LE: John 3:5 NKJV

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For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.

He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only-begotten Son of God.

You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one!

Whoever believes in the Son [Jesus Christ] has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

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Born of water and the Spirit

John 3:5 NKJV

Jesus answered, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God."

Being born of water is a given for any person because it means a person is physically born (its nothing to do with baptism); the Jewish idiom is clear. But Jesus goes much much further - in keeping with the theme of the discourse of this passage - one needs to be born of the Holy Spirit to enter the kindom of God, and this takes place when one believes in the one and only Son of God (John 3:16). Every human is born spiritually dead; thus each person needs to be regenerated (born again) to be made a live (John 6:44, 65; Romans 8:8). Regeneration requires being born of God which is where the Holy Spirit comes in. Indeed the agent of new birth is the Holy Spirit.

The Apostle John [Bible author]
John 3:5 NKJV
Posted: 10 Aug 2024

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