Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy we have been born anew to a life of hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Like newly-born children, thirst for the pure, spiritual milk to make you grow up to salvation.

Anyone who is born of God does not commit sin, for the offspring of God remain in Him, and they cannot sin, because they are born of God.

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

Everyone who believes Jesus is the Christ, is born of God; and everyone who loves the Father, loves the sons born of him.

Nor of the will of the

And further, when Rebecca became pregnant by our father Isaac, though one man was the father of both children,

Nor of the will of man

I am telling the truth in Christ ??it is no lie, my conscience bears me out in the holy Spirit

Oh for their salvation, brothers! That is my heart's desire and prayer to God!

I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but it was God who made the seed grow.

for it is God who in his goodwill enables you to will this and to achieve it.

It was his own will that we should be born by the Word of the truth, to be a kind of firstfruits among his creatures.

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What is born of the flesh is flesh: what is born of the Spirit is Spirit.

and he saved us, not for anything we had done but from his own pity for us, by the water that means regeneration and renewal under the holy Spirit

Remain within him now, my dear children, so that when he appears we may have confidence, instead of shrinking from him in shame at his arrival.

General references

(for even his brothers did not believe in him).

He who belongs to God listens to the words of God; you do not listen to them, because you do not belong to God."

You see, it is not a question of human will or effort but of the divine mercy.

you are all sons of God by your faith in Christ Jesus