe yourself with the new man, who has been renewed by knowledge, in accord with the image of the One who created him,