2 CORINTHIANS 5:17

NEW CREATURE ALTOGETHER   

KJV ... Therefore if any man (person) be in Christ (the Anointed One and His anointing), he is a new creature; old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.  

AMP. ... If any person in in Christ (the Anointed One and His anointing), he is a new creature altogether.  The old previous moral and spiritual condition has passed away.  Behold, the fresh and new has come!  

NLT ... Anyone who belongs to Christ (Jesus) has become a new person.  The old life is gone; a new life has begun.  

THE MESSAGE ... Anyone united with the Messiah gets a fresh start, is created new.  The old life is gone; a new life burgeons! 

I had to look up the meaning of this word and it means ... "our new life is a bud or shoot that begins to grow and to send forth shoots and other new growth." 

 Reverend Robert W. & Mary C. Butler