Blessed be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has caused us to be born again into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Like newborn babes, long for the pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,

No one who is of God practices sin, for God's seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the parent loves the child.

Nor of the will of the

And not only so, but also when Rebecca had conceived children by one man, our father Isaac,

Nor of the will of man

I am speaking the truth in Christ, I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit,

Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved.

I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth.

for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

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

he saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but because of his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal in the Holy Spirit,

And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

General references

For even his brothers did not believe in him.

He who is of God hears the words of God; the reason you do not hear them is that you are not of God."

So it depends not upon man's will or exertion, but upon God's mercy.

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