1 Peter 1:23

Bible in Basic English 1965

Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.

Cross References

Jeremiah 23:28

If a prophet has a dream, let him give out his dream; and he who has my word, let him give out my word in good faith. What has the dry stem to do with the grain? says the Lord.

Leviticus 11:37

If any part of the dead body of one of these gets on to any seed for planting, it is clean;

Malachi 2:3

See, I will have your arm cut off, and will put waste on your faces, even the waste from your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.

Matthew 24:35

Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end.

Luke 8:11

Now this is the point of the story: The seed is the word of God.

John 1:13

Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.

John 1:3

All things came into existence through him, and without him nothing was.

John 3:3

Jesus said to him, Truly, I say to you, Without a new birth no man is able to see the kingdom of God.

John 3:5

Jesus said in answer, Truly, I say to you, If a man's birth is not from water and from the Spirit, it is not possible for him to go into the kingdom of God.

John 6:63

The spirit is the life giver; the flesh is of no value: the words which I have said to you are spirit and they are life.

Romans 1:23

And by them the glory of the eternal God was changed and made into the image of man who is not eternal, and of birds and beasts and things which go on the earth.

Hebrews 4:12

For the word of God is living and full of power, and is sharper than any two-edged sword, cutting through and making a division even of the soul and the spirit, the bones and the muscles, and quick to see the thoughts and purposes of the heart.

James 1:18

Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.

1 Peter 1:25

But the word of the Lord is eternal. And this is the word of the good news which was given to you.

1 Peter 1:3

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through his great mercy has given us a new birth and a living hope by the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead,

1 John 3:9

Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.

1 John 5:18

We are certain that one who is a child of God will do no sin, but the Son of God keeps him so that he is not touched by the Evil One.