Vida nova
Em Cristo, toda pessoa é transformada em uma nova criação. O velho passa e tudo se faz novo. A vida nova é o resultado da obra redentora de Jesus em nosso coração.
Morte e ressurreição com Cristo
O batismo simboliza nossa morte para o pecado e ressurreição para uma nova vida. Fomos sepultados com Cristo e ressuscitamos com Ele.
Whether, brethren, ye know not, that whichever we be baptized in Christ Jesus, we be baptized in his death?
For we be together buried with him by baptism into death; that as Christ arose from death by the glory of the Father, so walk we in a newness of life.
For if we planted together be made to the likeness of his death, also we shall be of the likeness of his rising again;
witting this thing, that our old man is crucified together, that the body of sin be destroyed, that we serve no more to sin.
For he that is dead [to sin], is justified from sin.
So ye deem yourselves to be dead to sin, but living to God in Jesus Christ our Lord.
Nova criação
Quando aceitamos Jesus, nascemos de novo. A velha natureza dá lugar a uma identidade renovada pelo Espírito Santo.
Therefore if any new creature is in Christ, the old things be passed. Lo! all things be made new,
and I am fixed to the cross, that I live to God with Christ. And now live not I, but Christ liveth in me. But that I live now in flesh, I live in the faith of God’s Son, that loved me, and gave himself for me. [with Christ I am fixed to the cross. Forsooth I live now, not I, but Christ liveth in me. Forsooth that I live now in flesh, I live in the faith of God’s son, the which loved me, and betook himself for me.]
where is not male and female, heathen man and Jew, circumcision and prepuce, barbarous and Scythian, bondman and free, but all things and in all things Christ.
Despir o velho, vestir o novo
A vida nova se manifesta em abandonar os velhos hábitos e revestir-se do novo homem, criado segundo a vontade de Deus.
Do ye away by the old living [or after the first living], the old man, that is corrupt by the desires of error;
and be ye renewed [or made new again] in the spirit of your soul;
and clothe ye the new man, which is made after God in rightwiseness and holiness of truth.
But now put ye away all things, wrath, indignation, malice, blasphemy and foul words of your mouth.
Do not ye lie, [or gab], together; despoil ye you from the old man with his deeds,
and clothe ye the new man, that is made new again into the knowing of God, after the image of him that made him;
If we acknowledge our sins, he is faithful and just, that he forgive to us our sins, and cleanse us from all wickedness.
Renovação interior
Deus promete dar um coração novo e um espírito novo. A transformação nasce do arrependimento e da purificação divina.
God, make thou a clean heart in me; and make thou new a rightful spirit in my entrails.
Cast thou me not away from thy face; and take thou not away from me thine holy spirit.
Give thou to me the gladness of thine health; and confirm thou me with the principal spirit.
And I shall pour out clean water [up] on you, and ye shall be cleansed from all your filths; and I shall cleanse you from all your idols.
And I shall give to you a new heart, and I shall set a new spirit in the midst of you; and I shall do away an heart of stone from your flesh, and I shall give to you an heart of flesh,
and I shall set my spirit in the midst of you. And I shall make that ye go in my commandments, and [that ye] keep and work my dooms.
in which also we all lived sometime in the desires of our flesh, doing the wills of the flesh and of the thoughts, and we were by kind the sons of wrath, as other men;
but God, that is rich in mercy, for his full much charity in which he loved us,
yea, when we were dead in sins, quickened us together in Christ, by whose grace ye be saved,