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Jhn 3:6 — That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

born of the flesh		Gen 5:3; Gen 6:5,12; Job 14:4; Job 15:14-16; Job 25:4; Psa 51:10; Rom 7:5,18,25; Rom 8:1,4,5-9,13; 1Cr 15:47-49; 2Cr 5:17; Gal 5:16-21,24; Eph 2:3; Col 2:11
that		Eze 11:19,20; Eze 36:26,27; Rom 8:5,9; 1Cr 6:17; Gal 5:17; 1Jo 3:9

Correlating Passages

born of the flesh

	Gen 5:3	And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat [a son] in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
	Gen 6:5	And GOD saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the earth, and [that] every imagination of the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually.
	Gen 6:12	And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
	Job 14:4	Who can bring a clean [thing] out of an unclean? not one.
	Job 15:14	What [is] man, that he should be clean? and [he which is] born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
	Job 15:15	Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
	Job 15:16	How much more abominable and filthy [is] man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
	Job 25:4	How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean [that is] born of a woman?
	Psa 51:10	Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
	Rom 7:5	For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
	Rom 7:18	For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but [how] to perform that which is good I find not.
	Rom 7:25	I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
	Rom 8:1	[There is] therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
	Rom 8:4	That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
	Rom 8:5	For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
	Rom 8:6	For to be carnally minded [is] death; but to be spiritually minded [is] life and peace.
	Rom 8:7	Because the carnal mind [is] enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
	Rom 8:8	So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
	Rom 8:9	But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
	Rom 8:13	For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
	1Cr 15:47	The first man [is] of the earth, earthy: the second man [is] the Lord from heaven.
	1Cr 15:48	As [is] the earthy, such [are] they also that are earthy: and as [is] the heavenly, such [are] they also that are heavenly.
	1Cr 15:49	And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
	2Cr 5:17	Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
	Gal 5:16	[This] I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
	Gal 5:17	For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
	Gal 5:18	But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
	Gal 5:19	Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
	Gal 5:20	Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
	Gal 5:21	Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
	Gal 5:24	And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
	Eph 2:3	Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
	Col 2:11	In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

that

	Eze 11:19	And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
	Eze 11:20	That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
	Eze 36:26	A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
	Eze 36:27	And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do [them].
	Rom 8:5	For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
	Rom 8:9	But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
	1Cr 6:17	But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
	Gal 5:17	For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
	1Jo 3:9	Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

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