Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth 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.
A Conservative Version
That which is begotten from the flesh is flesh, and that which is begotten from 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.
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 said in answer, Truly, I say to you, If a man's birth is not from water and from the Spirit, it is not possible for him to go into the kingdom of God. 6 That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not be surprised that I say to you, It is necessary for you to have a second birth.
Names
Cross References
Genesis 6:12
And God, looking on the earth, saw that it was evil: for the way of all flesh had become evil on the earth.
Job 14:4
If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.
Job 25:4
How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?
Ezekiel 36:26-27
And I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you: I will take away the heart of stone from your flesh, and give you a heart of flesh.
Romans 8:4-9
So that what was ordered by the law might be done in us, who are living, not in the way of the flesh, but in the way of the Spirit.
Galatians 5:16-21
But I say, Go on in the Spirit, and you will not come under the rule of the evil desires of the flesh.
Genesis 5:3
Adam had been living for a hundred and thirty years when he had a son like himself, after his image, and gave him the name of Seth:
Genesis 6:5
And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil.
Job 15:14-16
What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?
Psalm 51:10
Make a clean heart in me, O God; give me a right spirit again.
Ezekiel 11:19-20
And I will give them a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in them; and I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh:
John 1:13
Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.
Romans 7:5
For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.
Romans 7:18
For I am conscious that in me, that is, in my flesh, there is nothing good: I have the mind but not the power to do what is right.
Romans 7:25-1
I give praise to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So with my mind I am a servant to the law of God, but with my flesh to the law of sin.
Romans 8:13
For if you go in the way of the flesh, death will come on you; but if by the Spirit you put to death the works of the body, you will have life.
1 Corinthians 6:17
But he who is united to the Lord is one spirit.
1 Corinthians 15:47-50
The first man is from the earth, and of the earth: the second man is from heaven.
2 Corinthians 5:17
So if any man is in Christ, he is in a new world: the old things have come to an end; they have truly become new.
Galatians 5:24
And those who are Christ's have put to death on the cross the flesh with its passions and its evil desires.
Ephesians 2:3
Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.
Colossians 2:11
In whom you had a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;
1 John 3:9
Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.