John 3:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Nicodemus saith unto him, `How is a man able to be born, being old? is he able into the womb of his mother a second time to enter, and to be born?'

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Referenced Verses

  • John 3:3 : 3 Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'
  • John 4:11-12 : 11 The woman saith to him, `Sir, thou hast not even a vessel to draw with, and the well is deep; whence, then, hast thou the living water? 12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who did give us the well, and himself out of it did drink, and his sons, and his cattle?'
  • 1 Cor 2:14 : 14 and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know `them', because spiritually they are discerned;
  • John 6:53 : 53 Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, If ye may not eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and may not drink his blood, ye have no life in yourselves;
  • John 6:60 : 60 many, therefore, of his disciples having heard, said, `This word is hard; who is able to hear it?'
  • 1 Cor 1:18 : 18 for the word of the cross to those indeed perishing is foolishness, and to us -- those being saved -- it is the power of God,

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    1And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews,

    2this one came unto him by night, and said to him, `Rabbi, we have known that from God thou hast come -- a teacher, for no one these signs is able to do that thou dost, if God may not be with him.'

    3Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'

  • John 3:5-14
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    5Jesus answered, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born of water, and the Spirit, he is not able to enter into the reign of God;

    6that which hath been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which hath been born of the Spirit is spirit.

    7`Thou mayest not wonder that I said to thee, It behoveth you to be born from above;

    8the Spirit where he willeth doth blow, and his voice thou dost hear, but thou hast not known whence he cometh, and whither he goeth; thus is every one who hath been born of the Spirit.'

    9Nicodemus answered and said to him, `How are these things able to happen?'

    10Jesus answered and said to him, `Thou art the teacher of Israel -- and these things thou dost not know!

    11`Verily, verily, I say to thee -- What we have known we speak, and what we have seen we testify, and our testimony ye do not receive;

    12if the earthly things I said to you, and ye do not believe, how, if I shall say to you the heavenly things, will ye believe?

    13and no one hath gone up to the heaven, except he who out of the heaven came down -- the Son of Man who is in the heaven.

    14`And as Moses did lift up the serpent in the wilderness, so it behoveth the Son of Man to be lifted up,

  • John 7:50
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    50Nicodemus saith unto them -- he who came by night unto him -- being one of them,

  • John 1:13
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    13who -- not of blood nor of a will of flesh, nor of a will of man but -- of God were begotten.

  • 1 Pet 1:23
    71%

    23being begotten again, not out of seed corruptible, but incorruptible, through a word of God -- living and remaining -- to the age;

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    3and said, `Verily I say to you, if ye may not be turned and become as the children, ye may not enter into the reign of the heavens;

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    62if then ye may behold the Son of Man going up where he was before?

  • John 1:50-51
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    50Jesus answered and said to him, `Because I said to thee, I saw thee under the fig-tree, thou dost believe; greater things than these thou shalt see;'

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  • John 3:26-27
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    26and they came unto John, and said to him, `Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou didst testify, lo, this one is baptizing, and all are coming unto him.'

    27John answered and said, `A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven;

  • John 3:31
    68%

    31he who from above is coming is above all; he who is from the earth, from the earth he is, and from the earth he speaketh; he who from the heaven is coming is above all.

  • Luke 18:17
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    17verily I say to you, Whoever may not receive the reign of God as a little child, may not enter into it.'

  • John 9:34
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    34They answered and said to him, `In sins thou wast born altogether, and thou dost teach us!' and they cast him forth without.

  • John 9:1-3
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    1And passing by, he saw a man blind from birth,

    2and his disciples asked him, saying, `Rabbi, who did sin, this one or his parents, that he should be born blind?'

    3Jesus answered, `Neither did this one sin nor his parents, but that the works of God may be manifested in him;

  • Mark 10:15
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    15verily I say to you, whoever may not receive the reign of God, as a child -- he may not enter into it;'

  • John 8:23
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    23and he said to them, `Ye are from beneath, I am from above; ye are of this world, I am not of this world;

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  • Job 25:4
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  • John 10:1
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    1`Verily, verily, I say to you, He who is not entering through the door to the fold of the sheep, but is going up from another side, that one is a thief and a robber;

  • Matt 3:13
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    13Then cometh Jesus from Galilee upon the Jordan, unto John to be baptized by him,

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    9every one who hath been begotten of God, sin he doth not, because his seed in him doth remain, and he is not able to sin, because of God he hath been begotten.

  • John 6:42
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    19and they asked them, saying, `Is your son, of whom ye say that he was born blind? how then now doth he see?'

  • Luke 1:18
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    18And Zacharias said unto the messenger, `Whereby shall I know this? for I am aged, and my wife is advanced in her days?'

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    26And they said to him again, `What did he to thee? how did he open thine eyes?'

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    66%

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    18verily, verily, I say to thee, When thou wast younger, thou wast girding thyself and wast walking whither thou didst will, but when thou mayest be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another will gird thee, and shall carry `thee' whither thou dost not will;'

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  • John 2:21
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    10They said, therefore, to him, `How were thine eyes opened?'

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