Ephesians 4:24
and to put on the new man according to God, the man who was created in righteousness and piety of the truth.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
In Context
23and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
Cross References
Genesis 1:26And God said, Let us make man in our image--after our likeness--and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that
Psalms 45:6Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever. A scepter of straightness is the scepter of thy kingdom.
Isaiah 59:17And he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head. And he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.
Romans 6:4We were buried therefore with him through the immersion into death, so that as Christ was raised up from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we may walk in newness of life.
Romans 13:12The night has advanced and the day has approached. Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the weapons of light.
1 Corinthians 15:53For this perishable must put on imperishability, and this mortal put on immortality.
Matthew Henry on Ephesians 4:18-32
Exhortation to Purity and Holiness; Cautions against Sin; Against Grieving the Spirit. ( a. d. 61.) 17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, 18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: 19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. 20 But ye have not… Read the whole commentary →