No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God.
We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.
since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;
who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.
For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit.
By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard.”
in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began
If you say, ‘How we will pursue him!’ and, ‘The root of the matter is found in him,’
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