Nova criatura
Em Cristo somos nova criação. O velho se foi, tudo se fez novo. A transformação não é reforma — é renascimento completo pelo poder do Espírito Santo.
Novas criaturas em Cristo
Se alguém está em Cristo, nova criação é. As coisas velhas passaram e eis que tudo se fez novo. A transformação é radical e total.
17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, new things have come.
15 For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
5 He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." He said, "Write, for these words are faithful and true."
Despir o velho e vestir o novo
Somos chamados a despir o velho homem e vestir o novo, criado segundo Deus em justiça e santidade provenientes da verdade.
22 that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,24 and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,10 and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.7 For he who has died has been freed from sin.
20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
Coração e Espírito novos
Deus promete dar um coração novo e um espírito novo. Pelo novo nascimento somos feitos participantes da natureza divina.
19 I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;20 that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
3 Jesus answered him, "Truly, truly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he cannot see the Kingdom of God."
4 by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.
18 "Do not remember the former things,and do not consider the things of old.19 Behold, I will do a new thing.It springs forth now.Do you not know it?I will even make a way in the wilderness,and rivers in the desert.