1 Peter 1:23
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.
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1 Peter 1:23
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.
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1 Peter 1:24
For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead:
1 Peter 1:25
But the word of the Lord is eternal. And this is the word of the good news which was given to you.
Isaiah 40:8
The grass is dry, the flower is dead; but the word of our God is eternal.
Isaiah 55:11
So will my word be which goes out of my mouth: it will not come back to me with nothing done, but it will give effect to my purpose, and do that for which I have sent it.
Matthew 5:18
Truly I say to you, Till heaven and earth come to an end, not the smallest letter or part of a letter will in any way be taken from the law, till all things are done.
Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end.
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James 1:18
Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.
1 John 3:9
Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.
John 3:3
Jesus said to him, Truly, I say to you, Without a new birth no man is able to see the kingdom of God.
John 3:4
Nicodemus said to him, How is it possible for a man to be given birth when he is old? Is he able to go into his mother's body a second time and come to birth again?
John 3:5
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.
John 3:6
That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.
John 3:7
Do not be surprised that I say to you, It is necessary for you to have a second birth.
John 3:8
The wind goes where its pleasure takes it, and the sound of it comes to your ears, but you are unable to say where it comes from and where it goes: so it is with everyone whose birth is from the Spirit.
John 1:12
To all those who did so take him, however, he gave the right of becoming children of God--that is, to those who had faith in his name:
1 Corinthians 4:15
For even if you had ten thousand teachers in Christ, you have not more than one father: for in Christ Jesus I have given birth to you through the good news.
John 4:14
But whoever takes the water I give him will never be in need of drink again; for the water I give him will become in him a fountain of eternal life.
1 John 5:13
I have put these things in writing for you who have faith in the name of the Son of God, so that you may be certain that you have eternal life.
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1 Peter 1:22
And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:
1 Peter 1:3
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,
John 17:17
Make them holy by the true word: your word is the true word.
John 17:19
And for them I make myself holy, so that they may be made truly holy.
Job 17:9
Still the upright keeps on his way, and he who has clean hands gets new strength.
John 8:32
And you will have knowledge of what is true, and that will make you free.
John 15:3
You are clean, even now, through the teaching which I have given you.
Romans 8:29
Because those of whom he had knowledge before they came into existence, were marked out by him to be made like his Son, so that he might be the first among a band of brothers:
2 Corinthians 3:18
But we all, with unveiled face giving back as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord who is the Spirit.
2 Thessalonians 1:3
It is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, because of the great increase of your faith, and the wealth of your love for one another;
2 Thessalonians 2:13
But it is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, loved by the Lord, because it was the purpose of God from the first that you might have salvation, being made holy by the Spirit and by faith in what is true:
2 Peter 1:7
And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself.
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John 1:13
Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.
1 John 5:1
Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child.
1 John 2:29
If you have knowledge that he is upright, it is clear to you that everyone who does righteousness is his offspring.
1 John 5:18
We are certain that one who is a child of God will do no sin, but the Son of God keeps him so that he is not touched by the Evil One.
2 Corinthians 3:3
For you are clearly a letter of Christ, the fruit of our work, recorded not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in stone, but in hearts of flesh.
1 John 5:4
Anything which comes from God is able to overcome the world: and the power by which we have overcome the world is our faith.
John 5:24
Truly I say to you, The man whose ears are open to my word and who has faith in him who sent me, has eternal life; he will not be judged, but has come from death into life.
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Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living and full of power, and is sharper than any two-edged sword, cutting through and making a division even of the soul and the spirit, the bones and the muscles, and quick to see the thoughts and purposes of the heart.
John 6:63
The spirit is the life giver; the flesh is of no value: the words which I have said to you are spirit and they are life.
James 1:21
For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation.
1 Thessalonians 2:13
And for this cause we still give praise to God, that, when the word came to your ears through us, you took it, not as the word of man, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which has living power in you who have faith.
Romans 1:16
For I have no feeling of shame about the good news, because it is the power of God giving salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first, and then to the Greek.
Romans 10:17
So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
1 Corinthians 1:18
For the word of the cross seems foolish to those who are on the way to destruction; but to us who are on the way to salvation it is the power of God.
Psalms 19:7
The law of the Lord is good, giving new life to the soul: the witness of the Lord is certain, giving wisdom to the foolish.
