Joh 3:5, Jam 1:18, 1Pe 1:23 | 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

James 1:18

18 In accordance with his will he made us his children by the word of truth, so that we might become the most important of his creatures. ^{▼▼Lit. a kind of first fruits among his creatures}Jer 2:3; John 1:13; 3:3; 1Cor 4:15; Eph 1:12; 1Pet 1:23; Rev 14:4

1 Peter 1:23

23 For you have been born again, not by a seed that perishes but by one that cannot perish—by the living and everlasting word of God. ^{▼▼Or by the word of the living and everlasting God}John 1:13; 3:5; James 1:18; 1John 3:9