Wednesday - Verse of the Day

The New Man

17 This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should (Eph. 2:2; 4:22) no longer walk as (NU omits the rest of) the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, 

18 having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the (Rom. 1:21) blindness of their heart; 

19 (1 Tim. 4:2) who, being past feeling, (1 Pet. 4:3) have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

20 But you have not so learned Christ, 

21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: 

22 that you (Col. 3:8) put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, 

23 and [Rom. 12:2; Col. 3:10] be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 

24 and that you [Rom. 6:4; 7:6; 12:2; 2 Cor. 5:17; Col. 3:10] put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

 The New King James Version. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982. Print.