10And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
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And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; …
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-11)As we are to mortify inordinate appetites, so we are to mortify inordinate passions (Col. 3:8): But now you also put off all these, anger wrath, malice ; for these are contrary to the design of the gospel, as well as grosser impurities; and, though they are more spiritual wickedness, have not less malignity in them. The gospel religion introduces a change of the higher as well as the lower powers…
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