Psalms 119:50
This is my comfort in my trouble; that your sayings have given me life.
Galatians 3:2
Give me an answer to this one question, Did the Spirit come to you through the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Philippians 2:16
Offering the word of life; so that I may have glory in you in the day of Christ, because my running was not for nothing and my work was not without effect.
Colossians 1:6
Which has come to you; and which in all the world is giving fruit and increase, as it has done in you from the day when it came to your ears and you had true knowledge of the grace of God;
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1 Peter 2:1
So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk,
1 Peter 2:2
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;
1 Peter 2:3
If you have had a taste of the grace of the Lord:
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Titus 3:5
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,
2 Corinthians 5:17
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.
Ephesians 5:26
So that he might make it holy, having made it clean with the washing of water by the word,
Ezekiel 36:26
And I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you: I will take away the heart of stone from your flesh, and give you a heart of flesh.
Romans 12:2
And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.
Ephesians 4:23
And be made new in the spirit of your mind,
Ephesians 4:24
And put on the new man, to which God has given life, in righteousness and a true and holy way of living.
1 Peter 3:21
And baptism, of which this is an image, now gives you salvation, not by washing clean the flesh, but by making you free from the sense of sin before God, through the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead;
Psalms 51:10
Make a clean heart in me, O God; give me a right spirit again.
1 Corinthians 6:11
And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
Galatians 6:15
For having circumcision is nothing, and not having circumcision is nothing, but only a new order of existence.
Ephesians 1:20
By which he made Christ come back from the dead, and gave him a place at his right hand in heaven,
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1 John 4:7
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.
2 Peter 1:4
And through this he has given us the hope of great rewards highly to be valued; so that by them we might have our part in God's being, and be made free from the destruction which is in the world through the desires of the flesh.
Acts 15:9
Making no division between them and us, but making clean their hearts by faith.
1 John 3:2
My loved ones, now we are children of God, and at present it is not clear what we are to be. We are certain that at his revelation we will be like him; for we will see him as he is.
1 John 3:3
And everyone who has this hope in him makes himself holy, even as he is holy.
Romans 8:17
And if we are children, we have a right to a part in the heritage; a part in the things of God, together with Christ; so that if we have a part in his pain, we will in the same way have a part in his glory.
Galatians 5:6
Because in Christ Jesus, having circumcision or not having circumcision are equally of no profit; but only faith working through love.
Ephesians 1:13
In whom you, having been given the true word, the good news of your salvation, and through your faith in him, were given the sign of the Holy Spirit of hope,
Colossians 1:5
Through the hope which is in store for you in heaven; knowledge of which was given to you before in the true word of the good news,
1 Thessalonians 1:3
Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;
Hebrews 3:1
For this reason, holy brothers, marked out to have a part in heaven, give thought to Jesus the representative and high priest of our faith;
1 John 2:27
As for you, the Spirit which he gave you is still in you, and you have no need of any teacher; but as his Spirit gives you teaching about all things, and is true and not false, so keep your hearts in him, through the teaching which he has given you.
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1 Peter 1:18
Being conscious that you have been made free from that foolish way of life which was your heritage from your fathers, not through a payment of things like silver or gold which come to destruction,
1 Peter 1:19
But through holy blood, like that of a clean and unmarked lamb, even the blood of Christ:
1 Peter 1:20
Who was marked out by God before the making of the world, but was caused to be seen in these last times for you,
1 Peter 2:22
Who did no evil, and there was no deceit in his mouth:
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1 Peter 1:12
And it was made clear to those prophets that they were God's servants not for themselves but for you, to give you word of the things which have now come to your ears from the preachers of the good news through the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven; things which even angels have a desire to see.
1 Peter 1:13
So make your minds ready, and keep on the watch, hoping with all your power for the grace which is to come to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
1 Peter 1:14
Like children ruled by God, do not go back to the old desires of the time when you were without knowledge:
1 Peter 1:4
And a heritage fair, holy and for ever new, waiting in heaven for you,
1 Peter 3:4
But let them be those of the unseen man of the heart, the ever-shining ornament of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great price in the eyes of God.
Romans 1:23
And by them the glory of the eternal God was changed and made into the image of man who is not eternal, and of birds and beasts and things which go on the earth.
1 Peter 1:21
Who through him have faith in God who took him up again from the dead into glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.
