You are the people of God; he loved you and chose you for his own. So then, you must clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.

And to all these qualities add love, which binds all things together in perfect unity.

I have always acted justly and fairly.

Jerusalem, be strong and great again! Holy city of God, clothe yourself with splendor! The heathen will never enter your gates again.

He will wear justice like a coat of armor and saving power like a helmet. He will clothe himself with the strong desire to set things right and to punish and avenge the wrongs that people suffer.

The night is nearly over, day is almost here. Let us stop doing the things that belong to the dark, and let us take up weapons for fighting in the light.

But take up the weapons of the Lord Jesus Christ, and stop paying attention to your sinful nature and satisfying its desires.

For what is mortal must be changed into what is immortal; what will die must be changed into what cannot die.

So when this takes place, and the mortal has been changed into the immortal, then the scripture will come true: "Death is destroyed; victory is complete!"

You were baptized into union with Christ, and now you are clothed, so to speak, with the life of Christ himself.

and you must put on the new self, which is created in God's likeness and reveals itself in the true life that is upright and holy.

I will give them a new heart and a new mind. I will take away their stubborn heart of stone and will give them an obedient heart.

Give up all the evil you have been doing, and get yourselves new minds and hearts. Why do you Israelites want to die?

I will give you a new heart and a new mind. I will take away your stubborn heart of stone and give you an obedient heart.

Anyone who is joined to Christ is a new being; the old is gone, the new has come.

It does not matter at all whether or not one is circumcised; what does matter is being a new creature.

God has made us what we are, and in our union with Christ Jesus he has created us for a life of good deeds, which he has already prepared for us to do.

He abolished the Jewish Law with its commandments and rules, in order to create out of the two races one new people in union with himself, in this way making peace.

and you must put on the new self, which is created in God's likeness and reveals itself in the true life that is upright and holy.

Then the one who sits on the throne said, "And now I make all things new!" He also said to me, "Write this, because these words are true and can be trusted."

Create a pure heart in me, O God, and put a new and loyal spirit in me.

Do not conform yourselves to the standards of this world, but let God transform you inwardly by a complete change of your mind. Then you will be able to know the will of God---what is good and is pleasing to him and is perfect.

Your hearts and minds must be made completely new,

And then they abandoned their faith! It is impossible to bring them back to repent again, because they are again crucifying the Son of God and exposing him to public shame.

And eternal life means to know you, the only true God, and to know Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

All of us, then, reflect the glory of the Lord with uncovered faces; and that same glory, coming from the Lord, who is the Spirit, transforms us into his likeness in an ever greater degree of glory.

The God who said, "Out of darkness the light shall shine!" is the same God who made his light shine in our hearts, to bring us the knowledge of God's glory shining in the face of Christ.

If we obey God's commands, then we are sure that we know him.

But if we obey his word, we are the ones whose love for God has really been made perfect. This is how we can be sure that we are in union with God:

Then God said, "And now we will make human beings; they will be like us and resemble us. They will have power over the fish, the birds, and all animals, domestic and wild, large and small."

So God created human beings, making them to be like himself. He created them male and female,

God has made us what we are, and in our union with Christ Jesus he has created us for a life of good deeds, which he has already prepared for us to do.

Your hearts and minds must be made completely new,

and you must put on the new self, which is created in God's likeness and reveals itself in the true life that is upright and holy.

Be obedient to God, and do not allow your lives to be shaped by those desires you had when you were still ignorant.

Instead, be holy in all that you do, just as God who called you is holy.