Ephesians 4:24 (WEB)
and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
Catechism · 2
The Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation
“He should strive by works of mercy and charity, as well as by prayer and the various practices of penance, to put off completely the "old man" and to put on the "new man."” — Catechism footnote: Eph 4:22, 24.
The Eighth Commandment
“Christ's disciples have "put on the new man, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness."” — Catechism footnote: Eph 4:24.
Fathers and councils · 25
Gregory of Nyssa
“For the nature of flesh is created: and by partaking in it in all points like as we do, yet without sin, He was created when He became man: and He was created “after God,” not after man, as the Apostle says, in a new manner and not according to human wont.” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 24.
Read the whole comment“And this view, that the sense of “created me” has reference to the Humanity, the divine apostle more clearly sets before us by his own words when he charges us, “Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ,” and also where (using the same word) he says, “Put on the new man which after God is created.”” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 24.
Read the whole comment“…any trace of that which has waxed old, saying, “Having put off the old man with his deeds and his lusts, put on the new man which is created according to God,” and “If any man be in Christ,” he says, “he is a new creature: the old things are passed away, behold all things are become new:”) —for the maker of human…” — editor's note: Cf. Col. iii. 9, and Eph. iv. 24.
Read the whole comment“For having by purity brought into closest relationship with the Father of our nature that new man which is created after God, in Whom dwelt all the fulness of the Godhead bodily, He drew with Him into the same grace all the nature that partakes of His body and is akin to Him.” — editor's note: Cf. Eph. iv. 24
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“But ‘we did not so learn Christ, if so be that we heard’ Him, and were taught from Him, ‘putting off the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,’ and taking up ‘the new, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.’” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 20–24
Read the whole comment“Putting off the old man and his deeds, let us put on the new man, which is created in God,’ in humbleness of mind, and a pure conscience; in meditation of the law by night and by day.” — editor's note: Luke xii. 40; 1 Cor. v. 8; Ephes. iv. 22–24.
Read the whole comment“But the wise servants of the Lord, who have truly put on the man which is created in God, have received gospel words, and reckon as a general commandment that given to Timothy, which saith, ‘Be thou an example to the believers in word, in conversation, in love, in faith, in purity.’” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 24.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…called the old man and the latter the new; but the new is born of the old, since spiritual regeneration is begun by a change of an earthy, and worldly life; and therefore the latter is called son of man.” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 22, 24.
Read the whole comment“As though to conquered Jebusites, in order that there may be builded up Jerusalem, is said, “Put ye off the old man, and put on the new.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 9, 10; Eph. iv. 22, 24.
Read the whole comment“All who believe in Christ, who put off the old man, and put on the new, are a new creature.” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 22–24.
Read the whole comment“For, giving the same admonition, he thus saith in another place: “As is the truth in Jesus, that ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, him which is corrupt according to the lust of deception; but be ye renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new man, him which after God is created.”” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 21–24. [See R.V.]
Read the whole comment“For that is done inwardly of which the same apostle speaks: “Put off the old man, and put on the new;” which he goes on to explain by saying, “Wherefore, putting away lying, speak every man truth.”” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 22–25
Read the whole comment“But further, does not the same blessed apostle say, “Be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new man, which is created after God;” and in another place more clearly, “Putting off the old man,” he says, “with his deeds; put on the new man, which is renewed to the knowledge of God after the…” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 23, 24
Read the whole comment“He says again elsewhere: “Be ye renewed in the spirit of your mind; and put ye on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.”” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 23, 24
Read the whole comment“And the Apostle Paul saith to thee, “Put ye off the old man with his deeds, and put ye on the new man.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 9; Eph. iv. 22–24.
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Ambrose of Milan
“And so the Apostle says again: “But be ye renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new man which is created according to God in truth and righteousness and holiness.”” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 23, 24.
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Tertullian
“…the deceitful lusts; and to be renewed in the spirit of our mind; and to put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness,” (they maintain) that by here also making a distinction between the two substances, and applying the old one to the flesh and the new one to the spirit, he…” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 22–24.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“However, be ye renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put ye on that new man, which is created according to God.” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 21–24.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…Who demands of us, us His only sacrifice, purification—that is, a contrite heart and the sacrifice of praise, and a new creation in Christ, and the new man, and the like, as the Scripture loves to call it.” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 24.
Read the whole comment“IV. This is our present Festival; it is this which we are celebrating to-day, the Coming of God to Man, that we might go forth, or rather (for this is the more proper expression) that we might go back to God—that putting off the old man, we might put on the New; and that as we died in…” — editor's note: Ephes. iv. 22, 24.
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Clement of Alexandria
“…renewed (not by dyeings and ornaments), but in the spirit of your mind; and put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.”” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 20–24.
Read the whole comment“Renovamini autem spiritu mentis vestræ, et induatis novum hominem, qui creatus est secundum Deum in justitia et sanctitate veritatis,” ad Dei similitudinem.” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 20–24.
Read the whole comment“Let him that stole, steal no more; but rather let him labour, working that which is good” (and to work is to labour in seeking the truth; for it is accompanied with rational well-doing), “that ye may have to give to him that has need,” both of worldly wealth and of divine wisdom.” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 24, 25, 27–29.
Read the whole comment“For “to bring themselves into captivity,” and to slay themselves, putting to death “the old man, who is through lusts corrupt,” and raising the new man from death, “from the old conversation,” by abandoning the passions, and becoming free of sin, both the Gospel and the apostle enjoin.” — editor's note: Rom. vi. 6, 7; 2 Cor. x. 5; Eph. iv. 22–24; Col. iii. 8, 9, etc.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“But be ye renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new man, him who according to God is ordained in righteousness, and holiness, and truth.”” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 22–24.
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Cross-references · 21
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VII.3 and 2 other places.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XII.7 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 14.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 14.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.18.
Cited together in Catechism §2475.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 45.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XIV.16.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XIV.16.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VII.3.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.18.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.18.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.18.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.18.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.18.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XII.7.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XIV.16.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XII.7.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XII.7 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XII.7 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 45.