John 3:6

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Humans give life to their children. Yet only God's Spirit can change you into a child of God.

Cross References

Genesis 5:3

When Adam was one hundred and thirty, he had a son who was just like him, and he named him Seth. Adam had more children

Genesis 6:5

The LORD saw how bad the people on earth were and that everything they thought and planned was evil.

Job 14:4

There's no way a human can be completely pure.

Job 25:4

How can anyone be innocent in the sight of God?

Psalm 51:10

Create pure thoughts in me and make me faithful again.

John 1:13

They were not God's children by nature or because of any human desires. God himself was the one who made them his children.

John 3:7

Don't be surprised when I say that you must be born from above.

Romans 7:18

I know that my selfish desires won't let me do anything that is good. Even when I want to do right, I cannot.

Romans 7:25

Thank God! Jesus Christ will rescue me. So with my mind I serve the Law of God, although my selfish desires make me serve the law of sin.

Romans 7:5

When we thought only of ourselves, the Law made us have sinful desires. It made every part of our bodies into slaves who are doomed to die.

Romans 8:13

If you do, you will die. But you will live, if by the help of God's Spirit you say “No” to your desires.

1 Corinthians 6:17

But anyone who is joined to the Lord is one in spirit with him.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Anyone who belongs to Christ is a new person. The past is forgotten, and everything is new.

Galatians 5:24

And because we belong to Christ Jesus, we have killed our selfish feelings and desires.

Ephesians 2:3

Once we were also ruled by the selfish desires of our bodies and minds. We had made God angry, and we were going to be punished like everyone else.

Colossians 2:11

Christ has also taken away your selfish desires, just as circumcision removes flesh from the body.

1 John 3:9

God's children cannot keep on being sinful. His life-giving power lives in them and makes them his children, so that they cannot keep on sinning.