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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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
We are then truly free when God orders our lives, that is, forms and creates us not as human beings— this he has already done—but as good people, which he is now doing by his grace, that we may indeed be new creatures in Christ Jesus. Accordingly the prayer: “Create in me a clean heart, O God.”
