John 3:6

A Meeting With Nicodemus

⁵ Jesus answered, "I tell you, if a man does not owe his birth to water and spirit, he cannot get into the Kingdom of God. ⁶  Whatever owes its birth to the physical is physical, and whatever owes its birth to the Spirit is spiritual. ⁷ Do not wonder at my telling you that you must be born over again from above.

Born of the Flesh

Born of the Spirit

Holy Spirit

Of the Flesh

Romans 8:4-9

so that the requirement of the Law might be fully met in our case, since we live not on the physical but on the spiritual plane.

Galatians 5:16-21

I mean this: Live by the Spirit, and then you will not indulge your physical cravings.

John 1:13

owing their birth not to nature nor to any human or physical impulse, but to God.

Romans 7:5

For when we were living mere physical lives the sinful passions, awakened by the Law, operated through the organs of our bodies to make us bear fruit for death.

Romans 7:18

For I know that nothing good resides in me, that is, in my physical self; I can will, but I cannot do what is right.

Romans 7:25-1

Thank God! it is done through Jesus Christ our Lord! So mentally I am a slave to God's law, but physically to the law of sin.

Romans 8:13

for if you live under the control of the physical you will die, but if, by means of the Spirit, you put the body's doings to death, you will live.

1 Corinthians 6:17

But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.

1 Corinthians 15:47-50

The first man is of the dust of the earth; the second man is from heaven.

2 Corinthians 5:17

So if anyone is in union with Christ, he is a new being; the old state of things has passed away; there is a new state of things.

Galatians 5:24

Those who belong to Jesus the Christ have crucified the physical nature with its propensities and cravings.

Ephesians 2:3

We all lived among them once, indulging our physical cravings and obeying the impulses of our lower nature and its thoughts, and by nature we were doomed to God's wrath like other men.

Colossians 2:11

Through your relation to him you have received not a physical circumcision, but a circumcision effected by Christ, in stripping you of your material nature,

1 John 3:9

No one who is a child of God commits sin, for God's nature remains in his heart, and he cannot sin, because he is a child of God.