1 John 2:29

³Jesus answered him, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born anew, ^[+] he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

⁴Nicodemus 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?”

⁵Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and Spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom.

⁷Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

¹³who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

¹Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.

⁷Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

⁹Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is born of God. ¹⁰In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.

¹⁸Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

³⁵but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.

⁴For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

¹⁸Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,