⁶ For I am certain of this very thing, that he by whom the good work was started in you will make it complete till the day of Jesus Christ:

⁵ Not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but in the measure of his mercy, he gave us salvation, through the washing of the new birth and the giving of new life in the Holy Spirit,

¹⁷ So if any man is in Christ, he is in a new world: the old things have come to an end; they have truly become new.

³ Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through his great mercy has given us a new birth and a living hope by the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead,

⁶ That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.

⁴ Anything which comes from God is able to overcome the world: and the power by which we have overcome the world is our faith.

⁷ My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.

²³ Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.

⁵ Jesus said in answer, Truly, I say to you, If a man's birth is not from water and from the Spirit, it is not possible for him to go into the kingdom of God.

² Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;

³ Jesus said to him, Truly, I say to you, Without a new birth no man is able to see the kingdom of God.