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 5:16–21This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
• Ezek 36:26–27A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
• Rom 8:4–9That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
• 2 Cor 5:17Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
• 1 Cor 15:47–50The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.
• Rom 7:18For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
• 1 Cor 6:17But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
• 1 Jn 3:9Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
• Rom 8:13For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
• Gen 6:12And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
• Job 14:4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not 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 one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
• Job 25:4How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
• Col 2:11In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
• Gal 5:24And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
• Eph 2:3Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
• John 1:13Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
• Gen 6:5And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
• Rom 7:5For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
• Gen 5:3And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
• Job 15:14–16What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
• Rom 7:25I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

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