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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.
20I live; yet now, it is not I, but truly Christ, who lives in me. And though I live now in the flesh, I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and who delivered himself for me.
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.
17So if anyone is a new creature in Christ, what is old has passed away. Behold, all things have been made new. 18But all is of God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ, and who has given us the ministry of reconciliation. 19For certainly God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not charging them with their sins. And he has placed in us the Word of reconciliation. 20Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, so that God is exhorting through us. We beseech you for Christ: be reconciled to God. 21For God made him who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the justice of God in 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,
10For we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for the good works which God has prepared and in which we should walk.
19And I will give them one heart. And I will distribute a new spirit to their interior. And I will take away the heart of stone from their body. And I will give them a heart of flesh. 20So may they may walk in my precepts, and observe my judgments, and accomplish them. And so may they be my people, and I will be their God.
1So what shall we say? Should we remain in sin, so that grace may abound? 2Let it not be so! For how can we who have died to sin still live in sin? 3Do you not know that those of us who have been baptized in Christ Jesus have been baptized into his death? 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. 5For if we have been planted together, in the likeness of his death, so shall we also be, in the likeness of his resurrection. 6For we know this: that our former selves have been crucified together with him, so that the body which is of sin may be destroyed, and moreover, so that we may no longer serve sin.
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.
4Through Christ, he has given us the greatest and most precious promises, so that by these things you may become sharers in the Divine Nature, fleeing from the corruption of that desire which is in the world.
18Yet truly, all of us, as we gaze upon the unveiled glory of the face of the Lord, are transfigured into the same image, from one glory to another. And this is done by the Spirit of the Lord.