John 3:7

World English Bible (2000)

Don't marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born anew.'

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  • John 3:3 : 3 Jesus answered him, "Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can't see the Kingdom of God."
  • Eph 4:22-24 : 22 that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit; 23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
  • Rev 21:27 : 27 There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.
  • Matt 13:33-35 : 33 He spoke another parable to them. "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened." 34 Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn't speak to them, 35 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, "I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world."
  • John 5:28 : 28 Don't marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice,
  • John 6:61-63 : 61 But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, "Does this cause you to stumble? 62 Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? 63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
  • Rom 3:9-9 : 9 What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin. 10 As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one. 11 There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God. 12 They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not, so much as one." 13 "Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips;" 14 "whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness." 15 "Their feet are swift to shed blood. 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways. 17 The way of peace, they haven't known." 18 "There is no fear of God before their eyes." 19 Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
  • Rom 9:22-25 : 22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction, 23 and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory, 24 us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles? 25 As he says also in Hosea, "I will call them 'my people,' which were not my people; and her 'beloved,' who was not beloved."
  • Rom 12:1-2 : 1 Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. 2 Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
  • Job 15:14 : 14 What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
  • John 3:12 : 12 If I told you earthly things and you don't believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
  • Col 1:12 : 12 giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;
  • Heb 12:14 : 14 Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
  • 1 Pet 1:14-16 : 14 as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance, 15 but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior; 16 because it is written, "You shall be holy; for I am holy."

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    1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

    2 The same came to him by night, and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him."

    3 Jesus answered him, "Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can't see the Kingdom of God."

    4 Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and be born?"

    5 Jesus answered, "Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can't enter into the Kingdom of God!

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    8 The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don't know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."

    9 Nicodemus answered him, "How can these things be?"

    10 Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and don't understand these things?

    11 Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don't receive our witness.

    12 If I told you earthly things and you don't believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

    13 No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

    14 As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

    15 that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

    16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

  • 13 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

  • 23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

  • 3 and said, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

  • 31 He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the Earth belongs to the Earth, and speaks of the Earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

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    23 He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

    24 I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins."

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    50 Jesus answered him, "Because I told you, 'I saw you underneath the fig tree,' do you believe? You will see greater things than these!"

    51 He said to him, "Most certainly, I tell you, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man."

  • 50 Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,

  • 27 John answered, "A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven.

  • 17 Most certainly, I tell you, whoever doesn't receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it."

  • 15 Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it."

  • 9 Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God.

  • 5 not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

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    62 Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?

    63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

  • 8 I baptized you in water, but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit."

  • 8 Therefore bring forth fruit worthy of repentance!

  • 13 Don't be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

  • 5 For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now."

  • 13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him.

  • 1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.

  • 28 Don't marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice,

  • 23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

  • 18 Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

  • 48 Jesus therefore said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe."

  • 41 You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God."

  • 29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of him.

  • 33 I didn't recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water, he said to me, 'On whomever you will see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.'

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  • 1 "Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn't enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

  • 30 The man answered them, "How amazing! You don't know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.

  • 39 But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn't yet glorified.

  • 13 Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,

  • 47 He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don't hear, because you are not of God."