Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
That which is begotten from the flesh is flesh, and that which is begotten from the Spirit is spirit.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
American Standard Version
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Amplified
An Understandable Version
Whoever is born from human parents is a human being; and whoever is born from the Holy Spirit is a spiritual being.
Anderson New Testament
That which is begotten of the flesh, is flesh; and that which is begotten of the Spirit, is spirit.
Bible in Basic English
That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.
Common New Testament
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Daniel Mace New Testament
the cleansing of the body is only external, but the purification of the spirit is spiritual.
Darby Translation
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Godbey New Testament
That which has been born of the flesh is flesh; and that which has been born of the Spirit is spirit.
Goodspeed New Testament
Whatever owes its birth to the physical is physical, and whatever owes its birth to the Spirit is spiritual.
John Wesley New Testament
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit, is spirit.
Julia Smith Translation
That born of flesh is flesh; and that born of the Spirit is spirit.
King James 2000
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Lexham Expanded Bible
What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Modern King James verseion
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
That which is born of the flesh, is flesh. And that which is born of the spirit, is spirit.
Moffatt New Testament
What is born of the flesh is flesh: what is born of the Spirit is Spirit.
Montgomery New Testament
What is born of the flesh is flesh; and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
NET Bible
What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
New Heart English Bible
That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Noyes New Testament
That which is born of the flesh, is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit, is spirit.
Sawyer New Testament
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is a spirit.
The Emphasized Bible
That which hath been born of the flesh, is, flesh, and, that which hath been born of the spirit, is, spirit.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Twentieth Century New Testament
All that owes its birth to human nature is human, and all that owes its birth to the Spirit is spiritual.
Webster
That which is born of the flesh, is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit, is spirit.
Weymouth New Testament
Whatever has been born of the flesh is flesh, and whatever has been born of the Spirit is spirit.
Williams New Testament
Whatever is born of the physical is physical, and whatever is born of the Spirit is spiritual.
World English Bible
That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Worrell New Testament
That which has been born of the flesh is flesh: and that which has been born of the Spirit is spirit.
Worsley New Testament
That, which is born of the flesh, is flesh; and that, which is born of the Spirit, is spirit.
Youngs Literal Translation
that which hath been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which hath been born of the Spirit is spirit.
Themes
Baptism » Regeneration, the inward and spiritual grace of
Fall of man » Man in consequence of » Born in sin
Flesh » That which is born of the flesh
Holy spirit » As author of the new birth
Holy spirit » Those that are born of the spirit
Jesus Christ » History of » Nicodemus comes to jesus (in jerusalem)
Spiritual life » Has its origin in the new-birth
New Birth » The corruption of human nature requires
New Birth » Effected by » The holy ghost
Nicodemus » Becomes a disciple of jesus
Rebirth/being born again » Those that are born of God
Rebirth/being born again » Those that are not born again
Rebirth/being born again » That which is born of the spirit
Interlinear
Gennao
Ek
ἐκ ἐξ
Ek
Usage: 709
Esti
ἐστί
Esti
Usage: 585
Gennao
Devotionals
Devotionals about John 3:6
Devotionals containing John 3:6
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in John 3:6
Prayers for John 3:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Meeting With Nicodemus
5 Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to thee, If any man is not begotten from water and Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6 That which is begotten from the flesh is flesh, and that which is begotten from the Spirit is spirit. 7 Marvel not that I said to thee, ye must be begotten from above.
Names
Cross References
Genesis 6:12
And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.
Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
Job 25:4
How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean who is born of a woman?
Ezekiel 36:26-27
I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. And I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
Romans 8:4-9
so that the justice of the law might be fulfilled in us, those who walk not according to flesh, but according to Spirit.
Galatians 5:16-21
But I say, walk in Spirit and ye will, no, not fulfill a lust of flesh.
Genesis 5:3
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.
Genesis 6:5
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.
Job 15:14-16
What is man, that he should be clean? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Psalm 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
Ezekiel 11:19-20
And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. And I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh,
John 1:13
who were begotten, not from blood, nor from a will of flesh, nor from a will of man, but from God.
Romans 7:5
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.
Romans 7:18
For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, for to will is present in me, but to do the good, I find not.
Romans 7:25-1
I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then, I of myself in the mind indeed serve a law of God, but in the flesh a law of sin.
Romans 8:13
For if ye live according to flesh, ye are going to die, but if in spirit ye kill the deeds of the body, ye will live.
1 Corinthians 6:17
But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.
1 Corinthians 15:47-50
The first man was of the earth, earthly. The second man is the Lord from heaven.
2 Corinthians 5:17
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.
Galatians 5:24
And those of the Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and the lusts.
Ephesians 2:3
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.
Colossians 2:11
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.
1 John 3:9
Every man who has been begotten of God is not doing sin, because his seed abides in him, and he cannot sin, because he has been begotten of God.