17Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; …
Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. …
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-21)In these verses the apostle mentions two things that are necessary in order to our living to Christ, both of which are the consequences of Christ’s dying for us; namely, regeneration and reconciliation. I. Regeneration, which consists of two things; namely, 1. Weanedness from the world: “ Henceforth we know no man after the flesh , 2 Cor. 5:16. We do not own nor affect any person or thing in this…
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