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. NEW CREATION. "Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image and likeness…'" (From Gen 1:26 NEB). "You must be made new in mind and spirit, and put on the new nature of God's creating, which shows itself in the just and devout life called for by the truth." (Eph 4:23,24 NEB). "Consequently if anyone is in union with Christ, he is a new creation; the old things passed away, look! new things have come into existence." (2 Cor 5:17). "With us therefore worldly standards have ceased to count in our estimate of any man; even if once they counted in our understanding of Christ, they do so now no longer. When anyone is united to Christ, there is a new act of creation; the old order has gone, a new order has already begun." (Or, "When anyone is united to Christ he is a new creature: his old life is over; a new life has already begun.") (From 2 Cor 5:16,17 NEB. See Footnote). "For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to devote ourselves to the good deeds for which God has designed us." (Eph 2:10 NEB). "…to those who have yielded (The Christ) their allegiance, he gave the right to become children of God, not born of any human stock, or by the fleshly desire of a human father, but the offspring of God himself." (John 1:12,13 NEB). "Stop lying to one another, now that you have discarded the old nature with its deeds and have put on the new nature, which is being constantly renewed in the image of its Creator and brought to know God." (Col 3:9,10 NEB).
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