John 3:3-5

Living Bible

³ Jesus replied, “With all the earnestness I possess I tell you this: Unless you are born again, you can never get into the Kingdom of God.”

⁴ “Born again!” exclaimed Nicodemus. “What do you mean? How can an old man go back into his mother’s womb and be born again?”

⁵ Jesus replied, “What I am telling you so earnestly is this: Unless one is born of water and the Spirit,^[a] he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.