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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Deuteronomy 29:4

Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Deuteronomy 30:6

The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Kings 8:58

May He incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways and to keep the commandments and statutes and ordinances He commanded our fathers.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 36:9

For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 51:2, 7, 10

Wash me clean of my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. / Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. / Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 65:3

When iniquities prevail against me, You atone for our transgressions.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 68:18

You have ascended on high; You have led captives away. You have received gifts from men, even from the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 87:4, 6

“I will mention Rahab and Babylon among those who know Me—along with Philistia, Tyre, and Cush—when I say, ‘This one was born in Zion.’” / The LORD will record in the register of the peoples: “This one was born in Zion.” Selah

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 110:3

Your people shall be willing on Your day of battle. Arrayed in holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn, to You belongs the dew of Your youth.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 4:23

Guard your heart with all diligence, for from it flow springs of life.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 12:28

There is life in the path of righteousness, but another path leads to death.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 14:27

The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, turning a man from the snares of death.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 16:1

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the reply of the tongue is from the LORD.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 1:16, 17, 25

Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil! / Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.” / I will turn My hand against you; I will thoroughly purge your dross; I will remove all your impurities.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 4:4

when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains from the heart of Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 12:3

With joy you will draw water from the springs of salvation,

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 26:12

O LORD, You will establish peace for us. For all that we have accomplished, You have done for us.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 29:23

For when he sees his children around him, the work of My hands, they will honor My name, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and they will stand in awe of the God of Israel.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 32:3, 4, 15, 17

Then the eyes of those who see will no longer be closed, and the ears of those who hear will listen. / The mind of the rash will know and understand, and the stammering tongue will speak clearly and fluently. / until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high. Then the desert will be an orchard, and the orchard will seem like a forest.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 35:5, 6

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped. / Then the lame will leap like a deer and the mute tongue will shout for joy. For waters will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 42:16

I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 43:7

everyone called by My name and created for My glory, whom I have indeed formed and made.”

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 44:3–5

For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring. / They will sprout among the grass like willows by flowing streams. / One will say, ‘I belong to the LORD,’ another will call himself by the name of Jacob, and still another will write on his hand, ‘The LORD’s,’ and will take the name of Israel.”

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 49:9

to say to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’ and to those in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’ They will feed along the pathways, and find pasture on every barren hill.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 55:1–3

“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost! / Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labor on that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of foods. / Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant—My loving devotion promised to David.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Jeremiah 13:23

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Neither are you able to do good—you who are accustomed to doing evil.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Jeremiah 17:13, 14

O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water. / Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved, for You are my praise.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Jeremiah 24:7

I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD. They will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with all their heart.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Jeremiah 31:3, 33, 34

The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion. / “But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people. / No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Jeremiah 32:38–40

They will be My people, and I will be their God. / I will give them one heart and one way, so that they will always fear Me for their own good and for the good of their children after them. / I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away from Me.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Jeremiah 33:6

Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Ezekiel 11:19, 20

And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh, / so that they may follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Ezekiel 16:9

Then I bathed you with water, rinsed off your blood, and anointed you with oil.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Ezekiel 18:31

Cast away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed, and fashion for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, O house of Israel?

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Ezekiel 36:26, 27, 29

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. / And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances. / I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will summon the grain and make it plentiful, and I will not bring famine upon you.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Ezekiel 37:1–14

The hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me out by His Spirit and set me down in the middle of the valley, and it was full of bones. / He led me all around among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, and indeed, they were very dry. / Then He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones come to life?” “O Lord GOD,” I replied, “only You know.”

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Ezekiel 44:7, 9

In addition to all your other abominations, you brought in foreigners uncircumcised in both heart and flesh to occupy My sanctuary; you defiled My temple when you offered My food—the fat and the blood; you broke My covenant. / This is what the Lord GOD says: No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and flesh may enter My sanctuary—not even a foreigner who lives among the Israelites.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Zechariah 12:10

Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 12:33–35, 43, 44

Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad; for a tree is known by its fruit. / You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks. / The good man brings good things out of his good store of treasure, and the evil man brings evil things out of his evil store of treasure.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 13:23, 33

But the seed sown on good soil is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and produces a crop—a hundredfold, sixtyfold, or thirtyfold.” / He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 18:3

“Truly I tell you,” He said, “unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Mark 4:20, 26–29

Still others are like the seeds sown on good soil. They hear the word, receive it, and produce a crop—thirtyfold, sixtyfold, or a hundredfold.” / Jesus also said, “The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground. / And as soon as the grain is ripe, he swings the sickle, because the harvest has come.”

