Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through his great mercy has given us a new birth and a living hope by the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;

Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.

My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.

Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child.

Nor of the will of the

And the children were fighting together inside her, and she said, If it is to be so, why am I like this? So she went to put her question to the Lord.

And make me food, good to the taste, such as is pleasing to me, and put it before me, so that I may have a meal and give you my blessing before death comes to me.

And not only so, but Rebecca being about to have a child by our father Isaac--

Nor of the will of man

I say what is true in Christ, and not what is false, my mind giving witness with me in the Holy Spirit,

Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to God for them is, that they may get salvation.

I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God gave the increase.

For it is God who is the cause of your desires and of your acts, for his good pleasure.

Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.

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That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.

Not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but in the measure of his mercy, he gave us salvation, through the washing of the new birth and the giving of new life in the Holy Spirit,

And now, my children, keep your hearts in him; so that at his revelation, we may have no fear or shame before him at his coming.

General references

For even his brothers had no belief in him.

He who is a child of God gives ear to the words of God: your ears are not open to them because you are not from God.

So then, it is not by the desire or by the attempt of man, but by the mercy of God.

Because you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.