John 3:6

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Cross References

Genesis 5:3

When Adam had lived one hundred thirty years, he became the father of a son in his likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth.

Genesis 6:12

And God saw that the earth was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted its ways upon the earth.

Genesis 6:5

The Lord saw that the wickedness of humankind was great in the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually.

Job 14:4

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one can.

Job 25:4

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

Psalm 51:10

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.

John 1:13

who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God.

John 3:7

Do not be astonished that I said to you, ‘You must be born from above.’

Romans 7:18

For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot do it.

Romans 7:25

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I am a slave to the law of God, but with my flesh I am a slave to the law of sin.

Romans 7:5

While we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.

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.

1 Corinthians 6:17

But anyone united to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.

2 Corinthians 5:17

So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new!

Galatians 5:24

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

Ephesians 2:3

All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else.

Colossians 2:11

In him also you were circumcised with a spiritual circumcision, by putting off the body of the flesh in the circumcision of Christ;

1 John 3:9

Those who have been born of God do not sin, because God's seed abides in them; they cannot sin, because they have been born of God.