John 3:6

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τὸ γεγεννημένον ἐκ τῆς σαρκὸς σάρξ ἐστιν· καὶ τὸ γεγεννημένον ἐκ τοῦ Πνεύματος πνεῦμά ἐστιν.

Transliteration

The gegennēmenon ek tēs sarkos sarx estin; and the gegennēmenon ek tou Pneumatos pneuma estin.

Grammar Details

• *gegennēmenon*: perfect, passive participle, nominative, neuter, singular - having been born
• *ek*: preposition + genitive - from/out of
• *sarkos*: genitive, feminine, singular - of flesh
• *sarx*: nominative, feminine, singular - flesh
• *estin*: present, 3rd singular - is
• *Pneumatos*: genitive, neuter, singular - of Spirit
• *pneuma*: nominative, neuter, singular - spirit

Word Meanings

• *sarx*: flesh/physical body/human nature/carnality
• *pneuma*: spirit/Spirit/spiritual nature
• *gegennēmenon*: that which has been born/the born thing

Referenced Verses

• Rom 8:4-9 : 4 that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 5 For they that are after the flesh mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 6 For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace: 7 because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be: 8 and they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 But ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
• Gal 5:16-21 : 16 But I say, {G1161} walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not {G3361} fulfil the lust of the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the other; that ye may not do the things that {G302} ye would. 18 But if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]: {G3430} fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties, 21 envyings, {G5408} drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did {G2532} forewarn you, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
• Ezek 36:26-27 : 26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep mine ordinances, and do them.
• Job 14:4 : 4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
• Job 25:4 : 4 How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
• Gen 6:12 : 12 And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.
• 2 Cor 5:17 : 17 Wherefore if any man is in Christ, [he is] a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.
• Eph 2:3 : 3 among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest: —
• Col 2:11 : 11 in whom ye were also circumcised with 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 : 9 Whosoever is begotten of God doeth no {G4160} sin, because his seed abideth in him: and he cannot {G3756} sin, because he is begotten of God.
• Gal 5:24 : 24 And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof.
• Ps 51:10 : 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; And renew a right spirit within me.
• Ezek 11:19-20 : 19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh; 20 that they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
• Rom 8:13 : 13 for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
• 1 Cor 6:17 : 17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
• 1 Cor 15:47-50 : 47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is {G2962} of heaven. 48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. 50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood {G3756} cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
• Job 15:14-16 : 14 What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? 15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight: 16 How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!
• Gen 5:3 : 3 And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat [a son] in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
• Gen 6:5 : 5 And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
• John 1:13 : 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
• Rom 7:5 : 5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
• Rom 7:18 : 18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me, but to do that which is good [is] not.
• Rom 7:25-8:1 : 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I of myself with the mind, indeed, serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. 1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus.