Put off and Put on

3 Step Process

1.Dealing with the inward change.

2.Putting off the old self.

Dying to self is a daily process not just a one time event.

Renew the spirit of their minds.

3.Putting on the new self.

It is not enough to simply just take off the old self but this should make way for the putting on of the new self.

English Standard Version Chapter 12

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 1.1: The Confessions and Letters of St. Augustin with a Sketch of His Life and Work Chapter XXII

not now after your kind, as if following your neighbour who went before you, nor as if living after the example of a better man (for Thou hast not said, “Let man be made after his kind,” but, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness”), that we may prove what Thy will is. For to this purpose said that dispenser of Thine,—begetting children by the gospel,2—that he might not always have them “babes,” whom he would feed on milk, and cherish as a nurse;