John 3:6

Flesh produces only flesh, and Spirit produces spirit; natural birth cannot generate spiritual life. A different order of life must come from God himself.

Cross-references · 23

• Gal 5:16–21So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
• Ezek 36:26–27I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
• Rom 8:4–9so that the righteous standard of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
• 2 Cor 5:17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
• 1 Cor 15:47–50The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven.
• Rom 7:18I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
• 1 Cor 6:17But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit.
• 1 Jn 3:9Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.
• Rom 8:13For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
• Gen 6:12And God looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had corrupted their ways.
• Job 14:4Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
• Ps 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
• Ezek 11:19–20And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh,
• Job 25:4How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
• Col 2:11In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of your sinful nature, with the circumcision performed by Christ and not by human hands.
• Gal 5:24Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
• Eph 2:3All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.
• John 1:13children born not of blood, nor of the desire or will of man, but born of God.
• Gen 6:5Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.
• Rom 7:5For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.
• Gen 5:3When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son in his own likeness, after his own image; and he named him Seth.
• Job 15:14–16What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
• Rom 7:25Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

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