Nova Criatura

9 Do not tell lies to one another. You have stopped being the person you used to be who did wrong things.

10 And now you have become a new person. That new person is always learning more and more until he becomes like God who made him.

5 The One who sat on the throne said, Look, I make all things new. And he said, Write this, because these words can be trusted. they are true.

4 We were buried when he was buried because we were baptised into his death. Christ was raised from death by the wonderful power of the Father. So we also must live a new life.

5 Have we shared with Christ and died as he died? Then we shall share with him by rising from death as he arose.

6 We know this is true. The old person we used to be was nailed to the cross with him, so that our bodies which do wrong things would die. Then we will no longer be like slaves to the wrong things we used to do.

7 Anyone who has died no longer does wrong things.

4 Because of these things, he has promised us things that are worth very much and are very great. He has promised these things to us so that by them you may become like God too. By them you will be kept free from the selfish desires of the people in the world. These desires lead to death.

20 I died when Christ died on a cross. I do not live now, but Christ lives in me. Now while I still live in my body, I live by believing in the Son of God. He loved me and gave himself for me.

22 Stop being the person you used to be in your old life. That person was bad because he wanted to do wrong things.

23 Have a new mind and heart.

24 Be a new person. That new person has been made like God. He does what is right and holy because he knows the truth.

15 It does not matter if a person is circumcised or not, but he must become a new person.

3 Jesus said, I tell you the truth. No person can see Gods kingdom if he is not born again.

10 God has made us. In Jesus Christ God made us so that we can do good things. He planned that we should live that way.

17 But it is God who has done all this. He sent Christ to make peace with us and to bring us back to himself. Now he has given us the work of bringing other people back to God.