since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
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.
Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
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.
but the word of the Lord remains forever.” And this word is the good news that was preached to you.
All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Let the prophet who has a dream tell the dream, but let him who has my word speak my word faithfully. What has straw in common with wheat? declares the Lord.
and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
Behold, I will rebuke your offspring, and spread dung on your faces, the dung of your offerings, and you shall be taken away with it.
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