John 1:13

God's Word

These people didn’t become God’s children in a physical way—from a human impulse or from a husband’s desire ⌞to have a child⌟. They were born from God.

Cross References

Genesis 25:22

When the children inside her were struggling with each other, she said, “If it’s like this now, what will become of me?” So she went to ask the Lord.

Genesis 25:28

Because Isaac liked to eat the meat of wild animals, he loved Esau. However, Rebekah loved Jacob.

Genesis 27:33

Trembling violently all over, Isaac asked, “Who hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it before you came in. I blessed him, and he will stay blessed.”

Genesis 27:4

Prepare a good-tasting meal for me, just the way I like it. Bring it to me to eat so that I will bless you before I die.”

Psalm 110:3

Your people will volunteer when you call up your army. Your young people will come to you in holy splendor like dew in the early morning.

Matthew 3:9

Don’t think you can say, ‘Abraham is our ancestor.’ I can guarantee that God can raise up descendants for Abraham from these stones.

John 3:3

Jesus replied to Nicodemus, “I can guarantee this truth: No one can see God’s kingdom without being born from above.”

1 Corinthians 3:6

I planted, and Apollos watered, but God made it grow.

Philippians 2:13

It is God who produces in you the desires and actions that please him.

Titus 3:5

he saved us, but not because of anything we had done to gain his approval. Instead, because of his mercy he saved us through the washing in which the Holy Spirit gives us new birth and renewal.

James 1:18

God decided to give us life through the word of truth to make us his most important creatures.

1 Peter 1:23

You have been born again, not from a seed that can be destroyed, but through God’s everlasting word that can’t be destroyed. That’s why ⌞Scripture says⌟,

1 Peter 1:3

Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! God has given us a new birth because of his great mercy. We have been born into a new life that has a confidence which is alive because Jesus Christ has come back to life.

1 Peter 2:2

Desire God’s pure word as newborn babies desire milk. Then you will grow in your salvation.

1 John 3:9

Those who have been born from God don’t live sinful lives. What God has said lives in them, and they can’t live sinful lives. They have been born from God.

1 John 4:7

Dear friends, we must love each other because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born from God and knows God.

1 John 5:1

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah has been born from God. Everyone who loves the Father also loves his children.

1 John 5:18

We know that those who have been born from God don’t go on sinning. Rather, the Son of God protects them, and the evil one can’t harm them.

1 John 5:4

because everyone who has been born from God has won the victory over the world. Our faith is what wins the victory over the world.