Ephesians 4:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

And that ye put on; the same metaphor of a garment as before, to show the intimateness of the new man with us, and its being an ornament to us. The new man; i.e. a new disposition or constitution of the whole man, called the new creature, 2 Corinthians 5:17, and a divine nature, 2 Peter 1:4. Which after God; after God's image. Is created in righteousness and true holiness; either righteousness may relate to the second table, and holiness to the first, and so both contain our duty to man and to God; or righteousness may imply that Divine principle in us, whereby we perform our whole duty to God and the creature, and holiness that which denieth all mixture of corruption in onr duty to God and man. True; sincere and sound. As righteousness and holiness are opposed to lusts, Ephesians 4:22, so true here, to deceitful there.