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 5:16–21But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.
• Ezek 36:26–27I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
• Rom 8:4–9that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
• 2 Cor 5:17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
• 1 Cor 15:47–50The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.
• Rom 7:18For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.
• 1 Cor 6:17But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.
• 1 Jn 3:9Whoever 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.
• Rom 8:13For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
• Gen 6:12God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on 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. Renew a right spirit within me.
• Ezek 11:19–20I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;
• Job 25:4How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
• Col 2:11in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;
• Gal 5:24Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
• Eph 2:3among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
• John 1:13who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
• Gen 6:5Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.
• Rom 7:5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.
• Gen 5:3Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
• Job 15:14–16What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who 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 God’s law, but with the flesh, the sin’s law.

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