John 3:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

Do not marvel that I said to you, You must be born again.

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  • John 3:3 : 3 Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
  • Eph 4:22-24 : 22 That you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, 23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 And that you put on the new man, which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.
  • Matt 13:33-35 : 33 He told them still another parable: The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds of flour until it worked all through the dough. 34 Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; he did not say anything to them without using a parable. 35 So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet: I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world.
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart,
  • Rev 21:27 : 27 And nothing unclean shall ever enter into it, nor anyone who practices abomination or a lie: but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.
  • Job 15:14 : 14 What is man, that he should be clean? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
  • Col 1:12 : 12 Giving thanks unto the Father, who has made us qualified to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
  • Heb 12:14 : 14 Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord:
  • 1 Pet 1:14-16 : 14 As obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts in your ignorance; 15 But as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct; 16 Because it is written, "Be holy; for I am holy."
  • John 3:12 : 12 If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
  • John 6:61-63 : 61 When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said to them, Does this offend you? 62 What then if you shall see the Son of Man ascend up where he was before? 63 It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak to you, they are spirit, and they are life.
  • Rom 3:9-9 : 9 What then? Are we better than they? Not at all: for we have already charged both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; 10 As it is written, 'There is none righteous, no, not one:' 11 'There is none who understands, there is none who seeks after God.' 12 'They have all turned aside; they have together become unprofitable; there is none who does good, no, not one.' 13 'Their throat is an open grave; with their tongues they have practiced deceit; the poison of vipers is under their lips.' 14 'Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.' 15 'Their feet are swift to shed blood:' 16 'Destruction and misery are in their ways:' 17 'And the way of peace they have not known:' 18 'There is no fear of God before their eyes.' 19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
  • Rom 9:22-25 : 22 What if God, willing to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction: 23 And that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory, 24 Even us whom He has called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles? 25 As He says also in Hosea, I will call them My people, who were not My people; and her beloved, who was not beloved.
  • Rom 12:1-2 : 1 I implore you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world: but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

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