First Love and Born Again

2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV 1900

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Galatians 5:17 KJV 1900

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

John 3:3 KJV 1900

Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

John 3:7 KJV 1900

Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

1 Peter 1:23 KJV 1900

Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

The New Creation.

A Christian is a “new (kainos) creation (κτίσις, ktisis)” (2 Cor 5:17; Gal 5:17); the phrase can also be translated “new creature.”

Similarly, a Christian is to take off the old human being, to be renewed (ἀνανεόω, ananeoō) in mind, and to put on the new (kainos) human being.(ἄνθρωπος.