Regeneration

not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into the Kingdom of God!

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.

Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

Don’t marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born anew.’

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

The windblows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don’t know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh; — read the full passage →

But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;

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

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.

We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him.

if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus: — read the full passage →

But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior; — read the full passage →

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.

You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God; for they shall return to me with their whole heart.

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life.

Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into the Kingdom of God! — read the full passage →

and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: — read the full passage →

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

“Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. — read the full passage →

Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire, but you prepared a body for me;

for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?

and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.

and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Yahweh; for they shall all know me, from their least to their greatest, says Yahweh: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit. — read the full passage →

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”

Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?”

I will pour on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue;

Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by God’s Spirit says, “Jesus is accursed.” No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” but by the Holy Spirit.

if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious:

Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,