⁷ Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born anew.

³ Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

²² that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

²³ and that ye be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

²⁴ and put on the new man, that after God hath been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

²⁷ and there shall in no wise enter into it anything unclean, or he that maketh an abomination and a lie: but only they that are written in the Lamb's book of life.

²² Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently:

²⁸ Marvel not at this: for the hour cometh, in which all that are in the tombs shall hear his voice,

³³ Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.

³⁴ All these things spake Jesus in parables unto the multitudes; and without a parable spake he nothing unto them:

³⁵ that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.

¹⁴ as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in `the time of' your ignorance:

¹⁵ but like as he who called you is holy, be ye yourselves also holy in all manner of living;

¹⁶ because it is written, Ye shall be holy; for I am holy.

¹⁴ Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord:

¹² giving thanks unto the Father, who made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;

¹ I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, `which is' your spiritual service.

² And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, and ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

²² What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted unto destruction:

²³ and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he afore prepared unto glory,

²⁴ `even' us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?

²⁵ As he saith also in Hosea, I will call that my people, which was not my people; And her beloved, that was not beloved.

⁹ What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we before laid to the charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin;

¹⁰ as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one;

¹¹ There is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after God;

¹² They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable; There is none that doeth good, no, not, so much as one:

¹³ Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:

¹⁴ Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

¹⁵ Their feet are swift to shed blood;

¹⁶ Destruction and misery are in their ways;

¹⁷ And the way of peace have they not known:

¹⁸ There is no fear of God before their eyes.

¹⁹ Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God:

⁶¹ But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said unto them, Doth this cause you to stumble?

⁶² `What' then if ye should behold the Son of man ascending where he was before?

⁶³ It is the spirit that giveth life; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, are are life.

¹² If I told you earthly things and ye believe not, how shall ye believe if I tell you heavenly things?

¹⁴ What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?