John 3:7

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John 3:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible

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.”

9 “How can this be?” Nicodemus asked.

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Matthew 13:34

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All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”

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“Their feet are swift to shed blood;

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ruin and misery lie in their wake,

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and the way of peace they have not known.”

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Romans 9:22

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Romans 9:23

What if He did this to make the riches of His glory known to the vessels of His mercy, whom He prepared in advance for glory—

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including us, whom He has called not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?

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As He says in Hosea: “I will call them ‘My People’ who are not My people, and I will call her ‘My Beloved’ who is not My beloved,”

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Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.

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to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;

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to be renewed in the spirit of your minds;

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and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

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giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light.

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Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.

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1 Peter 1:15

But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do,

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for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”

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But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.