John 3:7

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`Thou mayest not wonder that I said to thee, It behoveth you to be born from above;

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  • John 3:3 : 3 Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'
  • Eph 4:22-24 : 22 ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit, 23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and to put on the new man, which, according to God, was created in righteousness and kindness of the truth.
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,
  • Rev 21:27 : 27 and there may not at all enter into it any thing defiling and doing abomination, and a lie, but -- those written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb.
  • Matt 13:33-35 : 33 Another simile spake he to them: `The reign of the heavens is like to leaven, which a woman having taken, hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.' 34 All these things spake Jesus in similes to the multitudes, and without a simile he was not speaking to them, 35 that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through the prophet, saying, `I will open in similes my mouth, I will utter things having been hidden from the foundation of the world.'
  • John 5:28 : 28 `Wonder not at this, because there doth come an hour in which all those in the tombs shall hear his voice,
  • John 6:61-63 : 61 And Jesus having known in himself that his disciples are murmuring about this, said to them, `Doth this stumble you? 62 if then ye may behold the Son of Man going up where he was before? 63 the spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;
  • Rom 3:9-9 : 9 What, then? are we better? not at all! for we did before charge both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin, 10 according as it hath been written -- `There is none righteous, not even one; 11 There is none who is understanding, there is none who is seeking after God. 12 All did go out of the way, together they became unprofitable, there is none doing good, there is not even one. 13 A sepulchre opened `is' their throat; with their tongues they used deceit; poison of asps `is' under their lips. 14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. 15 Swift `are' their feet to shed blood. 16 Ruin and misery `are' in their ways. 17 And a way of peace they did not know. 18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.' 19 And we have known that as many things as the law saith, to those in the law it doth speak, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may come under judgment to God;
  • Rom 9:22-25 : 22 And if God, willing to shew the wrath and to make known His power, did endure, in much long suffering, vessels of wrath fitted for destruction, 23 and that He might make known the riches of His glory on vessels of kindness, that He before prepared for glory, whom also He did call -- us -- 24 not only out of Jews, but also out of nations, 25 as also in Hosea He saith, `I will call what `is' not My people -- My people; and her not beloved -- Beloved,
  • Rom 12:1-2 : 1 I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice -- living, sanctified, acceptable to God -- your intelligent service; 2 and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what `is' the will of God -- the good, and acceptable, and perfect.
  • Job 15:14 : 14 What `is' man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?
  • John 3:12 : 12 if the earthly things I said to you, and ye do not believe, how, if I shall say to you the heavenly things, will ye believe?
  • Col 1:12 : 12 Giving thanks to the Father who did make us meet for the participation of the inheritance of the saints in the light,
  • Heb 12:14 : 14 peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,
  • 1 Pet 1:14-16 : 14 as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance, 15 but according as He who did call you `is' holy, ye also, become holy in all behaviour, 16 because it hath been written, `Become ye holy, because I am holy;'

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  • John 3:1-6
    6 verses
    89%

    1And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews,

    2this one came unto him by night, and said to him, `Rabbi, we have known that from God thou hast come -- a teacher, for no one these signs is able to do that thou dost, if God may not be with him.'

    3Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'

    4Nicodemus saith unto him, `How is a man able to be born, being old? is he able into the womb of his mother a second time to enter, and to be born?'

    5Jesus answered, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born of water, and the Spirit, he is not able to enter into the reign of God;

    6that which hath been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which hath been born of the Spirit is spirit.

  • John 3:8-16
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    85%

    8the Spirit where he willeth doth blow, and his voice thou dost hear, but thou hast not known whence he cometh, and whither he goeth; thus is every one who hath been born of the Spirit.'

    9Nicodemus answered and said to him, `How are these things able to happen?'

    10Jesus answered and said to him, `Thou art the teacher of Israel -- and these things thou dost not know!

    11`Verily, verily, I say to thee -- What we have known we speak, and what we have seen we testify, and our testimony ye do not receive;

    12if the earthly things I said to you, and ye do not believe, how, if I shall say to you the heavenly things, will ye believe?

    13and no one hath gone up to the heaven, except he who out of the heaven came down -- the Son of Man who is in the heaven.

