Quotes About Transformation

and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.

Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.

And you became imitators of us and of the Lord when you welcomed the message with the joy of the Holy Spirit, in spite of your great suffering.

For they themselves report what kind of welcome you gave us, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God

so that the name of our Lord Jesus will be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and of the Lord Jesus Christ.

I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man; yet because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief, I was shown mercy.

This is the Spirit He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,

I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whose father I became while I was in chains.

Formerly he was useless to you, but now he has become useful both to you and to me.

no longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a beloved brother. He is especially beloved to me, but even more so to you, both in person and in the Lord.

It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit,

For when the priesthood is changed, the law must be changed as well.

So the former commandment is set aside because it was weak and useless

For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.

By speaking of a new covenant, He has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.

They consist only in food and drink and special washings—external regulations imposed until the time of reform.

Then He adds, “Here I am, I have come to do Your will.” He takes away the first to establish the second.

“This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts and inscribe them on their minds.”

by the new and living way opened for us through the curtain of His body,

At that time His voice shook the earth, but now He has promised, “Once more I will shake not only the earth, but heaven as well.”

“For our God is a consuming fire.”

Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save your souls.

So too, faith by itself, if it does not result in action, is dead.

You see that his faith was working with his actions, and his faith was perfected by what he did.