John 3:6

New American Bible - revised edition

What is born of flesh is flesh and what is born of spirit is spirit.

Cross References

2 Corinthians 5:17

So whoever is in Christ is a new creation: the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come.

1 John 3:9

No one who is begotten by God commits sin, because God’s seed remains in him; he cannot sin because he is begotten by God.

1 Corinthians 6:17

But whoever is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.

Romans 7:18

For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh. The willing is ready at hand, but doing the good is not.

Genesis 6:12

When God saw how corrupt the earth had become, since all mortals had corrupted their ways on earth,

Psalm 51:10

You will let me hear gladness and joy; the bones you have crushed will rejoice.

Job 25:4

How can anyone be in the right against God, or how can any born of woman be innocent?

Job 14:4

Can anyone make the unclean clean? No one can.

Romans 8:13

For if you live according to the flesh, you will die, but if by the spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. Children of God Through Adoption.

Ephesians 2:3

All of us once lived among them in the desires of our flesh, following the wishes of the flesh and the impulses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest.

Colossians 2:11

In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not administered by hand, by stripping off the carnal body, with the circumcision of Christ.

Galatians 5:24

Now those who belong to Christ [Jesus] have crucified their flesh with its passions and desires.

John 1:13

who were born not by natural generation nor by human choice nor by a man’s decision but of God.

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, our sinful passions, awakened by the law, worked in our members to bear fruit for death.

Genesis 6:5

When the Lord saw how great the wickedness of human beings was on earth, and how every desire that their heart conceived was always nothing but evil,

Genesis 5:3

Adam was one hundred and thirty years old when he begot a son in his likeness, after his image; and he named him Seth.

Romans 7:25

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore, I myself, with my mind, serve the law of God but, with my flesh, the law of sin.

John 3:7

Do not be amazed that I told you, ‘You must be born from above.’