John 3:6 New International Version (NIV)

⁶ Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit^[a] gives birth to spirit.

Titus 3:5 New International Version (NIV)

⁵ he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit,

James 1:18 New International Version (NIV)

¹⁸ He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.

1 Peter 1:23 New International Version (NIV)

²³ For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

1 John 3:9 New International Version (NIV)

⁹ No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God.

1 John 4:7 New International Version (NIV)

God’s Love and Ours

⁷ Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

1 John 5:1 New International Version (NIV)

Faith in the Incarnate Son of God

5 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well.

1 John 5:4 New International Version (NIV)

⁴ for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.