John 3:6

New Century Version

Human life comes from human parents, but spiritual life comes from the Spirit.

Cross References

Genesis 5:3

When Adam was 130 years old, he became the father of another son in his likeness and image, and Adam named him Seth.

Genesis 6:12

When God saw that everyone on the earth did only evil,

Genesis 6:5

The Lord saw that the human beings on the earth were very wicked and that everything they thought about was evil.

Job 14:4

No one can bring something clean from something dirty.

Job 25:4

So no one can be good in the presence of God, and no one born to a woman can be pure.

Psalm 51:10

Create in me a pure heart, God, and make my spirit right again.

John 1:13

They did not become his children in any human way—by any human parents or human desire. They were born of God.

John 3:7

Don’t be surprised when I tell you, ‘You must all be born again.’

Romans 7:18

Yes, I know that nothing good lives in me—I mean nothing good lives in the part of me that is earthly and sinful. I want to do the things that are good, but I do not do them.

Romans 7:25

I thank God for saving me 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.

Romans 7:5

In the past, we were ruled by our sinful selves. The law made us want to do sinful things that controlled our bodies, so the things we did were bringing us death.

Romans 8:13

If you use your lives to do the wrong things 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.

1 Corinthians 6:17

But the one who joins with the Lord is one spirit with the Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:17

If anyone belongs to Christ, there is a new creation. The old things have gone; everything is made new!

Galatians 5:24

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

Ephesians 2:3

In the past all of us lived like them, trying to please our sinful selves and doing all the things our bodies and minds wanted. We should have suffered God’s anger because we were sinful by nature. We were the same as all other people.

Colossians 2:11

Also in Christ you had a different kind of circumcision, a circumcision not done by hands. It was through Christ’s circumcision, that is, his death, that you were made free from the power of your sinful self.

1 John 3:9

Those who are God’s children do not continue sinning, because the new life from God remains in them. They are not able to go on sinning, because they have become children of God.