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22 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
Ephesians 4:22–24 (ESV)
The old self, had been put off
9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices
Colossians 3:9 (ESV)
6 We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. Romans 6:6 (ESV)
The new self, had been put on
10 and have put on the new self . . .
Colossians 3:10 (ESV)
7 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths. Genesis 3:7 (ESV)
21 And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.
Genesis 3:21 (ESV)
The new self is in the process of growth toward a new goal
10 . . . which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Colossians 3:10 (ESV)
15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. Colossians 1:15 (ESV)
26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness . . . Genesis 1:26 (ESV)
16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. 2 Corinthians 4:16 (ESV)
The new self’s ultimate identity
11 Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.
Colossians 3:11 (ESV)
22 And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, 23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all. Ephesians 1:22–23 (ESV)