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Ephesians 4:24

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You were taught to start living a new life. It is created to be truly good and holy, just as God is.

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Here is the written story of Adam’s family line. When God created human beings, he made them to be like him.

I put on a godly life as if it were my clothes. Fairness was my robe and my turban.

Wake up! Zion, wake up! Dress yourself with strength as if it were your clothes. Holy city of Jerusalem, put on your clothes of glory. Those who haven’t been circumcised will never enter you again. Neither will those who are “unclean.”

He will put the armor of holiness on his chest. He’ll put the helmet of salvation on his head. He’ll pay people back for the wrong things they do. He’ll wrap himself in anger as if it were a coat.

He wants us to be holy and godly as long as we live.

Use the truth to make them holy. Your word is truth.

Don’t live the way this world lives. Let your way of thinking be completely changed. Then you will be able to test what God wants for you. And you will agree that what he wants is right. His plan is good and pleasing and perfect.

The dark night of evil is nearly over. The day of Christ’s return is almost here. So let us get rid of the works of darkness that harm us. Let us do the works of light that protect us.

Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ as if he were your clothing. Don’t think about how to satisfy sinful desires.

By being baptized, we were buried with Christ into his death. Christ has been raised from the dead by the Father’s glory. And like Christ we also can live a new life.

But now we have died to what used to control us. We have been set free from the law. Now we serve in the new way of the Holy Spirit. We no longer serve in the old way of the written law.

God planned that those he had chosen would become like his Son. In that way, Christ will be the first and most honored among many brothers and sisters.

Our natural bodies don’t last forever. They must be dressed with what does last forever. What dies must be dressed with what does not die.

None of our faces are covered with a veil. All of us can see the Lord’s glory and think deeply about it. So we are being changed to become more like him so that we have more and more glory. And this glory comes from the Lord, who is the Holy Spirit.

We don’t give up. Our bodies are becoming weaker and weaker. But our spirits are being renewed day by day.

When anyone lives in Christ, the new creation has come. The old is gone! The new is here!

This is because all of you who were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. You have put him on as if he were your clothes.

Circumcision and uncircumcision don’t mean anything. What really counts is that the new creation has come.

We are God’s creation. He created us to belong to Christ Jesus. Now we can do good works. Long ago God prepared these works for us to do.

Through his body on the cross, Christ set aside the law with all its commands and rules. He planned to create one new people out of Jews and Gentiles. He wanted to make peace between them.

Put on all of God’s armor. Then you can remain strong against the devil’s evil plans.

He gave himself for us. By doing that, he set us free from all evil. He wanted to make us pure. He wanted us to be his very own people. He wanted us to desire to do what is good.

But here is what he says about the Son. “You are God. Your throne will last for ever and ever. Your kingdom will be ruled by justice.

Try your best to live in peace with everyone. Try hard to be holy. Without holiness no one will see the Lord.

Like newborn babies, you should long for the pure milk of God’s word. It will help you grow up as believers.

He has also given us his very great and valuable promises. He did it so you could share in his nature. You can share in it because you’ve escaped from the evil in the world. This evil is caused by sinful desires.




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