John 3:6

Good News Translation

A person is born physically of human parents, but is born spiritually of the Spirit.

Cross References

Genesis 5:3

When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son who was like him, and he named him Seth.

Genesis 6:12

God looked at the world and saw that it was evil, for the people were all living evil lives.

Genesis 6:5

When the Lord saw how wicked everyone on earth was and how evil their thoughts were all the time,

Job 14:4

Nothing clean can ever come from anything as unclean as human beings.

Job 25:4

Can anyone be righteous or pure in God's sight?

Psalm 51:10

Create a pure heart in me, O God, and put a new and loyal spirit in me.

John 1:13

They did not become God's children by natural means, that is, by being born as the children of a human father; God himself was their Father.

John 3:7

Do not be surprised because I tell you that you must all be born again.

Romans 7:18

I know that good does not live in me—that is, in my human nature. For even though the desire to do good is in me, I am not able to do it.

Romans 7:25

Thanks be to God, who does this through our Lord Jesus Christ! This, then, is my condition: on my own I can serve God's law only with my mind, while my human nature serves the law of sin.

Romans 7:5

For when we lived according to our human nature, the sinful desires stirred up by the Law were at work in our bodies, and all we did ended in death.

Romans 8:13

For if you live according to your human nature, you are going to die; but if by the Spirit you put to death your sinful actions, you will live.

1 Corinthians 6:17

But he who joins himself to the Lord becomes spiritually one with him.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Anyone who is joined to Christ is a new being; the old is gone, the new has come.

Galatians 5:24

And those who belong to Christ Jesus have put to death their human nature with all its passions and desires.

Ephesians 2:3

Actually all of us were like them and lived according to our natural desires, doing whatever suited the wishes of our own bodies and minds. In our natural condition we, like everyone else, were destined to suffer God's anger.

Colossians 2:11

In union with Christ you were circumcised, not with the circumcision that is made by human beings, but with the circumcision made by Christ, which consists of being freed from the power of this sinful self.

1 John 3:9

Those who are children of God do not continue to sin, for God's very nature is in them; and because God is their Father, they cannot continue to sin.