John 3:6

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Summary

John 3:6

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

Born of the flesh

General references

Mark 10:15

1 Corinthians 6:17

Bible References

Born of the flesh

And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot [a son] in his own likeness, according to his image, and called his name Seth.

And LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

What is man, that he should be clean? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean who is born of a woman?

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

For when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins were working in our body-parts (through the law) in order to bear fruit to death.

Consequently nothing is condemnation now to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to flesh but according to Spirit.

The first man was of the earth, earthly. The second man is the Lord from heaven.

So then if any man is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away, behold, all things have become new.

But I say, walk in Spirit and ye will, no, not fulfill a lust of flesh.

Among whom we also all once behaved in the lusts of our flesh, doing the intentions of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath as also the others.

In whom also ye were circumcised a circumcision not made with hands, in the removal of the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of the Christ.

General references

Truly I say to you, whoever will not receive the kingdom of God as a child, he will, no, not enter it.

But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.