Person (11) Put Offs Put Ons

The New Testament lists various attitudes, motives and behaviour that we should “put off” and a matching list that we should “put on”. Our goal is to build the Put Ons into our character.

Attitudes
Put Offs	Put Ons
Gal 5:19-20
Sinful nature	Fruit of the Spirit
Hatred contention jealousy selfish ambition envy conceited	Patience kindness faithfulness gentleness self-control peace love
Eph 4
Hardened hearts covetousness ignorance bitterness malice greed	Compassion honest forgiving kindness tender righteous
Col 3
Malice anger range lust greed covetousness lying	Compassion kindness humility gentleness meekness patience forgiving thankful (Love binds all these together)
James 3 13f
Envy selfish selfish ambition	Thankful pure peace-loving considerate gentle submissive merciful impartial sincere
1 Tim 3
Maliciousness conceit	Temperate controlled gentle
Heb 6:12	Heb 4:11
Lazy	Diligence

Many of these attitudes are fruit of the Spirit. We can change our attitudes by rejecting the negative ones and deciding on the positive ones, but that will only take us so far. If we let the Holy Spirit work in our lives that better attitudes will emerge more easily and gradually become part of who we are.

The Holy Spirit judges thoughts and attitudes of the heart (Heb 4:12).