John 3:6

A Meeting With Nicodemus

⁵ Jesus answered, "Truly, truly I say to you, unless someone is born of water and spirit, he is not able to enter into the kingdom of God. ⁶ What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. ⁷ Do not be astonished that I said to you, 'It is necessary for you to be born from above.'

Born of the Flesh

Born of the Spirit

Holy Spirit

Of the Flesh

John

Genesis 6:12

And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth.

Job 14:4

"Who can bring a clean [thing] from an unclean [thing]? No one!

Job 25:4

"Indeed, how can a human being be righteous before God? And how will he who is born of a woman be pure?

Ezekiel 36:26-27

And I will give a new heart to you, and a new spirit I will give into your inner parts, and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh, and I will give to you a heart of flesh.

Romans 8:4-9

in order that the requirement of the law would be fulfilled in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

Galatians 5:16-21

But I say, live by the Spirit, and you will never carry out the desire of the flesh.

Genesis 5:3

And when Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he fathered a child in his likeness, according to his image. And he called his name Seth.

Genesis 6:5

And Yahweh saw that the evil of humankind [was] great upon the earth, and every inclination of the thoughts of his heart [was] always only evil.

Job 15:14-16

"What [is] a human being, that he can be clean, or that [one] born of a woman can be righteous?

Psalm 51:10

Create a clean heart for me, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit {within me}.

Ezekiel 11:19-20

And I will give to them one heart, and a new spirit I will give in their inner parts. And I will remove their heart of stone from their body, and I will give to 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 a husband, but of God.

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, sinful desires were working through the law in our members, to bear fruit for death.

Romans 7:18

For I know that good does not live in me, that is, in my flesh. For the willing is present in me, but the doing [of] the good [is] not.

Romans 7:25-1

Thanks [be] to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself with my mind am enslaved to the law of God, but with my flesh [I am enslaved] to the law of sin.

Romans 8:13

For if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

1 Corinthians 6:17

But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit [with him].

1 Corinthians 15:47-50

The first man [is] from the earth, made of earth; the second man [is] from heaven.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore if anyone [is] in Christ, [he is] a new creation; the old [things] have passed away; behold, new [things] have come.

Galatians 5:24

Now those {who belong to Christ} have crucified the flesh together with its feelings and its desires.

Ephesians 2:3

among whom also we all formerly lived in the desires of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the mind, and we were children of wrath by nature, as also the rest of [them] were.

Colossians 2:11

in whom also you were circumcised with a circumcision not made by hands, by the removal of the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,

1 John 3:9

Everyone who is fathered by God does not practice sin, because his seed resides in him, and [he is] not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God.