Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
If then any be in Christ The sense seems to be, if by believing in Christ we are become as it were new creatures, rescued by his grace and his Spirit, the old things are passed away, we must renounce all former carnal affections, all sin and all errors in which either Jews or Gentiles lived.
Behold all things are made new: the New Testament succeeds to the Old, the law and doctrine of Christ to the law of Moses, the Christian Church to the Jewish Synagogue, truth and grace to types and figures (Witham)
With the renovated Christian all his thoughts, sentiments, inclinations, and actions, are new.
