³⁷ If the carcass falls on seed grain to be planted in the field, the seed will still be considered clean.

¹⁸ We know that God’s children do not make a practice of sinning, for God’s Son holds them securely, and the evil one cannot touch them.

⁹ Those who have been born into God’s family do not make a practice of sinning, because God’s life^[a] is in them. So they can’t keep on sinning, because they are children of God.

²³ For you have been born again, but not to a life that will quickly end. Your new life will last forever because it comes from the eternal, living word of God.

³⁷ And what you put in the ground is not the plant that will grow, but only a bare seed of wheat or whatever you are planting.