John 3:6

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

that which hath been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which hath been born of the Spirit is spirit.

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  • Rom 8:4-9 : 4 that the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 5 For those who are according to the flesh, the things of the flesh do mind; and those according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit; 6 for the mind of the flesh `is' death, and the mind of the Spirit -- life and peace; 7 because the mind of the flesh `is' enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself, 8 for neither is it able; and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God. 9 And ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God doth dwell in you; and if any one hath not the Spirit of Christ -- this one is not His;
  • Gal 5:16-21 : 16 And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete; 17 for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will -- these ye may not do; 18 and if by the Spirit ye are led, ye are not under law. 19 And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects, 21 envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.
  • Ezek 36:26-27 : 26 And I have given to you a new heart, And a new spirit I give in your midst, And I have turned aside the heart of stone out of your flesh, And I have given to you a heart of flesh. 27 And My Spirit I give in your midst, And I have done this, so that in My statutes ye walk, And My judgments ye keep, and have done them.
  • Job 14:4 : 4 Who giveth a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
  • Job 25:4 : 4 And what? is man righteous with God? And what? is he pure -- born of a woman?
  • Gen 6:12 : 12 And God seeth the earth, and lo, it hath been corrupted, for all flesh hath corrupted its way on the earth.
  • 2 Cor 5:17 : 17 so that if any one `is' in Christ -- `he is' a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.
  • Eph 2:3 : 3 among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath -- as also the others,
  • Col 2:11 : 11 in whom also ye were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh in the circumcision of the Christ,
  • 1 John 3:9 : 9 every one who hath been begotten of God, sin he doth not, because his seed in him doth remain, and he is not able to sin, because of God he hath been begotten.
  • Gal 5:24 : 24 and those who are Christ's, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires;
  • Ps 51:10 : 10 A clean heart prepare for me, O God, And a right spirit renew within me.
  • Ezek 11:19-20 : 19 And I have given to them one heart, And a new spirit I do give in your midst, And I have turned the heart of stone out of their flesh, And I have given to them a heart of flesh. 20 So that in My statutes they walk, And My judgments they keep, and have done them, And they have been to me for a people, And I am to them for God.
  • Rom 8:13 : 13 for if according to the flesh ye do live, ye are about to die; and if, by the Spirit, the deeds of the body ye put to death, ye shall live;
  • 1 Cor 6:17 : 17 And he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit;
  • 1 Cor 15:47-50 : 47 The first man `is' out of the earth, earthy; the second man `is' the Lord out of heaven; 48 as `is' the earthy, such `are' also the earthy; and as `is' the heavenly, such `are' also the heavenly; 49 and, according as we did bear the image of the earthy, we shall bear also the image of the heavenly. 50 And this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood the reign of God is not able to inherit, nor doth the corruption inherit the incorruption;
  • Job 15:14-16 : 14 What `is' man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman? 15 Lo, in His holy ones He putteth no credence, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes. 16 Also -- surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.
  • Gen 5:3 : 3 And Adam liveth an hundred and thirty years, and begetteth `a son' in his likeness, according to his image, and calleth his name Seth.
  • Gen 6:5 : 5 And Jehovah seeth that abundant `is' the wickedness of man in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil all the day;
  • John 1:13 : 13 who -- not of blood nor of a will of flesh, nor of a will of man but -- of God were begotten.
  • Rom 7:5 : 5 for when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, that `are' through the law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to the death;
  • Rom 7:18 : 18 for I have known that there doth not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, good: for to will is present with me, and to work that which is right I do not find,
  • Rom 7:25-8:1 : 25 I thank God -- through Jesus Christ our Lord; so then, I myself indeed with the mind do serve the law of God, and with the flesh, the law of sin. 1 There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit;

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    5For those who are according to the flesh, the things of the flesh do mind; and those according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit;

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    16And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;

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    50And this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood the reign of God is not able to inherit, nor doth the corruption inherit the incorruption;

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