²⁶ And I will give you ^(A)a new heart, and ^(B)a new spirit I will put within you. ^(C)And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

^19 (A)And I will give them one heart, and ^(B)a new spirit I will put within them. ^(C)I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh ^(D)and give them a heart of flesh, ^20 (E)that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them. ^(F)And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

¹⁷ Therefore, if anyone is ^(A)in Christ, he is ^(B)a new creation.^{[a] (C)}The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

³ Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is ^(A)born ^(B)again^[a] he cannot ^(C)see the kingdom of God.” ⁴ Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” ⁵ Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born ^(D)of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

⁶ And ^(A)the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, ^(B)so that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

³ And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of ^(A)the living God, not on ^(B)tablets of stone but on ^(C)tablets of ^(D)human hearts.^[a]

⁵ And ^(A)he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I ^(B)am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for ^(C)these words are trustworthy and true.”

¹⁰ For ^(A)we are his workmanship, ^(B)created in Christ Jesus ^(C)for good works, ^(D)which God prepared beforehand, ^(E)that we should walk in them.