Bible verses about "butterflies" | Moffatt

³ Jesus replied, "Truly, truly I tell you, no one can see God's Realm unless he is born from above."

¹⁶ For God loved the world so dearly that he gave up his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life, instead of perishing.

¹² Therefore, my beloved, as you have been obedient always and not simply when I was present, so, now that I am absent, work all the more strenuously at your salvation with reverence and trembling, ¹³ for it is God who in his goodwill enables you to will this and to achieve it. ¹⁴ In all that you do, avoid grumbling and disputing, ¹⁵ so as to be blameless and innocent, faultless children of God in a crooked and perverse generation where you shine like stars in a dark world;

² Instead of being moulded to this world, have your mind renewed, and so be transformed in nature, able to make out what the will of God is, namely, what is good and acceptable to him and perfect.

¹⁷ There is a new creation whenever a man comes to be in Christ; what is old is gone, the new has come.