John 3:6

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

The only life people get from their human parents is physical. But the new life that the Spirit gives a person is spiritual.

Cross References

2 Corinthians 5:17

When anyone is in Christ, it is a whole new world. The old things are gone; suddenly, everything is new!

1 John 3:9

Those who are God’s children do not continue to sin, because the new life God gave them stays in them. They cannot keep sinning, because they have become children of God.

1 Corinthians 6:17

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

Romans 7:18

Yes, I know that nothing good lives in me—I mean nothing good lives in the part of me that is not spiritual. I want to do what is good, but I don’t do it.

Psalm 51:10

God, create a pure heart in me, and make my spirit strong again.

Job 25:4

How can anyone claim to be right before God? No human being can really be pure.

Job 14:4

“No one can make something clean from something so dirty.

Romans 8:13

If you use your lives to do what your sinful selves want, you will die spiritually. But if you use the Spirit’s help to stop doing the wrong things you do with your body, you will have true life.

Ephesians 2:3

In the past all of us lived like that, trying to please our sinful selves. We did all the things our bodies and minds wanted. Like everyone else in the world, we deserved to suffer God’s anger just because of the way we were.

Colossians 2:11

In Christ you had a different kind of circumcision, one that was not done by human hands. That is, you were made free from the power of your sinful self. That is the kind of circumcision Christ does.

Galatians 5:24

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified their sinful self. They have given up their old selfish feelings and the evil things they wanted to do.

John 1:13

They became God’s children, but not in the way babies are usually born. It was not because of any human desire or plan. They were born from God himself.

Romans 7:5

In the past we were ruled by our sinful selves. The law made us want to do sinful things. And those sinful desires controlled our bodies, so that what we did only brought us spiritual death.

Genesis 6:5

The Lord saw that the people on the earth were very evil. He saw that they thought only about evil things all the time.

Genesis 5:3

After Adam was 130 years old, he had another son. This son looked just like Adam. Adam named his son Seth.

Romans 7:25

I thank God for his salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord! So in my mind I am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful self I am a slave to the law of sin.

John 3:7

Don’t be surprised that I told you, ‘You must be born again.’