God calls believers "newborn babes" (1 Peter 2:2); "new creatures" (Galatians 6:15; 2 Cor. 5:17); a "new lump" (1 Corinthians 5:7); a "new man" (Ephesians 2:15); doers of a "new commandment" (1 John 2:8); heirs of "a new name" and a "new city" (Revelation 2:17; 3:12); expectants of "new heavens and a new earth" (2 Peter 3:13). This new being, having begun in a new birth, unfolds itself in "newness of spirit" (Romans 7:6); according to a "new covenant" (Hebrews 8:8); walks along a "new and living way" (Heb. 10:20); and ends in the "new song" and the "new Jerusalem" (Rev. 5:9; 21:2).

—Horatius Bonar