John 3:6

God's Word

Flesh and blood give birth to flesh and blood, but the Spirit gives birth to things that are spiritual.

Cross References

Genesis 5:3

When Adam was 130 years old, he became the father ⌞of a son⌟ in his own likeness, in his own image. He named him Seth.

Genesis 6:12

God saw the world and how corrupt it was because all people on earth lived evil lives.

Genesis 6:5

The Lord saw how evil humans had become on the earth. All day long their deepest thoughts were nothing but evil.

Job 14:4

“If only an unclean person could become clean! It’s not possible.

Job 25:4

How can a person be righteous to God? How can anyone born of a woman be pure?

Psalm 51:10

Create a clean heart in me, O God, and renew a faithful spirit within me.

John 1:13

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.

John 3:7

Don’t be surprised when I tell you that all of you must be born from above.

Romans 7:18

I know that nothing good lives in me; that is, nothing good lives in my corrupt nature. Although I have the desire to do what is right, I don’t do it.

Romans 7:25

I thank God that our Lord Jesus Christ rescues me! So I am obedient to God’s standards with my mind, but I am obedient to sin’s standards with my corrupt nature.

Romans 7:5

While we were living under the influence of our corrupt nature, sinful passions were at work throughout our bodies. Stirred up by the laws in Moses’ Teachings, our sinful passions did things that result in death.

Romans 8:13

If you live by your corrupt nature, you are going to die. But if you use your spiritual nature to put to death the evil activities of the body, you will live.

1 Corinthians 6:17

However, the person who unites himself with the Lord becomes one spirit with him.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Whoever is a believer in Christ is a new creation. The old way of living has disappeared. A new way of living has come into existence.

Galatians 5:24

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified their corrupt nature along with its passions and desires.

Ephesians 2:3

All of us once lived among these people, and followed the desires of our corrupt nature. We did what our corrupt desires and thoughts wanted us to do. So, because of our nature, we deserved God’s anger just like everyone else.

Colossians 2:11

In him you were also circumcised. It was not a circumcision performed by human hands. But it was a removal of the corrupt nature in the circumcision performed by Christ.

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.