²⁶ Moreover, I will give you a ^(A)new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the ^(B)heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. ²⁷ I will ^(C)put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances.

³ Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one ^(A)is born ^[a]again he cannot see ^(B)the kingdom of God.”

Made Alive in Christ

2 And you ^[a]were ^(A)dead ^[b]in your trespasses and sins, ² in which you ^(B)formerly walked according to the ^[c]course of ^(C)this world, according to ^(D)the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in ^(E)the sons of disobedience. ³ Among them we too all ^(F)formerly lived in ^(G)the lusts of our flesh, ^[d]indulging the desires of the flesh and of the ^[e]mind, and were ^(H)by nature ^(I)children of wrath, ^(J)even as the rest.

⁴ But God, being ^(A)rich in mercy, because of ^(B)His great love with which He loved us, ⁵ even when we were ^(C)dead ^[a]in our transgressions, made us alive together ^[b]with Christ (^(D)by grace you have been saved),

^5 (A)He saved us, ^(B)not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but ^(C)according to His mercy, by the ^(D)washing of regeneration and ^(E)renewing by the Holy Spirit,