John 3:6 Cross References

John 3:6

6: Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives new life from heaven.

Galatians 5:16

  1. So I advise you to live according to your new life in the Holy Spirit. Then you won't be doing what your sinful nature craves.
  2. The old sinful nature loves to do evil, which is just opposite from what the Holy Spirit wants. And the Spirit gives us desires that are opposite from what the sinful nature desires. These two forces are constantly fighting each other, and your choices are never free from this conflict.
  3. But when you are directed by the Holy Spirit, you are no longer subject to the law.
  4. When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, your lives will produce these evil results: sexual immorality, impure thoughts, eagerness for lustful pleasure,
  5. idolatry, participation in demonic activities, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, divisions, the feeling that everyone is wrong except those in your own little group,

Romans 8:4

  1. He did this so that the requirement of the law would be fully accomplished for us who no longer follow our sinful nature but instead follow the Spirit.
  2. Those who are dominated by the sinful nature think about sinful things, but those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit think about things that please the Spirit.
  3. If your sinful nature controls your mind, there is death. But if the Holy Spirit controls your mind, there is life and peace.
  4. For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God's laws, and it never will.
  5. That's why those who are still under the control of their sinful nature can never please God.

Ezekiel 36:26

  1. And I will give you a new heart with new and right desires, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony heart of sin and give you a new, obedient heart.
  2. And I will put my Spirit in you so you will obey my laws and do whatever I command.

2 Corinthians 5:17

  1. What this means is that those who become Christians become new persons. They are not the same anymore, for the old life is gone. A new life has begun!

1 Corinthians 6:17

  1. But the person who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.

Romans 7:18

  1. I know I am rotten through and through so far as my old sinful nature is concerned. No matter which way I turn, I can't make myself do right. I want to, but I can't.

Job 14:4

  1. Who can create purity in one born impure? No one!

Genesis 6:12

  1. God observed all this corruption in the world, and he saw violence and depravity everywhere.

1 John 3:9

  1. Those who have been born into God's family do not sin, because God's life is in them. So they can't keep on sinning, because they have been born of God.

Job 25:4

  1. How can a mere mortal stand before God and claim to be righteous? Who in all the earth is pure?

Ephesians 2:3

  1. All of us used to live that way, following the passions and desires of our evil nature. We were born with an evil nature, and we were under God's anger just like everyone else.

1 Corinthians 15:47

  1. Adam, the first man, was made from the dust of the earth, while Christ, the second man, came from heaven.
  2. Every human being has an earthly body just like Adam's, but our heavenly bodies will be just like Christ's.
  3. Just as we are now like Adam, the man of the earth, so we will someday be like Christ, the man from heaven.
  4. What I am saying, dear brothers and sisters, is that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. These perishable bodies of ours are not able to live forever.

Ezekiel 11:19

  1. And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them. I will take away their hearts of stone and give them tender hearts instead,
  2. so they will obey my laws and regulations. Then they will truly be my people, and I will be their God.

Romans 8:13

  1. For if you keep on following it, you will perish. But if through the power of the Holy Spirit you turn from it and its evil deeds, you will live.

Psalms 51:10

  1. Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

John 1:13

  1. They are reborn! This is not a physical birth resulting from human passion or plan--this rebirth comes from God.

Galatians 5:24

  1. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and crucified them there.

Colossians 2:11

  1. When you came to Christ, you were "circumcised," but not by a physical procedure. It was a spiritual procedure--the cutting away of your sinful nature.

Genesis 5:3

  1. When Adam was 130 years old, his son Seth was born, and Seth was the very image of his father.

Romans 7:5

  1. When we were controlled by our old nature, sinful desires were at work within us, and the law aroused these evil desires that produced sinful deeds, resulting in death.

Genesis 6:5

  1. Now the LORD observed the extent of the people's wickedness, and he saw that all their thoughts were consistently and totally evil.

Romans 7:25

  1. Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord. So you see how it is: In my mind I really want to obey God's law, but because of my sinful nature I am a slave to sin.
  2. So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus.

Job 15:14

  1. Can a mortal be pure? Can a human be just?
  2. Why, God doesn't even trust the angels! Even the heavens cannot be absolutely pure in his sight.
  3. How much less pure is a corrupt and sinful person with a thirst for wickedness!
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