Colossians 3:10
and put on your new self that is always being made more like your Creator, understanding better who he really is.
Free Bible Version
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
9Don't lie to each other, since you've discarded your old self and what you used to do,
Cross References
Genesis 1:26God said, “Let us make human beings in our image who are like us. They will have authority over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over the whole of the earth and every creature that moves on it.”
Psalms 51:10Create a pure mind in me, God, and make me trustworthy again.
Isaiah 59:17He put on integrity as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head. He put on clothes of vengeance and wrapped himself with determination as a cloak.
Ezekiel 18:31Get rid of all your rebellious sins! Change your way of thinking and have a new spirit. Why do you want to die, people of Israel?
John 17:3Eternal life is this: to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you sent.
Romans 12:2Don't follow the ways of this world; instead be transformed by the spiritual renewal of your mind so you can demonstrate what God's will really is—good, pleasing, and perfect.
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 →