1 Peter 1:1
Peter, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, to the saints who are living in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
1 Peter 1:2
Who, through the purpose of God, have been made holy by the Spirit, disciples of Jesus, made clean by his blood: May you have grace and peace in full measure.
1 Peter 1:7
So that the true metal of your faith, being of much greater value than gold (which, though it comes to an end, is tested by fire), may come to light in praise and glory and honour, at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
Hosea 2:23
And I will put her as seed in the earth, and I will have mercy on her to whom no mercy was given; and I will say to those who were not my people, You are my people, and they will say, My God.
1 Peter 2:10
In the past you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; then there was no mercy for you, but now mercy has been given to you.
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Luke 8:11
Now this is the point of the story: The seed is the word of God.
Luke 8:12
Those by the side of the road are those who have given hearing; then the Evil One comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not have faith and get salvation.
Luke 8:13
And those on the rock are those who with joy give hearing to the word; but having no root, they have faith for a time, and when the test comes they give up.
Luke 8:14
And those which went among thorns are those who have given hearing, and go on their way, but they are overcome by cares and wealth and the pleasures of life, and they give no fruit.
Luke 8:15
And those in the good earth are those who, having given ear to the word, keep it with a good and true heart, and in quiet strength give fruit.
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1 Peter 2:4
To whom you come, as to a living stone, not honoured by men, but of great and special value to God;
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Matthew 13:19
When the word of the kingdom comes to anyone, and the sense of it is not clear to him, then the Evil One comes, and quickly takes away that which was put in his heart. He is the seed dropped by the wayside.
Mark 4:14
The seed is the word.
Mark 4:26
And he said, Such is the kingdom of God, as if a man put seed in the earth,
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1 Peter 2:5
You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.
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1 Corinthians 3:6
I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God gave the increase.
1 Corinthians 3:7
So then the planter is nothing, and the waterer is nothing; but God who gives the increase.
1 Corinthians 3:9
For we are workers with God: you are God's planting, God's building.
1 Corinthians 3:10
In the measure of the grace given to me, I, as a wise master-builder, have put the base in position, and another goes on building on it. But let every man take care what he puts on it.
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1 Peter 4:8
And most of all be warm in your love for one another; because in love there is forgiveness for sins without number:
1 John 3:14
We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death.
1 John 3:15
Anyone who has hate for his brother is a taker of life, and you may be certain that no taker of life has eternal life in him.
1 Thessalonians 4:9
But about loving the brothers, there is no need for me to say anything to you in this letter: for you have the teaching of God that love for one another is right and necessary;
1 John 3:17
But if a man has this world's goods, and sees that his brother is in need, and keeps his heart shut against his brother, how is it possible for the love of God to be in him?
1 John 3:18
My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.
1 John 3:23
And this is his law, that we have faith in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love for one another, even as he said to us.
1 John 4:20
If a man says, I have love for God, and has hate for his brother, his words are false: for how is the man who has no love for his brother whom he has seen, able to have love for God whom he has not seen?
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2 John 1:2
Because of this true knowledge which is in us, and will be with us for ever:
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2 Kings 19:29
And this will be the sign to you: you will get your food this year from what comes up of itself; and in the second year from the produce of the same; and in the third year you will put in your seed and get in the grain and make vine-gardens and take of their fruit.
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Mark 16:15
And he said to them, Go into all the world, and give the good news to everyone.
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Mark 16:16
He who has faith and is given baptism will get salvation; but he who has not faith will be judged.
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Romans 6:4
We have been placed with him among the dead through baptism into death: so that as Christ came again from the dead by the glory of the Father, we, in the same way, might be living in new life.
Ephesians 2:1
And to you did he give life, when you were dead through your wrongdoing and sins,
Ephesians 2:5
Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation),
Titus 3:6
Which he gave us freely through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
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Galatians 4:26
But the Jerusalem on high is free, which is our mother.
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Galatians 4:28
Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are the children of the undertaking of God.
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Acts 9:17
And Ananias went out and came to the house, and putting his hands on him, said, Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, whom you saw when you were on your journey, has sent me, so that you may be able to see, and be full of the Holy Spirit.
Philemon 1:16
No longer as a servant, but more than a servant, a brother, very dear to me specially, but much more to you, in the flesh as well as in the Lord.
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