James 1:18 Cross References - Goodspeed

¹⁸ Of his own accord he brought us into being through the message of truth, so that we might be a kind of first-fruits among his creatures.

¹³ owing their birth not to nature nor to any human or physical impulse, but to God.

³ Jesus answered him, "I tell you, no one can see the Kingdom of God unless he is born over again from above!" ⁴ Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother's womb over again and be born?" ⁵ Jesus answered, "I tell you, if a man does not owe his birth to water and spirit, he cannot get into the Kingdom of God.

¹⁷ as the Scripture says, "I have made you the father of many nations." The promise is guaranteed in the very sight of God in whom he had faith, who can bring the dead to life and call into being what does not exist.

²⁹ For those whom he had marked out from the first he predestined to be made like his Son, so that he should be the eldest of many brothers; ³⁰ and those whom he has predestined he calls, and those whom he calls he makes upright, and those whom he makes upright he glorifies. ³¹ Then what shall we conclude from this? If God is for us, who can be against us?

¹⁵ He said to Moses, "I will have mercy on the man on whom I choose to have mercy, and take pity on the man on whom I choose to take pity." ¹⁶ So it depends not on human will or exertion, but on the mercy of God. ¹⁷ The Scripture says to Pharaoh, "I have raised you to your position for the very purpose of displaying my power in dealing with you, and making my name known all over the world." ¹⁸ So he has mercy on anyone he pleases, and hardens the heart of anyone he pleases.

¹⁵ For no matter how many guides you may have in the Christian life, you will not have many fathers; for in this matter of union with Christ, I became your father, through preaching the good news to you.

¹² to win praise for his glory, by having been the first to believe in Christ.

⁴ But God is so rich in mercy that because of the great love he had for us, ⁵ he made us, dead as we were through our offenses, live again with the Christ. It is by his mercy that you have been saved.

²⁰ and through him to reconcile to God all things on earth or in heaven, making this peace through his blood shed on the cross. ²¹ And it has brought you, who were once estranged from him, hostile in attitude and engaged in doing wrong (though now he has reconciled you

¹³ We always have to thank God for you, brothers whom the Lord so loves, because God chose you from the beginning to be saved through consecration by the Spirit and through faith in the truth, ¹⁴ and called you to it through our preaching of the good news, so that you may share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

²³ to the solemn gathering of all God's elder sons, enrolled as citizens in heaven, to a judge who is the God of all, to the spirits of upright men now at last enjoying the fulfilment of their hopes,

²¹ So strip yourselves of everything that soils you, and of every evil growth, and in a humble spirit let the message that has the power to save your souls be planted in your hearts.

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has caused us to be born anew to a life of hope through Jesus Christ's resurrection from the dead,

²³ for you have been born anew from a germ not perishable, but imperishable, through the message of the living, everlasting God.

⁹ No one who is a child of God commits sin, for God's nature remains in his heart, and he cannot sin, because he is a child of God.

⁴ They are the men who have not been defiled by relations with women; they are celibates. It is they who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They have been ransomed from among men as the first-fruits for God and the Lamb,