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. That which is born of the flesh is
flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must
be born again.’ 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.”
Nicodemus said to him, “How can these things be?” Jesus
answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand
these things? Truly, truly, I say to
you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do
not receive our testimony. If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how
can you believe if I tell you heavenly things? No one has ascended into heaven except
he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in
the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have
eternal life.
“For God so loved the
world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not
perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the
world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not
condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has
not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment: the light
has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light
because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not
come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to
the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out
in God.”
God loves you. Believe in
the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved today.
* https://biblehub.com/esv/john/3.htm
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