Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. ESVUK

The change of perspective regarding people, and above all about Jesus, comes from being made new: ‘’a new creation’’. A Christian is not a patched up old person; not like a tuned up old car. He/she is a whole new person.

“To be born again is, as it were, to enter upon a new existence, to have a new mind, a new heart, new views, new principles, new tastes, new affections, new likings, new dislikings, new fears, new joys, new sorrows, new love to things once hated, new hatred to things once loved, new thoughts of God, and ourselves, and the world, and the life to come, and salvation.” J.C.Ryle

Tasker observes: ‘…Paul in the latter part of this verse is in fact saying, not only that the entire world of his experience changes for a man who is ‘in Christ’, but that because there are new men in Christ the new order of things foretold in the prophet Isaiah has now become a reality (see Is.43.18). Each man regenerated by the Spirit of God is a new creation, and a world in which such new creations exist is potentially at least a new world.’

Tim Keller puts it like this: ‘The new birth is the power that God is going to use to regenerate the world, brought into your present.’