John 3:6

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John 3:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible

4 “How can a man be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time to be born?”

5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.

6 Flesh is born of flesh, but spirit is born of the Spirit.

7 Do not be amazed that I said, ‘You must be born again.’

8 The wind blows where it wishes. You hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”

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Genesis 5:3

When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son in his own likeness, after his own image; and he named him Seth.

Genesis 6:5

Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.

Genesis 6:12

And God looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had corrupted their ways.

Job 14:4

Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!

Job 15:14

What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

Job 15:15

If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes,

Job 15:16

how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?

Job 25:4

How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

Psalms 51:10

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

Romans 7:5

For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.

Romans 7:18

I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.

Romans 7:25

Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

Romans 8:1

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Romans 8:4

so that the righteous standard of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

Romans 8:5

Those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh; but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.

Romans 8:6

The mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace,

Romans 8:7

because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.

Romans 8:8

Those controlled by the flesh cannot please God.

Romans 8:9

You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.

Romans 8:13

For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

1 Corinthians 15:47

The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven.

1 Corinthians 15:48

As was the earthly man, so also are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven.

1 Corinthians 15:49

And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so also shall we bear the likeness of the heavenly man.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!

Galatians 5:16

So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want.

Galatians 5:18

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

Galatians 5:19

The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;

Galatians 5:20

idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions,

Galatians 5:21

and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Galatians 5:24

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Ephesians 2:3

All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.

Colossians 2:11

In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of your sinful nature, with the circumcision performed by Christ and not by human hands.

Ezekiel 11:19

And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh,

Ezekiel 11:20

so that they may follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.

Ezekiel 36:26

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

Ezekiel 36:27

And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.

1 Corinthians 6:17

But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit.

1 John 3:9

Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.