And how is it that each one of us hears them in our own native language?

But just as at that time the one born by natural descent persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, so it is now.

But reject foolish and ignorant controversies, because you know they breed infighting.

I am appealing to you concerning my child, whose spiritual father I have become during my imprisonment, that is, Onesimus,

Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter his mother’s womb and be born a second time, can he?”

When a woman gives birth, she has distress because her time has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.

Everyone who has been fathered by God does not practice sin, because God’s seed resides in him, and thus he is not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God.

We know that everyone fathered by God does not sin, but God protects the one he has fathered, and the evil one cannot touch him.

After assembling all the chief priests and experts in the law, he asked them where the Christ was to be born.

– children not born by human parents or by human desire or a husband’s decision, but by God.

that this promise God has fulfilled to us, their children, by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second psalm, ‘You are my Son; today I have fathered you.’

But one, the son by the slave woman, was born by natural descent, while the other, the son by the free woman, was born through the promise.

If you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by him.

After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, in the time of King Herod, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem

For this is certain: The days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!’

Jesus replied, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

You people are doing the deeds of your father.” Then they said to Jesus, “We were not born as a result of immorality! We have only one Father, God himself.”

His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who committed the sin that caused him to be born blind, this man or his parents?”

They asked the parents, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?”

So his parents replied, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.