John 3:4

Nicodemus asked him, "How can a person be born when he is old? He can't go back into his mother's womb a second time and be born, can he?"

John 3:3

Jesus replied to him, "Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born from above he cannot see the kingdom of God."

John 4:11-12

The woman told him, "Sir, you don't have a bucket, and the well is deep. Where are you going to get this living water?

John 6:53

So Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves.

John 6:60

When many of his disciples heard this, they said, "This is a difficult statement. Who can accept it?"

1 Corinthians 1:18

For the message about the cross is nonsense to those who are being destroyed, but it is God's power to us who are being saved.

1 Corinthians 2:14

A person who isn't spiritual doesn't accept the things of God's Spirit, for they are nonsense to him. He can't understand them because they are spiritually evaluated.

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Summary

Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?

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Bible References

General references

Ezekiel 44:9
"This is what the Lord GOD says, "No foreigner who is both uncircumcised in heart and flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the Israelis is to enter my sanctuary.
Mark 10:15
I tell all of you with certainty, whoever doesn't receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it."

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