1. “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”

2. “To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.”

3. “We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.’”

4. “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”