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27 [a]For all of you who were baptized into Christ(A) have clothed yourselves with Christ.[b]

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  1. 3:27–28 Likely a formula used at baptism that expresses racial, social-economic, and sexual equality in Christ (cf. Col 3:11).
  2. 3:27 Clothed yourselves with Christ: literally, “have put on Christ”; cf. Rom 13:14; Eph 4:24; Col 3:10. Baptismal imagery, traceable to the Old Testament (Jb 29:14; Is 59:17) but also found in pagan mystery cults.

16 (A)I say, then: live by the Spirit and you will certainly not gratify the desire of the flesh.[a]

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  1. 5:16–25 Spirit…flesh: cf. Gal 3:3 and the note on Rom 8:1–13.

24 and put on[a] the new self, created in God’s way in righteousness and holiness of truth.(A)

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  1. 4:24 Put on: in baptism. See note on Gal 3:27.

11 Put on the armor of God so that you may be able to stand firm against the tactics of the devil.(A)

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