2 Corinthians 5:17
Good News Translation
Anyone who is joined to Christ is a new being; the old is gone, the new has come.

New Revised Standard Version
So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new!

Contemporary English Version
Anyone who belongs to Christ is a new person. The past is forgotten, and everything is new.

New American Bible
So whoever is in Christ is a new creation: the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If then any be in Christ a new creature, the old things are passed away. Behold all things are made new.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If then any be in Christ a new creature, the old things are passed away. Behold all things are made new.

be.

2 Corinthians 5:19,21 For God indeed was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not imputing to them their sins. And he hath placed in us the word of reconciliation. . . .

2 Corinthians 12:2 I know a man in Christ: above fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I know not, or out of the body, I know not: God knoweth), such a one caught up to the third heaven.

Isaiah 45:17,24,25 Israel is saved in the Lord with an eternal salvation: you shall not be confounded, and you shall not be ashamed for ever and ever. . . .

John 14:20 In that day you shall know that I am in my Father: and you in me, and I in you.

John 15:2,5 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he will take away: and every one that beareth fruit, he will purge it, that it may bring forth more fruit. . . .

John 17:23 I in them, and thou in me: that they may be made perfect in one: and the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them, as thou hast also loved me.

Romans 8:1,9 There is now therefore no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh. . . .

Romans 16:7,11 Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and fellow prisoners: who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me. . . .

1 Corinthians 1:30 But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom and justice and sanctification and redemption:

Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek: there is neither bond nor free: there is neither male nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision: but faith that worketh by Charity.

Ephesians 1:3,4 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with spiritual blessings in heavenly places, in Christ: . . .

Philippians 4:21 Salute ye every saint in Christ Jesus.

he is.

Psalm 51:10 Create a clean heart in me, O God: and renew a right spirit within my bowels.

Ezekiel 11:19 And I will give them one heart, and will put a new spirit in their bowels: and I will take away the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh:

Ezekiel 18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which you have transgressed, and make to yourselves a new heart, and a new spirit: and why will you die, O house of Israel?

Ezekiel 36:26 And I will give you a new heart, and put a new spirit within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and will give you a heart of flesh.

Matthew 12:33 Either make the tree good and its fruit good: or make the tree evil, and its fruit evil. For by the fruit the tree is known.

John 3:3,5 Jesus answered and said to him: Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. . . .

Galatians 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision: but a new creature.

Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus in good works, which God hath prepared that we should walk in them.

old.

2 Corinthians 5:16 Wherefore henceforth, we know no man according to the flesh. And if we have known Christ according to the flesh: but now we know him so no longer.

Isaiah 43:18,19 Remember not former things, and look not on things of old. . . .

Isaiah 65:17,18 For behold I create new heavens, and a new earth: and the former things shall not be in remembrance, and they shall not come upon the heart. . . .

Matthew 9:16,17 And nobody putteth a piece of raw cloth unto an old garment. For it taketh away the fulness thereof from the garment, and there is made a greater rent. . . .

Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass: but my words shall not pass.

Romans 6:4-6 For we are buried together with him by baptism into death: that, as Christ is risen from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also may walk in newness of life. . . .

Romans 7:6 But now we are loosed from the law of death wherein we were detained; so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

Romans 8:9 But you are not in the flesh, but the spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

Romans 8:10 And if Christ be in you, the body indeed is dead, because of sin: but the spirit liveth, because of justification.

1 Corinthians 13:11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But, when I became a man, I put away the things of a child.

Ephesians 2:15 Making void the law of commandments contained in decrees: that he might make the two in himself into one new man, making peace

Ephesians 4:22-24 To put off, according to former conversation, the old man, who is corrupted according to the desire of error. . . .

Philippians 3:7-9 But the things that were gain to me, the same I have counted loss for Christ. . . .

Colossians 3:1-10 Therefore if you be risen with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God. . . .

Hebrews 8:9-13 Not according to the testament which I made to their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt: because they continued not in my testament: and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. . . .

2 Peter 3:10-13 But the day of the Lord shall come as a thief, in which the heavens shall pass away with great violence and the elements shall be melted with heat and the earth and the works which are in it shall be burnt up. . . .

Revelation 21:1-5 I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth was gone: and the sea is now no more. . . .

Context
Ambassadors for Christ
16Wherefore henceforth, we know no man according to the flesh. And if we have known Christ according to the flesh: but now we know him so no longer. 17If then any be in Christ a new creature, the old things are passed away. Behold all things are made new. 18But all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Christ and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation.…
Cross References
Isaiah 43:18
Remember not former things, and look not on things of old.

Isaiah 43:19
Behold I do new things, and now they shall spring forth, verily you shall know them: I will make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

Isaiah 65:17
For behold I create new heavens, and a new earth: and the former things shall not be in remembrance, and they shall not come upon the heart.

Ezekiel 36:26
And I will give you a new heart, and put a new spirit within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and will give you a heart of flesh.

John 3:3
Jesus answered and said to him: Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

Romans 6:4
For we are buried together with him by baptism into death: that, as Christ is risen from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also may walk in newness of life.

Romans 16:3
Salute Prisca and Aquila, my helpers, in Christ Jesus

Romans 16:7
Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and fellow prisoners: who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.

Romans 16:9
Salute Urbanus, our helper in Christ Jesus and Stachys, my beloved.

Romans 16:10
Salute Apellas, approved in Christ.

Galatians 6:15
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision: but a new creature.

Ephesians 4:24
And put on the new man, who according to God is created in justice and holiness of truth.

Hebrews 8:13
Now in saying a new, he hath made the former old. And that which decayeth and groweth old is near its end.

Revelation 21:4
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes: and death shall be no more. Nor mourning, nor crying, nor sorrow shall be any more, for the former things are passed away.

Revelation 21:5
And he that sat on the throne, said: Behold, I make all things new. And he said to me: Write. For these words are most faithful and true.

2 Corinthians 5:16
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