2 Corinthians 5:17
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17 This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
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Ezekiel 36:26
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26 And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart.[a]
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- 36:26 Hebrew a heart of flesh.
Ephesians 4:22-24
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22 throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception. 23 Instead, let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes. 24 Put on your new nature, created to be like God—truly righteous and holy.
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Isaiah 43:18-19
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18 “But forget all that—
it is nothing compared to what I am going to do.
19 For I am about to do something new.
See, I have already begun! Do you not see it?
I will make a pathway through the wilderness.
I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.
John 3:3
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3 Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, unless you are born again,[a] you cannot see the Kingdom of God.”
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Psalm 51:10
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10 Create in me a clean heart, O God.
Renew a loyal spirit within me.
Ezekiel 11:19
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19 And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them. I will take away their stony, stubborn heart and give them a tender, responsive heart,[a]
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- 11:19 Hebrew a heart of flesh.
Colossians 3:1-10
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Living the New Life
3 Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits in the place of honor at God’s right hand. 2 Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth. 3 For you died to this life, and your real life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 And when Christ, who is your[a] life, is revealed to the whole world, you will share in all his glory.
5 So put to death the sinful, earthly things lurking within you. Have nothing to do with sexual immorality, impurity, lust, and evil desires. Don’t be greedy, for a greedy person is an idolater, worshiping the things of this world. 6 Because of these sins, the anger of God is coming.[b] 7 You used to do these things when your life was still part of this world. 8 But now is the time to get rid of anger, rage, malicious behavior, slander, and dirty language. 9 Don’t lie to each other, for you have stripped off your old sinful nature and all its wicked deeds. 10 Put on your new nature, and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like him.
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Romans 8:1
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Life in the Spirit
8 So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus.
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Galatians 6:15
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15 It doesn’t matter whether we have been circumcised or not. What counts is whether we have been transformed into a new creation.
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Ephesians 2:10
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10 For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.
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Romans 8:9-10
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9 But you are not controlled by your sinful nature. You are controlled by the Spirit if you have the Spirit of God living in you. (And remember that those who do not have the Spirit of Christ living in them do not belong to him at all.) 10 And Christ lives within you, so even though your body will die because of sin, the Spirit gives you life[a] because you have been made right with God.
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- 8:10 Or your spirit is alive.
1 Corinthians 1:30
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30 God has united you with Christ Jesus. For our benefit God made him to be wisdom itself. Christ made us right with God; he made us pure and holy, and he freed us from sin.
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Romans 6:4-6
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4 For we died and were buried with Christ by baptism. And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, now we also may live new lives.
5 Since we have been united with him in his death, we will also be raised to life as he was. 6 We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin.
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Ezekiel 18:31
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31 Put all your rebellion behind you, and find yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O people of Israel?
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2 Corinthians 5:21
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21 For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin,[a] so that we could be made right with God through Christ.
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- 5:21 Or to become sin itself.
John 15:5
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5 “Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing.
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Philippians 3:7-9
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7 I once thought these things were valuable, but now I consider them worthless because of what Christ has done. 8 Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ 9 and become one with him. I no longer count on my own righteousness through obeying the law; rather, I become righteous through faith in Christ.[a] For God’s way of making us right with himself depends on faith.
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- 3:9 Or through the faithfulness of Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:16
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16 So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How differently we know him now!
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John 3:5
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5 Jesus replied, “I assure you, no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit.[a]
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Ephesians 2:15
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15 He did this by ending the system of law with its commandments and regulations. He made peace between Jews and Gentiles by creating in himself one new people from the two groups.
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John 15:2
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2 He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more.
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Ephesians 1:3-4
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Spiritual Blessings
3 All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ. 4 Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes.
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Galatians 3:28
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28 There is no longer Jew or Gentile,[a] slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.
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- 3:28 Greek Jew or Greek.
John 14:20
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20 When I am raised to life again, you will know that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
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