new creation

¹⁷So if anyone is a new creature in Christ, what is old has passed away. Behold, all things have been made new.

²And do not choose to be conformed to this age, but instead choose to be reformed in the newness of your mind, so that you may demonstrate what is the will of God: what is good, and what is well-pleasing, and what is perfect.

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. ²And I, John, saw the Holy City, the New Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband. ³And I heard a great voice from the throne, saying: “Behold the tabernacle of God with men. And he will dwell with them, and they will be his people. And God himself will be their God with them. ⁴And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes. And death shall be no more. And neither mourning, nor crying out, nor grief shall be anymore. For the first things have passed away.” 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.” ⁶And he said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To those who thirst, I will give freely from the fountain of the water of life.

¹⁸We know that everyone who is born of God does not sin. Instead, rebirth in God preserves him, and the evil one cannot touch him.

⁹All those who have been born of God do not commit sin. For the offspring of God abides in them, and he is not able to sin, because he was born of God.

¹⁰and clothe yourself with the new man, who has been renewed by knowledge, in accord with the image of the One who created him,

⁸For by grace, you have been saved through faith. And this is not of yourselves, for it is a gift of God. ⁹And this is not of works, so that no one may glory.

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.

²⁰But this is not what you have learned in Christ. ²¹For certainly, you have listened to him, and you have been instructed in him, according to the truth that is in Jesus: ²²to set aside your earlier behavior, the former man, who was corrupted, by means of desire, unto error, ²³and so be renewed in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴and so put on the new man, who, in accord with God, is created in justice and in the holiness of truth.

¹For we know that, when our earthly house of this habitation is dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven. ²And for this reason also, we groan, desiring to be clothed from above with our habitation from heaven. ³If we are so clothed, then we will not be found to be naked. ⁴Then too, we who are in this tabernacle groan under the burden, because we do not want to be stripped, but rather to be clothed from above, so that what is mortal may be absorbed by life. ⁵Now the One who accomplishes this very thing in us is God, who has given us the pledge of the Spirit. ⁶Therefore, we are ever confident, knowing that, while we are in the body, we are on a pilgrimage in the Lord.

¹⁵For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision prevails in any way, but instead there is a new creature.

¹³For all those who have called upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

⁵And night shall be no more. And they will not need the light of a lamp, nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God will illuminate them. And they shall reign forever and ever.

¹⁵And whoever was not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the pool of fire.