John 3:6 Cross References - Goodspeed

⁶ Whatever owes its birth to the physical is physical, and whatever owes its birth to the Spirit is spiritual.

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

⁵ For when we were living mere physical lives the sinful passions, awakened by the Law, operated through the organs of our bodies to make us bear fruit for death.

¹⁸ For I know that nothing good resides in me, that is, in my physical self; I can will, but I cannot do what is right.

²⁵ Thank God! it is done through Jesus Christ our Lord! So mentally I am a slave to God's law, but physically to the law of sin.

⁴ so that the requirement of the Law might be fully met in our case, since we live not on the physical but on the spiritual plane. ⁵ People who are controlled by the physical think of what is physical, and people who are controlled by the spiritual think of what is spiritual. ⁶ For to be physically minded means death, but to be spiritually minded means life and peace. ⁷ For to be physically minded means hostility to God, for it refuses to obey God's law, indeed it cannot obey it. ⁸ Those who are physical cannot please God. ⁹ But you are not physical but spiritual, if God's Spirit has really taken possession of you; for unless a man has Christ's spirit, he does not belong to Christ.

¹³ for if you live under the control of the physical you will die, but if, by means of the Spirit, you put the body's doings to death, you will live.

¹⁷ But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.

⁴⁷ The first man is of the dust of the earth; the second man is from heaven. ⁴⁸ Those who are of the earth are like him who was of the earth, and those who are of heaven are like him who is from heaven, ⁴⁹ and as we have been like the man of the earth, let us also try to be like the man from heaven. ⁵⁰ But I can tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot share in the Kingdom of God, and decay will not share in what is imperishable.

¹⁷ So if anyone is in union with Christ, he is a new being; the old state of things has passed away; there is a new state of things.

¹⁶ I mean this: Live by the Spirit, and then you will not indulge your physical cravings. ¹⁷ For the physical cravings are against the Spirit, and the cravings of the Spirit are against the physical; the two are in opposition, so that you cannot do anything you please. ¹⁸ But if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not subject to law. ¹⁹ The things our physical nature does are clear enough—immorality, impurity, licentiousness, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, enmity, quarreling, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, party-spirit, ²¹ envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you as I did before that people who do such things will have no share in the Kingdom of God.

²⁴ Those who belong to Jesus the Christ have crucified the physical nature with its propensities and cravings.

³ We all lived among them once, indulging our physical cravings and obeying the impulses of our lower nature and its thoughts, and by nature we were doomed to God's wrath like other men.

¹¹ Through your relation to him you have received not a physical circumcision, but a circumcision effected by Christ, in stripping you of your material nature,

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.