Biblical Concept: Born Again
Prologue: Not many uses of born again,
but the four verses and their contexts are valuable.
Findings:
Spiritually born again is the subject.
Born of the heavenly Spirit is the subject.
The passive voice with “born” describes receiving the birth from above. The human believes-John 3:16 context-the
Spirit does.
Relationship: Born again, hope, resurrection.
Relationship: God, mercy, caused, born again.
Relationship: Born again and word of God.
Relationship: Born again and imperishable.
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NAS John 3:3 Jesus answered and said to him, "Truly,
truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of
God." (See the context of 3:8, “born of spirit” and 3:12, “heavenly
things” and 3:15-16, “eternal life.”) (Spiritually born again is the subject.)
NAS John 3:7 "Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must
be born again.' (“Born again” is: gennhqh/nai a;nwqen is literally / better: “to receive birth from
above.”) (John 3:8
"The wind
blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it
comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the
Spirit.") (Born of the heavenly Spirit
is the subject.) (The passive voice with “born” describes receiving the birth
from above. The human believes-John 3:16
context-the Spirit does.)
NAS 1 Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a
living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
(Relationship: Born again, hope, resurrection.) (Relationship: God, mercy,
caused, born again.)
NAS 1 Peter 1:23 for you have been born again not of seed which is
perishable but imperishable, that is,
through the living and abiding word of God. (Relationship: Born again and word
of God.) (Relationship: Born again and imperishable.)