John 3:7 Cross References

John 3:7

7: So don't be surprised at my statement that you must be born again.

Jesus replied, "I assure you, unless you are born again, you can never see the Kingdom of God."

throw off your old evil nature and your former way of life, which is rotten through and through, full of lust and deception.
Instead, there must be a spiritual renewal of your thoughts and attitudes.
You must display a new nature because you are a new person, created in God's likeness--righteous, holy, and true.

Nothing evil will be allowed to enter--no one who practices shameful idolatry and dishonesty--but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.

Now you can have sincere love for each other as brothers and sisters because you were cleansed from your sins when you accepted the truth of the Good News. So see to it that you really do love each other intensely with all your hearts.

Jesus also used this illustration: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast used by a woman making bread. Even though she used a large amount of flour, the yeast permeated every part of the dough."
Jesus always used stories and illustrations like these when speaking to the crowds. In fact, he never spoke to them without using such parables.
This fulfilled the prophecy that said, "I will speak to you in parables. I will explain mysteries hidden since the creation of the world."

And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice--the kind he will accept. When you think of what he has done for you, is this too much to ask?
Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will know what God wants you to do, and you will know how good and pleasing and perfect his will really is.

Don't be so surprised! Indeed, the time is coming when all the dead in their graves will hear the voice of God's Son,

always thanking the Father, who has enabled you to share the inheritance that belongs to God's holy people, who live in the light.

Try to live in peace with everyone, and seek to live a clean and holy life, for those who are not holy will not see the Lord.

Jesus knew within himself that his disciples were complaining, so he said to them, "Does this offend you?
Then what will you think if you see me, the Son of Man, return to heaven again?
It is the Spirit who gives eternal life. Human effort accomplishes nothing. And the very words I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

But if you don't even believe me when I tell you about things that happen here on earth, how can you possibly believe if I tell you what is going on in heaven?

God has every right to exercise his judgment and his power, but he also has the right to be very patient with those who are the objects of his judgment and are fit only for destruction.
He also has the right to pour out the riches of his glory upon those he prepared to be the objects of his mercy--
even upon us, whom he selected, both from the Jews and from the Gentiles.
Concerning the Gentiles, God says in the prophecy of Hosea, "Those who were not my people, I will now call my people. And I will love those whom I did not love before."

Well then, are we Jews better than others? No, not at all, for we have already shown that all people, whether Jews or Gentiles, are under the power of sin.
As the Scriptures say, "No one is good--not even one.
No one has real understanding; no one is seeking God.
All have turned away from God; all have gone wrong. No one does good, not even one."
"Their talk is foul, like the stench from an open grave. Their speech is filled with lies.The poison of a deadly snake drips from their lips."

Obey God because you are his children. Don't slip back into your old ways of doing evil; you didn't know any better then.
But now you must be holy in everything you do, just as God--who chose you to be his children--is holy.
For he himself has said, "You must be holy because I am holy."

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