John 3:6

New International Version

Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.

Cross References

2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

1 John 3:9

No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God.

1 Corinthians 6:17

But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.

Romans 7:18

For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.

Genesis 6:12

God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.

Psalm 51:10

Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Job 25:4

How then can a mortal be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

Job 14:4

Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one!

Romans 8:13

For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.

Ephesians 2:3

All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath.

Colossians 2:11

In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands. Your whole self ruled by the flesh was put off when you were circumcised by Christ,

Galatians 5:24

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

John 1:13

children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the realm of the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death.

Genesis 6:5

The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.

Genesis 5:3

When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.

Romans 7:25

Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.

John 3:7

You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You must be born again.’