Ephesians 4:23

that the very spirit of your minds must be constantly renewed;

Twentieth Century New Testament

In The King James Version

And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

In Context

22For you learned with regard to your former way of living that you must cast off your old nature, which, yielding to deluding passions, grows corrupt;

24and that you must clothe yourselves in that new nature which was created to resemble God, with the righteousness and holiness springing from the Truth.

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Cross References

Romans 8:6To be earthly-minded means Death, to be spiritually minded means Life and Peace;

Ephesians 2:10For we are God’s handiwork, created, by our union with Christ Jesus, for the good actions in doing which God had pre-arranged that we should spend our lives.

Titus 3:5not as the result of any righteous actions that we had done, but in fulfilment of his merciful purposes. He saved us by that Washing which was a New Birth to us, and by the renewing power of the Holy Spirit,

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 →

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