2 Corinthians 5:17 – If Any Man Be in Christ, He Is a New Creature | KJV
Week 4 · Day 23-4 · 2 Timothy 2:15 KJV “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” — 2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV The language of Second Corinthians 5:17 is the language of creation, not renovation. Paul does not say that the person in Christ has been improved, upgraded, or reformed. He says that person is a new creature — a new category of being that did not previously exist. The Greek word for 'new' in this verse is kainos — meaning new in quality, new in kind, not merely new in time. This distinguishes it from neos, which simply means recent. The person in Christ is new in quality — a different kind of being than the unregenerate person, belonging to a different order. This is not the language of self-improvement programs, therapeutic models, or moral reformation. It is the language of new creation — the same creative power that spoke the universe into existence applied to the soul ...