1 Corinthians 13:11

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;

For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace,

He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” He said, “Write, for these words of God are faithful and true.”

Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs out now. Don’t you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.

“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.

In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.

For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

In that he says, “A new covenant”, he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.

We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.

Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me greet you.

Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?

“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.”

I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don’t know, or whether out of the body, I don’t know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven.

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them;”

and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

“Hear my words, you wise men. Give ear to me, you who have knowledge.

For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

My eyes fail looking for your salvation, for your righteous word.

“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.”

Jesus summoned them, saying, “Allow the little children to come to me, and don’t hinder them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Jesus said to him, “Someone who has bathed only needs to have his feet washed, but is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you.”

Greet Andronicus and Junia, my relatives and my fellow prisoners, who are notable among the apostles, who were also in Christ before me.

We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.

However, the son by the servant was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.

But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.

until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’ ”

Instead of the thorn the cypress tree will come up; and instead of the brier the myrtle tree will come up. It will make a name for Yahweh, for an everlasting sign that will not be cut off.”

But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all,

Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.