Colossians 3:10
And putting on the new, him who is renewed unto knowledge, according to the image of him that created him.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
In Context
9Lie not one to another: stripping yourselves of the old man with his deeds,
Cross References
Genesis 1:26And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth.
Psalms 51:10To my hearing thou shalt give joy and gladness: and the bones that have been humbled shall rejoice.
Isaiah 59:17He put on justice as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head: he put on the garments of vengeance, and was clad with zeal as with a cloak.
Ezekiel 18:31Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which you have transgressed, and make to yourselves a new heart, and a new spirit: and why will you die, O house of Israel?
John 17:3Now this is eternal life: That they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
Romans 12:2And be not conformed to this world; but be reformed in the newness of your mind, that you may prove what is the good, and the acceptable, and the perfect will of God.
Matthew Henry on Colossians 3:9-12
Necessity of Mortifying Sin. ( a. d. 62.) 8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. 9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; 10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: 11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all. As we are to mortify inordinate… Read the whole commentary →