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Being Born Again
John 3:3 ESV / 441 helpful votes
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 300 helpful votes
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
1 Peter 1:23 ESV / 299 helpful votes
Since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;
John 3:16 ESV / 244 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:5 ESV / 207 helpful votes
Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
John 3:1-8 ESV / 204 helpful votes
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” 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?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. …
Romans 6:23 ESV / 197 helpful votes
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Acts 2:38 ESV / 185 helpful votes
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Titus 3:5 ESV / 174 helpful votes
He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,
Romans 6:4 ESV / 174 helpful votes
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
1 Peter 1:3 ESV / 159 helpful votes
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 153 helpful votes
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
John 1:12 ESV / 152 helpful votes
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
John 3:8 ESV / 150 helpful votes
The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
John 3:7 ESV / 148 helpful votes
Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’
John 3:1-36 ESV / 143 helpful votes
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” 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?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. …
John 3:1-7 ESV / 137 helpful votes
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” 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?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. …
Romans 10:9-10 ESV / 136 helpful votes
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 129 helpful votes
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
John 3:6 ESV / 129 helpful votes
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Romans 5:8 ESV / 128 helpful votes
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 6:6 ESV / 122 helpful votes
We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
Acts 22:16 ESV / 122 helpful votes
And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.’
James 1:18 ESV / 110 helpful votes
Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
John 1:13 ESV / 109 helpful votes
Who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
Mark 16:16 ESV / 106 helpful votes
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
John 3:36 ESV / 99 helpful votes
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
John 3:1-21 ESV / 97 helpful votes
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” 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?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. …
Romans 3:23 ESV / 96 helpful votes
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
1 John 3:9 ESV / 92 helpful votes
No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God.
Ephesians 2:5-6 ESV / 91 helpful votes
Even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
John 3:4 ESV / 88 helpful votes
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?”
John 3:2 ESV / 88 helpful votes
This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”
Ephesians 2:1 ESV / 79 helpful votes
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins
John 1:1 ESV / 79 helpful votes
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Romans 10:9 ESV / 77 helpful votes
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
John 14:6 ESV / 73 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
1 Corinthians 3:8 ESV / 72 helpful votes
He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor.
1 John 3:1 ESV / 71 helpful votes
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
1 John 5:18 ESV / 68 helpful votes
We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 65 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
1 John 5:4 ESV / 65 helpful votes
For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.
1 John 5:1 ESV / 65 helpful votes
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.
1 Peter 1:22-23 ESV / 63 helpful votes
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;
John 6:63 ESV / 62 helpful votes
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
Ephesians 5:26 ESV / 60 helpful votes
That he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
John 3:1 ESV / 60 helpful votes
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 59 helpful votes
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Romans 12:2 ESV / 56 helpful votes
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Romans 10:10 ESV / 56 helpful votes
For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
1 John 5:20 ESV / 55 helpful votes
And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
Romans 1:16 ESV / 55 helpful votes
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
Galatians 6:15 ESV / 54 helpful votes
For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
1 John 1:8 ESV / 53 helpful votes
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
John 3:3-7 ESV / 53 helpful votes
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” 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?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’
1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 51 helpful votes
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
John 6:52 ESV / 50 helpful votes
The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
John 3:1-14 ESV / 49 helpful votes
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” 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?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. …
John 3:9 ESV / 48 helpful votes
Nicodemus said to him, “How can these things be?”
1 Peter 3:21 ESV / 46 helpful votes
Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
Revelation 3:20 ESV / 45 helpful votes
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
1 John 1:7 ESV / 45 helpful votes
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
Colossians 2:13 ESV / 45 helpful votes
And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
Ephesians 2:3 ESV / 45 helpful votes
Among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
John 4:24 ESV / 45 helpful votes
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
1 John 3:4 ESV / 44 helpful votes
Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.
John 3:17 ESV / 44 helpful votes
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
2 Peter 1:4 ESV / 43 helpful votes
By which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.
John 5:24 ESV / 43 helpful votes
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 41 helpful votes
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
1 Corinthians 3:17 ESV / 41 helpful votes
If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.
John 19:39 ESV / 41 helpful votes
Nicodemus also, who earlier had come to Jesus by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds in weight.
Ezekiel 36:25-27 ESV / 41 helpful votes
I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 40 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Galatians 2:20 ESV / 40 helpful votes
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Acts 17:30-31 ESV / 40 helpful votes
The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”
Acts 2:22 ESV / 40 helpful votes
“Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know—
Colossians 1:13 ESV / 37 helpful votes
He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,
Romans 6:3 ESV / 37 helpful votes
Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
Acts 16:31 ESV / 37 helpful votes
And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
John 8:15 ESV / 37 helpful votes
You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.
John 3:5-6 ESV / 37 helpful votes
Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Revelation 21:8 ESV / 36 helpful votes
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
Romans 15:13 ESV / 36 helpful votes
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 35 helpful votes
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Philippians 1:6 ESV / 35 helpful votes
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 34 helpful votes
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
John 3:3-8 ESV / 32 helpful votes
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” 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?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ …
2 John 1:4 ESV / 31 helpful votes
I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as we were commanded by the Father.
1 Peter 1:16 ESV / 31 helpful votes
Since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
1 John 3:5 ESV / 30 helpful votes
You know that he appeared to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.
Matthew 7:21 ESV / 30 helpful votes
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
John 3:1-12 ESV / 29 helpful votes
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” 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?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. …
Acts 1:8 ESV / 28 helpful votes
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Joel 2:28-32 ESV / 28 helpful votes
“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions. Even on the male and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit. “And I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke. The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the Lord has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the Lord calls.
John 3:10 ESV / 26 helpful votes
Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things?
John 6:44 ESV / 25 helpful votes
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 25 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
John 3:3-4 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” 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?”
John 1:33 ESV / 25 helpful votes
I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’
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