Quotes About Transformation

So also, when we were children, we were enslaved under the basic principles of the world.

But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?

I beg you, brothers, become like me, for I became like you. You have done me no wrong.

You know that it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you.

My children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,

For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.”

Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.

A little leaven works through the whole batch of dough.

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Since we live by the Spirit, let us walk in step with the Spirit.

For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything. What counts is a new creation.

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!

And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,

Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands)—

I became a servant of this gospel by the gift of Godís grace, given me through the working of His power.

I ask that out of the riches of His glory He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being,

He who descended is the very One who ascended above all the heavens, in order to fill all things.

So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

But this is not the way you came to know Christ.

Surely you heard of Him and were taught in Him—in keeping with the truth that is in Jesus—

to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;

to be renewed in the spirit of your minds;