2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!

Cross References (42)

  • Ezekiel 36:26 (452)

    I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of f

  • Ephesians 4:22–24 (387)

    to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;

  • Isaiah 43:18–19 (298)

    “Do not call to mind the former things; pay no attention to the things of old.

  • John 3:3 (235)

    Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”

  • Psalms 51:10 (217)

    Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

  • Ezekiel 11:19 (195)

    And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone and give t

  • Colossians 3:1–10 (173)

    Therefore, since you have been raised with Christ, strive for the things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand

  • Romans 8:1 (142)

    Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

  • Galatians 6:15 (133)

    For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything. What counts is a new creation.

  • Ephesians 2:10 (124)

    For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life

  • Romans 8:9–10 (108)

    You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does

  • Romans 6:4–6 (105)

    We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead thr

  • 1 Corinthians 1:30 (92)

    It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, a

  • John 15:5 (92)

    I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me

  • Ezekiel 18:31 (90)

    Cast away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed, and fashion for yourselves a new heart and a new sp

  • 2 Corinthians 5:21 (88)

    God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

  • Romans 7:6 (74)

    But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit

  • Philippians 3:7–9 (73)

    But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.

  • Ephesians 1:3–4 (68)

    Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in th

  • 2 Corinthians 5:16 (67)

    So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer

  • John 3:5 (67)

    Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit

  • Ephesians 2:15 (64)

    by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the

  • Galatians 3:28 (61)

    There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

  • John 14:20 (61)

    On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I am in you.

  • John 17:23 (60)

    I in them and You in Me—that they may be perfectly united, so that the world may know that You sent Me and have loved th

  • John 15:2 (60)

    He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even mor

  • Revelation 21:1–5 (60)

    Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.

  • Isaiah 65:17–18 (56)

    For behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to m

  • Galatians 5:6 (52)

    For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. What matters is faith expressing itself throu

  • Matthew 12:33 (51)

    Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is known by its fr

  • Matthew 9:16–17 (51)

    No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. For the patch will pull away from the garment, and a worse tear

  • Matthew 24:35 (49)

    Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.

  • 2 Corinthians 5:19 (44)

    that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committe

  • 2 Peter 3:10–13 (43)

    But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed b

  • 1 Corinthians 13:11 (41)

    When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set a

  • Isaiah 45:24–25 (38)

    Surely they will say of Me, ‘In the LORD alone are righteousness and strength.’” All who rage against Him will come to H

  • Isaiah 45:17 (38)

    But Israel will be saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation; you will not be put to shame or humiliated, to ages

  • Hebrews 8:9–13 (34)

    It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of

  • 2 Corinthians 12:2 (18)

    I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of it

  • Romans 16:7 (12)

    Greet Andronicus and Junia, my fellow countrymen and fellow prisoners. They are outstanding among the apostles, and they

  • Philippians 4:21 (11)

    Greet all the saints in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me send you greetings.

  • Romans 16:11 (5)

    Greet Herodion, my fellow countryman. Greet those from the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord.