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100 Bible Verses about Regeneration

Titus 3:5 ESV / 301 helpful votes

He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

Ezekiel 36:26 ESV / 193 helpful votes

And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

John 3:5 ESV / 153 helpful votes

Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 152 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

1 Peter 1:23 ESV / 149 helpful votes

Since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;

1 John 3:9 ESV / 129 helpful votes

No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God.

John 5:24 ESV / 109 helpful votes

Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

John 3:1-36 ESV / 102 helpful votes

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ...

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 96 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

John 3:3 ESV / 87 helpful votes

Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Ephesians 2:1 ESV / 77 helpful votes

And you were dead in the trespasses and sins

1 John 5:1 ESV / 74 helpful votes

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.

Matthew 19:28 ESV / 72 helpful votes

Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, in the new world, when the Son of Man will sit on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

James 1:18 ESV / 69 helpful votes

Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

John 3:7 ESV / 68 helpful votes

Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 64 helpful votes

The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

1 John 5:4 ESV / 61 helpful votes

For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.

John 1:13 ESV / 60 helpful votes

Who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

John 3:8 ESV / 59 helpful votes

The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

1 John 3:14 ESV / 56 helpful votes

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 54 helpful votes

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

John 6:44 ESV / 54 helpful votes

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

John 3:16 ESV / 54 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

1 Corinthians 6:11 ESV / 53 helpful votes

And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

1 John 2:29 ESV / 52 helpful votes

If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

Romans 6:6 ESV / 52 helpful votes

We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

John 3:6 ESV / 52 helpful votes

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

1 Peter 1:3 ESV / 50 helpful votes

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 49 helpful votes

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

1 Corinthians 12:13 ESV / 49 helpful votes

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 48 helpful votes

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Philippians 1:6 ESV / 47 helpful votes

And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 47 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Romans 8:15 ESV / 46 helpful votes

For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

Colossians 3:10 ESV / 45 helpful votes

And have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.

John 10:10 ESV / 45 helpful votes

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

John 6:63 ESV / 41 helpful votes

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

Ezekiel 11:19-20 ESV / 41 helpful votes

And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh, that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

1 John 1:8 ESV / 39 helpful votes

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Ephesians 5:26 ESV / 38 helpful votes

That he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,

1 Peter 1:2 ESV / 37 helpful votes

According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you.

Romans 3:28 ESV / 36 helpful votes

For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.

1 John 5:18 ESV / 35 helpful votes

We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.

2 Corinthians 5:5 ESV / 35 helpful votes

He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11 ESV / 35 helpful votes

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Acts 16:31 ESV / 35 helpful votes

And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

Ezekiel 11:19 ESV / 35 helpful votes

And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,

1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—

Ephesians 1:14 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.

1 Corinthians 2:12 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.

Romans 10:17 ESV / 34 helpful votes

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Romans 8:7 ESV / 34 helpful votes

For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.

Acts 3:21 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago.

Psalm 51:10 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

1 John 3:10 ESV / 33 helpful votes

By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.

1 Peter 3:18 ESV / 33 helpful votes

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,

1 Peter 1:15-16 ESV / 33 helpful votes

But as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

Hebrews 6:4-6 ESV / 33 helpful votes

For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt.

1 Corinthians 1:30 ESV / 33 helpful votes

And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 32 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

1 John 4:7 ESV / 32 helpful votes

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

1 John 3:5 ESV / 32 helpful votes

You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.

Hebrews 8:10 ESV / 32 helpful votes

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Ephesians 4:21-24 ESV / 32 helpful votes

Assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

Ephesians 4:18 ESV / 32 helpful votes

They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.

Galatians 4:6 ESV / 32 helpful votes

And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”

Galatians 6:15 ESV / 31 helpful votes

For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

John 15:3 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.

Psalm 51:2 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!

Ephesians 2:6 ESV / 30 helpful votes

And raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

Hebrews 10:5 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, “Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me;

Ephesians 2:5 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

John 6:47 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.

John 3:5-6 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

John 1:12 ESV / 29 helpful votes

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

Jeremiah 24:7 ESV / 29 helpful votes

I will give them a heart to know that I am the Lord, and they shall be my people and I will be their God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart.

1 Corinthians 3:3 ESV / 28 helpful votes

For you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?

John 3:1-8 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ...

Jeremiah 32:38-40 ESV / 27 helpful votes

And they shall be my people, and I will be their God. I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their own good and the good of their children after them. I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. And I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me.

Jeremiah 31:34 ESV / 27 helpful votes

And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

Jeremiah 13:23 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then also you can do good who are accustomed to do evil.

2 Peter 1:4 ESV / 26 helpful votes

By which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.

Jeremiah 32:40 ESV / 26 helpful votes

I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. And I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me.

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 25 helpful votes

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

2 Corinthians 7:1 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Matthew 18:3 ESV / 25 helpful votes

And said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 13:23 ESV / 25 helpful votes

As for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.”

Isaiah 55:1-3 ESV / 25 helpful votes

“Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food. Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.

John 3:4 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?”

Matthew 12:33-35 ESV / 24 helpful votes

“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit. You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil.

Zechariah 12:10 ESV / 24 helpful votes

“And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.

John 1:16 ESV / 23 helpful votes

For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.

1 Peter 3:21 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Hebrews 10:22 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

1 Corinthians 12:3 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit.

1 Peter 2:3 ESV / 15 helpful votes

If indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.

2 Peter 1:3 ESV / 14 helpful votes

His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,

James 5:19 ESV / 14 helpful votes

My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back,

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