15 Bible Verses About Putting Off the Old Self
15 Bible verses about Putting Off the Old Self to read, reflect on, and commit to memory.
You were taught to strip off the old self, the self of your former way of life, which is being ruined by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the spirit of your minds; and to put on the new self, created in God’s likeness, in the righteousness and holiness that come from the truth.
Do not lie to one another. You have stripped off the old self and its ways and have put on the new self, which is being made new, growing in knowledge, in the image of its Creator.
So through baptism we were buried with him into death, in order that, as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live a life that is new.
I am no longer the one who lives; Christ lives in me. Whatever life I still have in the flesh is a life lived by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and handed himself over for my sake.
So if anyone is in Christ, that person is part of a new creation. The old things have gone, and look, new things have come into being.
We know this: our old self was nailed to the cross with him, so that the body of sin would be stripped of its power and we would no longer serve sin as slaves.
Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ like clothing, and do not make plans to satisfy the desires of the flesh.
So put to death whatever in you belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.
You are God’s chosen people, holy and loved by him. So put on, like clothing, a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
So now that you have stripped off falsehood, each of you must tell your neighbor the truth, for we are members of one another.
Those who belong to Christ have nailed the flesh to the cross, together with its passions and desires.
So rid yourselves of all malice and every kind of deceit, of pretending and envy and all slander.
Do not let this present age press you into its mold, but be changed through and through as your mind is made new. Then you will be able to test and recognize the will of God: what is good and pleasing and perfect.
So then, since we too have so vast a cloud of witnesses all around us, let us strip off every burden, and the sin that wraps itself around us so readily, and let us run the race laid out ahead of us, and run it with endurance.
I will give you a new heart, and I will place a new spirit within you. I will take the heart of stone out of your bodies and give you a heart of flesh.