Parallel Verses
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.
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 you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
6
Names
Cross References
Genesis 6:12
And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.
Job 25:4
How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure?
Ezekiel 36:26-27
And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
Romans 8:4-9
in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Galatians 5:16-21
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
Genesis 5:3
When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
Genesis 6:5
The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Job 15:14-16
What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can 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 a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,
John 1:13
who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
Romans 7:5
For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.
Romans 7:18
For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.
Romans 7:25-1
Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
Romans 8:13
For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
1 Corinthians 6:17
But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.
1 Corinthians 15:47-50
The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven.
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Galatians 5:24
And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Ephesians 2:3
among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
Colossians 2:11
In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,
1 John 3:9
No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God.