5 "I tell you solemnly," Jesus answered, "that unless a man is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
6 What is born of the flesh is flesh; and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Marvel not at my telling you, You must all be born again from above.
15 I tell you true that unless a man receives the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not even enter it."
17 So there is a new creation when any man is in Christ. The old life has passed away, behold, the new is come.
11 Even so count yourselves also to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus.
12 But to all who receive him, to them he has given the right to become children of God, even to those who trust in his name;
13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
2 Like new-born babes long for the pure spiritual milk to make you grow up into salvation;
3 since you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
1 Behold what manner of love the Father has given us in allowing us to be called "Children of God!" And that is what we are. For this reason the world does not recognize us, because it did not know him.
2 We are Gods children now, beloved; what we shall be has never yet been made manifest. But we know that when he is manifested we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whose great mercy we have been born anew into a living hope, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead;
4 and into an inheritance imperishable and undefiled and fadeless, which has been kept in heaven for you
23 For you have been born anew, not of perishable, but of imperishable seed, by the living, lasting word of God.
4 We have been buried together with him, then, through baptism into his death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we should live in a newness of life.
5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, so we shall also be united with him in the likeness of his resurrection.
6 For this we know, that our old self was crucified with Christ, in order that the slave of sin might be destroyed; so that we should no longer be in slavery to sin -
7 for he who is dead is set free from sin.
22 You have learned to lay aside, with your former manner of living, the old self who was on his way to ruin, as he followed the desires which deceive;
23 and to be made new in the spirit of your mind,
24 and to put on the new self, created after Gods likeness, in the uprightness and holiness of the truth.
3 "In very truth I tell you," answered Jesus, "that unless a man is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God."
4 "How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus replied; "Can he enter a second time into his mothers womb, and be born?"
5 "I tell you solemnly," Jesus answered, "that unless a man is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
6 What is born of the flesh is flesh; and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Marvel not at my telling you, You must all be born again from above.
8 The wind blows where it wills, and you hear its voice, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with every one who has been born of the Spirit."
20 I have been crucified with Christ, so it is no longer I who am living, but it is Christ who is living in me; and the life I am now living in the flesh, I am living in faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.
9 Lie not one to another, but strip off the old self with its doings,
10 and put on that new self which is continually made over according to the likeness of its Creator, into full understanding.
11 In it that new creation there is no "Greek and Jew," "circumcised and uncircumcised," "barbarian," "Scythian," "slave," "free man," but Christ is all, and in us all.
1 At that hour his disciples came to Jesus and asked him, "Who is really greatest in the kingdom of heaven?"
2 When he had called a little child to him, Jesus set him among them, and answered.
3 "In solemn truth I tell you that unless you turn and become like little children, you will not even enter the kingdom of heaven.
4 "Whoever therefore will humble himself like this little child, is greatest in the kingdom of heaven;
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,
5 even while we were dead in our trespasses, made us live together with Christ (it is by grace you have been saved).
3 "In very truth I tell you," answered Jesus, "that unless a man is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God."
4 We have been buried together with him, then, through baptism into his death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we should live in a newness of life.
4 But when the fulness of time was come God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under law,
5 to redeem from captivity those under law, in order that we might receive our sonship.