John 3:6

A Meeting With Nicodemus

⁵ Jesus responded: I tell you truth, except a man be born of water and the spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God! ⁶ That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. ⁷ Do not marvel that I say you must be born again.

Born of the Flesh

Born of the Spirit

Holy Spirit

Of the Flesh

John

Genesis 6:12

God saw how corrupt the earth had become. All the people on earth had corrupted their ways.

Job 14:4

Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one!

Job 25:4

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

Ezekiel 36:26-27

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you. I will remove your stubborn hearts and give you obedient hearts.

Romans 8:4-9

God did this so that the righteous requirements of the Law might be fully satisfied in us who live according to the Spirit, and not according to human nature.

Galatians 5:16-21

I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Genesis 5:3

When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.

Genesis 6:5

Jehovah saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become. Every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.

Job 15:14-16

What is man, that he could be pure? Or he who is born of woman, that he could be righteous?

Psalm 51:10

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast (dependable) spirit within me.

Ezekiel 11:19-20

I will give them one (united) heart, and put a new spirit within them. I will take the heart of stone (unkind attitude) out of them and give them a heart of flesh (loving disposition).

John 1:13

They were born from God. It was not from blood, or the will of the flesh, or the will of man.

Romans 7:5

When we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

Romans 7:18

I know that good does not live in my human nature. For even though the desire to do good is in me, I am not able to do it.

Romans 7:25-1

Thanks to God, through our Lord Jesus Christ! So then I can serve God's law only with my mind, while my human nature serves the law of sin.

Romans 8:13

for if you live according to flesh, you are about to die. If by the Spirit, you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

1 Corinthians 6:17

He who is joined to the Lord is one (united with him in) spirit.

1 Corinthians 15:47-50

The first man is from the earth, earthy: the second man is from heaven.

2 Corinthians 5:17

If any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things have passed away. Behold, they have become new.

Galatians 5:24

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have impaled the flesh with its passions and lusts.

Ephesians 2:3

We all once lived in the lust of our flesh, indulging the desires (lusts) of the flesh and of the mind. We were by nature children of anger and violent passion, like everyone else.

Colossians 2:11

You were also circumcised in him with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ.

1 John 3:9

Whoever is born of God does not practice sin! His seed abides in him and he cannot sin because he has been born of God.