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Mark 5:19, 20

But Jesus would not allow him. “Go home to your own people,” He said, “and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and what mercy He has shown you.” / So the man went away and began to proclaim throughout the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him. And everyone was amazed.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Mark 10:15

Truly I tell you, anyone who does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Luke 1:16, 17

Many of the sons of Israel he will turn back to the Lord their God. / And he will go on before the Lord in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Luke 8:35, 38, 39

So the people went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus and found the man whom the demons had left, sitting at Jesus’ feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid. / The man whom the demons had left begged to go with Jesus. But He sent him away, saying, / “Return home and describe how much God has done for you.” So the man went away and proclaimed all over the town how much Jesus had done for him.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Luke 13:21

It is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Luke 18:17

Truly I tell you, anyone who does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning John 1:4, 13, 16

In Him was life, and that life was the light of men. / children born not of blood, nor of the desire or will of man, but born of God. / From His fullness we have all received grace upon grace.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning John 3:3–8

Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.” / “How can a man be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time to be born?” / Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning John 4:10, 14

Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” / But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning John 5:24

Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning John 6:44, 45, 47, 50, 51, 57

“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day. / It is written in the Prophets: ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from Him comes to Me— / Truly, truly, I tell you, he who believes has eternal life.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning John 8:12, 32, 36

Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.” / Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” / So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning John 10:9, 10

I am the gate. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved. He will come in and go out and find pasture. / The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning John 13:8

“Never shall You wash my feet!” Peter told Him. Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no part with Me.”

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning John 15:1, 3

“I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard. / You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning John 17:2

For You granted Him authority over all people, so that He may give eternal life to all those You have given Him.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Acts 2:38, 47

Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. / praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Acts 3:26

When God raised up His Servant, He sent Him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.”

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Acts 11:17, 21

So if God gave them the same gift He gave us who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to hinder the work of God?” / The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number of people believed and turned to the Lord.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Acts 15:9

He made no distinction between us and them, for He cleansed their hearts by faith.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Acts 16:14

Among those listening was a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul’s message.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Acts 21:19

Paul greeted them and recounted one by one the things that God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Acts 26:18

to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 2:28, 29

A man is not a Jew because he is one outwardly, nor is circumcision only outward and physical. / No, a man is a Jew because he is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a man’s praise does not come from men, but from God.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 6:3–23

Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? / We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life. / For if we have been united with Him like this in His death, we will certainly also be united with Him in His resurrection.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 7:6, 24, 25

But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code. / What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? / Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 8:2–6, 9, 13–16

For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death. / For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh, / so that the righteous standard of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 12:2

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 15:16

to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Corinthians 1:9, 24, 30

God, who has called you into fellowship with His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful. / but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. / It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Corinthians 2:12, 14–16

We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. / The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. / “For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Corinthians 3:6, 7, 9

I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. / So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. / For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Corinthians 6:11

And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Corinthians 12:6, 13

There are different ways of working, but the same God works all things in all people. / For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free, and we were all given one Spirit to drink.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Corinthians 15:10

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning 2 Corinthians 1:21, 22

Now it is God who establishes both us and you in Christ. He anointed us, / placed His seal on us, and put His Spirit in our hearts as a pledge of what is to come.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning 2 Corinthians 3:3, 18

It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. / And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning 2 Corinthians 4:6

For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning 2 Corinthians 5:5, 17

And God has prepared us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a pledge of what is to come. / Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Galatians 2:20

I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Galatians 4:29

At that time, however, the son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit. It is the same now.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Galatians 6:15

For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything. What counts is a new creation.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Ephesians 2:1, 5, 8, 10

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, / made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved! / For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God,

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Ephesians 4:7, 8, 16, 21–24

Now to each one of us grace has been given according to the measure of the gift of Christ. / This is why it says: “When He ascended on high, He led captives away, and gave gifts to men.” / From Him the whole body, fitted and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love through the work of each individual part.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Ephesians 5:14

So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Philippians 1:6

being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Colossians 2:11–13

In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of your sinful nature, with the circumcision performed by Christ and not by human hands. / And having been buried with Him in baptism, you were raised with Him through your faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead. / When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Colossians 3:9, 10

Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices, / and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning 2 Thessalonians 2:13

But we should always thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning to be saved by the sanctification of the Spirit and by faith in the truth.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Titus 3:5, 6

He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit. / This is the Spirit He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Hebrews 4:1–12

Therefore, while the promise of entering His rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be deemed to have fallen short of it. / For we also received the good news just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, since they did not share the faith of those who comprehended it. / Now we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, it is just as God has said: “So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’” And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Hebrews 8:10, 11

For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people. / No longer will each one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Hebrews 10:16, 17, 22, 23

“This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts and inscribe them on their minds.” / Then He adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.” / let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning James 1:18

He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning James 5:19, 20

My brothers, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring him back, / consider this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and cover over a multitude of sins.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Peter 1:2, 3, 22, 23

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by His blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance. / Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, / Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Peter 2:3

now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.

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Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning 2 Peter 1:3, 4

His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. / Through these He has given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

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