John 3:6

First Nations Version

The human body only gives birth to natural life, but it takes the Spirit of Creator to give birth to spiritual life.

Cross References

2 Corinthians 5:17

I am saying that anyone who has been joined together with the Chosen One is now part of the new creation. For in the Chosen One the old creation has faded away and the new creation has come into being.

1 John 3:9

Those who have been born from the Great Spirit do not keep walking in broken ways. They are not able to, for Creator is their Father and he has planted his message deep within them to stay.

1 Corinthians 6:17

But the one who is joined together with our Honored Chief is one spirit with him.

Romans 7:18

I can now see that there is nothing good in this weak part of me that gives in to wrong desires, for it keeps me from doing what I know to be right.

Ephesians 2:3

This is how all of us once lived when we followed our uncontrolled emotions fed by bodily desires and dark thoughts. These broken ways became our natural condition, and, like the rest of humankind, we were children deserving of Creator’s anger.

Colossians 2:11

In the Chosen One, you received a spiritual cutting of the flesh ceremony done without human hands. The Chosen One did this for you, by the cutting off of your weak human ways.

Galatians 5:24

For the ones who belong to Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One have nailed their weak and broken humanity to his cross. This puts to death all their wrong desires and broken ways.

John 1:13

They are born in a new way, not from a human father’s plans or desires, but born from above—by the Great Spirit.

Romans 7:5

For when we walked in our broken human ways, the law stirred up our evil desires, so that we bore fruit for death.

Romans 7:25

I give thanks to the Great Spirit, for he is the one who set me free through Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One! So then, when I set my mind on what Creator Sets Free (Jesus) has done I serve Creator’s law, even though in my broken humanity I remain a slave to broken ways.

John 3:7

Do not be surprised that I said to you, ‘You must be born from above.’