John 3:4

WEB

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?”

KJV

⁴Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?

BSB

⁴“^[+] How can a man be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time to be born?”

FBV

⁴“How can you be reborn when you're old?” Nicodemus asked. “You can't go back into your mother's womb and be born a second time!”

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Extra References

1 Corinthians 2:14

¹⁴Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him; and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

1 Corinthians 1:18

¹⁸For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

John 3:3

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

¹¹The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water? ¹²Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his children and his livestock?”

John 6:53

⁵³Jesus therefore said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don’t have life in yourselves.

John 6:60

⁶⁰Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?”