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.)

 

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