Ephesians 4:24
and that you must clothe yourselves in that new nature which was created to resemble God, with the righteousness and holiness springing from the truth.
Open English Bible (US)
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
23that the spirit of your minds must be constantly renewed;
Cross References
Genesis 1:26Then God said, “Let us make humans who are images of us, who are like us. Let them rule over the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the cattle, the whole earth, and all the reptiles that crawl upon the ground.”
Psalms 45:6Your throne shall endure for ever and ever your royal sceptre a sceptre of equity.
Romans 6:4Consequently, through sharing his death in our baptism, we were buried with him; so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by a manifestation of the Father’s power, so we also may live a new life.
Romans 13:12The night is almost gone; the day is near. Therefore let us be done with the deeds of darkness, and arm ourselves with the weapons of light.
1 Corinthians 15:53For this perishable body of ours must put on an imperishable form, and this dying body a deathless form.
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 →