Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah! Because of his great mercy he has granted us a new birth, resulting in an immortal hope through the resurrection of Jesus, the Messiah, from the dead

Like newborn babies, thirst for the pure milk of the word so that by it you may grow in your salvation.

No one who has been born from God practices sin, because God's seed abides in him. Indeed, he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born from God.

Dear friends, let us continuously love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born from God and knows God.

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah has been born from God, and everyone who loves the parent also loves the child.

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But when the infants kept on wrestling each other inside her womb, she asked herself, "Why is this happening?" So she asked the LORD for an explanation.

Then prepare some food, just the way I like it, and bring it to me so that I can eat and bless you before I die."

Not only that, but Rebecca became pregnant by our ancestor Isaac.

Nor of the will of man

Your soldiers are willing volunteers on your day of battle; in majestic holiness, from the womb, from the dawn, the dew of your youth belongs to you.

I am telling the truth because I belong to the Messiah I am not lying, and my conscience confirms it by means of the Holy Spirit.

Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God about the Jews is that they would be saved.

I planted, Apollos watered, but God kept everything growing.

For it is God who is producing in you both the desire and the ability to do what pleases him.

In accordance with his will he made us his children by the word of truth, so that we might become the most important of his creatures.

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What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

"Twas not for deeds that we had done, but by his steadfast love alone, he saved us through a second birth, renewed us by the Spirit's work,

Even now, little children, abide in him. Then, when he appears, we will have confidence and will not turn away from him in shame when he comes.

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Not even his brothers believed in him.

The one who belongs to God listens to the words of God. The reason you don't listen is because you don't belong to God."

Therefore, God's choice does not depend on a person's will or effort, but on God himself, who shows mercy.

For all of you are God's children through faith in the Messiah Jesus.