*1.* “Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” *2* “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” *3* “Since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God.” *4* “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.”