John 3:6

New Living Translation

Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life.

Cross References

Genesis 5:3

When Adam was 130 years old, he became the father of a son who was just like him—in his very image. He named his son Seth.

Genesis 6:12

God observed all this corruption in the world, for everyone on earth was corrupt.

Genesis 6:5

The Lord observed the extent of human wickedness on the earth, and he saw that everything they thought or imagined was consistently and totally evil.

Job 14:4

Who can bring purity out of an impure person? No one!

Job 25:4

How can a mortal be innocent before God? Can anyone born of a woman be pure?

Psalm 51:10

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a loyal spirit within me.

John 1:13

They are reborn—not with a physical birth resulting from human passion or plan, but a birth that comes from God.

John 3:7

So don’t be surprised when I say, ‘You must be born again.’

Romans 7:18

And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. I want to do what is right, but I can’t.

Romans 7:25

Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord. So you see how it is: In my mind I really want to obey God’s law, but because of my sinful nature I am a slave to sin.

Romans 7:5

When we were controlled by our old nature, sinful desires were at work within us, and the law aroused these evil desires that produced a harvest of sinful deeds, resulting in death.

Romans 8:13

For if you live by its dictates, you will die. But if through the power of the Spirit you put to death the deeds of your sinful nature, you will live.

1 Corinthians 6:17

But the person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him.

2 Corinthians 5:17

This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!

Galatians 5:24

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and crucified them there.

Ephesians 2:3

All of us used to live that way, following the passionate desires and inclinations of our sinful nature. By our very nature we were subject to God’s anger, just like everyone else.

Colossians 2:11

When you came to Christ, you were “circumcised,” but not by a physical procedure. Christ performed a spiritual circumcision—the cutting away of your sinful nature.

1 John 3:9

Those who have been born into God’s family do not make a practice of sinning, because God’s life is in them. So they can’t keep on sinning, because they are children of God.