The angel replied, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore the child to be born will be holy; he will be called the Son of God.

But when the appropriate time had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

But one, the son by the slave woman, was born by natural descent, while the other, the son by the free woman, was born through the promise.

But just as at that time the one born by natural descent persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, so it is now.

Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter his mother's womb and be born a second time, can he?"

What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

When a woman gives birth, she has distress because her time has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.