John 3:7 Cross References - Lamsa

⁷ Do not be surprised because I have told you that you all must be born again.

³³ He told them another parable. The kingdom of heaven is like the leaven, which a woman took and buried in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened. ³⁴ Jesus spoke all these things to the people in parables; and without parables he did not speak to them. ³⁵ So that it might be fulfilled which was said by the prophet, who said, I will open my mouth in parables, and I will bring out secrets hidden before the foundation of the world.

³ Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, If a man is not born again,* he cannot see the kingdom of God.

¹² If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how then will you believe me, if I tell you about heavenly things?

²⁸ Do not wonder at this; for the time is coming, when all those who are in the graves will hear his voice,

⁶¹ Jesus knew in himself that his disciples were murmuring about this; so he said to them, Does this cause you to stumble? ⁶² What then if you should see the Son of man ascending to the place where he was before? ⁶³ It is the spirit that gives life; the body is of no account; the words which I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

⁹ What then do we uphold that is superior? We have already decided concerning both Jews and Syrians, for they are all under sin. ¹⁰ As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: ¹¹ There are none who understand, there are none who seek after God. ¹² They are all gone astray and they have been rejected: there are none who do good, no, not one. ¹³ Their throats are like open sepulchres; their tongues are deceitful; the venom of asps is under their lips. ¹⁴ Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness. ¹⁵ They are over-quick to shed blood. ¹⁶ Destruction and misery are in their ways. ¹⁷ They have not known the way of peace. ¹⁸ There is no fear of God before their eyes. ¹⁹ Now we know that whatever the law says, it is said to those who are under the law: so that every mouth may be shut, and all the world may become guilty before God.

²² Now then, if God wanted to shew his anger, and make his power known, would he not then, after the abundance of his patience, bring wrath upon the vessels of wrath which were ready for destruction? ²³ But he poured his mercy upon the favored vessels, which were prepared for the glory of God. ²⁴ Namely, ourselves, the called ones, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles. ²⁵ As he said also in Hosea, I will call them my people, who were not my own people; and her beloved, who was not beloved.

¹ I BESEECH you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, by means of reasonable service. ² Do not imitate the way of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, that you may discern what is that good and acceptable, and perfect will of God.

²² That you lay aside all your former practices, that is to say, the old man which is degenerated with deceitful lusts; ²³ And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; ²⁴ And that you put on the new man, who is created by God in righteousness and true holiness.

¹² So that you may joyfully give thanks to God the Father, who has enlightened us and made us worthy partakers of the inheritance of the saints;

¹⁴ Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see our LORD.

¹⁴ Like obedient children, not partakers again in those sinful desires for which you once lusted in your ignorance: ¹⁵ But be you holy in all your conduct, as he who has called you is holy; ¹⁶ Because it is written, Be you holy, even as I am holy.

²² Let your souls be sanctified by obedience to the truth, and be filled with sincere love, so that you may love one another with pure and perfect hearts:

²⁷ And there shall not enter into it anything which defiles, nor he who works abominations and lies; only those shall enter whose names are written in the LambÆs book of life.