Leviticus 11:37

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

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, 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.

so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

“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.

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

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

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

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.

Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.

Let your eyes be on the field that they reap, and go after them. Haven’t I commanded the young men not to touch you? When you are thirsty, go to the vessels, and drink from that which the young men have drawn.”

Yes, they do nothing wrong. They walk in his ways.

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

For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him and doesn’t know him.

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

I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.

for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: whoever guards his soul stays from them.

A good tree can’t produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit.

He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

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

May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

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.

but the Lord’s word endures forever.” This is the word of Good News which was preached to you.

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

I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

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

You must not offer any of these as the bread of your God from the hand of a foreigner, because their corruption is in them. There is a defect in them. They shall not be accepted for you.’ ”

As for the deeds of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.

I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.

Yahweh helps them and rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked and saves them, because they have taken refuge in him.

I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

You who love Yahweh, hate evil! He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

I have kept my feet from every evil way, that I might observe your word.

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they will feed and lie down, and no one will make them afraid.”

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

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

I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.

and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, four-footed animals, and creeping things.

But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart;” that is, the word of faith which we preach:

For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.

That which you sow, you don’t sow the body that will be, but a bare grain, maybe of wheat, or of some other kind.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

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

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

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.

unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

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.

Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

“I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.