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 any man is in Christ, [he is] a new creation: the old things are passed away; look, they have become new.
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 in advance that we should walk in them.
5 And he who sits on the throne said, Look, I make all things new. And he says, 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 manner of life, the old man, that waxes corrupt after the desires of deceit;23 and that you{} are renewed in the spirit of your{} mind,24 and put on the new man, that after God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
9 do not lie one to another; seeing that you{} have put off the old man with his activities,10 and have put on the new man, who is being renewed to knowledge after the image of him who created him:
4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death: that 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 be also [in the likeness] of his resurrection;6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be done away, it no longer to serve us as slaves to sin;7 for he who has died is justified from sin.
20 and it is no longer I who live, but Christ living in me: and that [life] which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, [the faith] which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and delivered 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 And I will give them another heart, and I will put a new spirit inside 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 will be my people, and I will be their God.
3 Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, Except one be born anew, he can't 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 that world by desire.
18 Don't remember{} the former things, neither consider the things of old.19 Look, I will do a new thing; now it will spring forth; will you{} not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and paths in the desert.