Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who, according to his great mercy, hath regenerated us unto a living hope, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from among the dead,

As new-born babes, for the pure milk that is for the mind, eagerly crave, that, thereby, ye may grow unto salvation: -

Whosoever hath been born of God, is not committing, sin, because, a seed of him, within him, abideth; and he cannot be committing sin, because, of God, hath he been born.

Beloved! let us be loving one another; because, love, is, of God, and, whosoever loveth, of God, hath been born, and is getting to understand God:

Whosoever believeth that, Jesus, is the Christ, of God, hath been born: and, whosoever loveth him that begat, loveth him that hath been begotten of him.

Nor of the will of the

And the sons within her struggled together, so she said - If so, wherefore now am, I, thus ? And she went to seek Yahweh.

and make for me dainty meats, such as I love and bring in to me, that I may eat, - To the end my soul may bless thee, ere yet I lie!

And, not only so, but, when, Rebekah also, was with child, of one - Isaac our father, -

Nor of the will of man

Thy people, will freely offer themselves, in the day of thine army, - in the splendours of holiness, out of the womb of the dawn, To thee, shall spring forth the dew of thy youth.

Truth, say I, in Christ, I utter no falsehood, - my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit, -

Brethren! the delight of my own heart and my supplication God-ward in their behalf, are for salvation;

I, planted, Apollos, watered, - but, God, caused to, grow.

For it is, God, who energiseth within you, both the desiring and the energising, in behalf of his good pleasure.

Because he was so minded, he hath brought us forth with a word of truth, to the end we should be a sort of firstfruit of his creatures

Of god

That which hath been born of the flesh, is, flesh, and, that which hath been born of the spirit, is, spirit.

Not by works which we had done in righteousness, but, according to his mercy, he saved us - through means of the bathing of a new birth, and the moulding anew of Holy Spirit. -

And, now, dear children, abide ye in him, in order that, if he be made manifest, we may have boldness, and not be shamed away from him by his presence.

General references

For, not even his brethren, were believing on him.

He that is of God, heareth, the sayings of God; therefore, do, ye, not hear, because, of God, ye are not.

Hence, then, it is nor of him that wisheth nor of him that runneth, but of the mercy-shewing God.

For ye, all, are, sons of God, through the faith in Christ Jesus;