Joh 3:5, 15:3, 17:17, Tit 3:5, Heb 10:22, 1Jo 5:6 | ISV | STEP | Jesus answered, “Truly, truly I tell you, unless a person is born of water and Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

John 3:5

5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly I tell you, unless a person is born of water and Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ^{▼▼Other mss. read of heaven}Mark 16:16; Acts 2:38

John 15:3

3 You are already clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.John 13:10; 17:17; Eph 5:26; 1Pet 1:22

John 17:17

17 Sanctify them by the truth. Your word is truth.2Sam 7:28; Ps 119:142, 151; John 8:40; 15:3; Acts 15:9; Eph 5:26; 1Pet 1:22

Titus 3:5

5 ‘Twas not for deeds that we had done,John 3:3, 5; Rom 3:20; 9:11; 11:6; Gal 2:16; Eph 2:4, 8-9, 5; 5:26; 2Tim 1:9; 1Pet 3:21

But by his steadfast love ^{▼▼Or his mercy} alone,

He saved us through a second birth,

Renewed us by the Spirit's ^{▼▼Lit. the Holy Spirit's} work,

Hebrews 10:22

22 let us continue to come near with sincere hearts in full assurance of faith, because our hearts have been sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies have been washed with pure water.Ezek 36:25; 2Cor 7:1; Eph 3:12; Heb 4:16; 9:14; James 1:6; 1John 3:21

1 John 5:6

6 This man, Jesus Christ, is the one who came by water and blood—not with water only, but with water and with blood. The Spirit is the one who verifies this, because the Spirit is the truth.John 14:17; 15:26; 16:13; 19:34; 1Tim 3:16