    14`And as Moses did lift up the serpent in the wilderness, so it behoveth the Son of Man to be lifted up,

    15that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during,

    16for God did so love the world, that His Son -- the only begotten -- He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

  • John 1:13
    78%

    13who -- not of blood nor of a will of flesh, nor of a will of man but -- of God were begotten.

  • 1 Pet 1:23
    75%

    23being begotten again, not out of seed corruptible, but incorruptible, through a word of God -- living and remaining -- to the age;

  • Matt 18:3
    75%

    3and said, `Verily I say to you, if ye may not be turned and become as the children, ye may not enter into the reign of the heavens;

  • John 3:31
    72%

    31he who from above is coming is above all; he who is from the earth, from the earth he is, and from the earth he speaketh; he who from the heaven is coming is above all.

  • John 8:23-24
    2 verses
    71%

    23and he said to them, `Ye are from beneath, I am from above; ye are of this world, I am not of this world;

    24I said, therefore, to you, that ye shall die in your sins, for if ye may not believe that I am `he', ye shall die in your sins.'

  • John 1:50-51
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    50Jesus answered and said to him, `Because I said to thee, I saw thee under the fig-tree, thou dost believe; greater things than these thou shalt see;'

    51and he saith to him, `Verily, verily, I say to you, henceforth ye shall see the heaven opened, and the messengers of God going up and coming down upon the Son of Man.'

  • John 7:50
    70%

    50Nicodemus saith unto them -- he who came by night unto him -- being one of them,

  • John 3:27
    70%

    27John answered and said, `A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven;

  • Luke 18:17
    69%

    17verily I say to you, Whoever may not receive the reign of God as a little child, may not enter into it.'

  • Mark 10:15
    69%

    15verily I say to you, whoever may not receive the reign of God, as a child -- he may not enter into it;'

  • 1 John 3:9
    69%

    9every 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.

  • Titus 3:5
    69%

    5(not by works that `are' in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit,

  • John 6:62-63
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    69%

    62if then ye may behold the Son of Man going up where he was before?

    63the spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;

  • Mark 1:8
    68%

    8I indeed did baptize you with water, but he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit.'

  • Matt 3:8
    68%

    8bear, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation,

  • 1 John 3:13
    68%

    13Do not wonder, my brethren, if the world doth hate you;

  • Acts 1:5
    68%

    5because John, indeed, baptized with water, and ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit -- after not many days.'

  • Matt 3:13
    68%

    13Then cometh Jesus from Galilee upon the Jordan, unto John to be baptized by him,

  • 1 John 5:1
    68%

    1Every one who is believing that Jesus is the Christ, of God he hath been begotten, and every one who is loving Him who did beget, doth love also him who is begotten of Him:

  • John 5:28
    68%

    28`Wonder not at this, because there doth come an hour in which all those in the tombs shall hear his voice,

  • Eph 4:23
    68%

    23and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

  • Jas 1:18
    67%

    18having counselled, He did beget us with a word of truth, for our being a certain first-fruit of His creatures.

  • John 4:48
    67%

    48Jesus then said unto him, `If signs and wonders ye may not see, ye will not believe.'

  • John 8:41
    67%

    41ye do the works of your father.' They said, therefore, to him, `We of whoredom have not been born; one Father we have -- God;'

  • 1 John 2:29
    67%

    29if ye know that he is righteous, know ye that every one doing the righteousness, of him hath been begotten.

  • John 1:33
    67%

    33and I did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water, He said to me, On whomsoever thou mayst see the Spirit coming down, and remaining on him, this is he who is baptizing with the Holy Spirit;

  • 1 John 3:1
    67%

    1See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;

  • John 10:1
    67%

    1`Verily, verily, I say to you, He who is not entering through the door to the fold of the sheep, but is going up from another side, that one is a thief and a robber;

  • John 9:30
    67%

    30The man answered and said to them, `Why, in this is a wonderful thing, that ye have not known whence he is, and he opened my eyes!

  • John 7:39
    67%

    39and this he said of the Spirit, which those believing in him were about to receive; for not yet was the Holy Spirit, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

  • John 4:13
    67%

    13Jesus answered and said to her, `Every one who is drinking of this water shall thirst again;

  • John 8:47
    66%

    47he who is of God, the sayings of God he doth hear; because of this ye do not hear, because of God ye are not.'