And how is it that each one of us hears them<n id="1" /> in our own native language?<n id="2" />

But just as at that time the one born by natural descent<n id="1" /> persecuted the one born according to the Spirit,<n id="2" /> so it is now.

But reject foolish and ignorant<n id="1" /> controversies, because you know they breed infighting.<n id="2" />

I am appealing<n id="1" /> to you concerning my child, whose spiritual father I have become<n id="2" /> during my imprisonment,<n id="3" /> that is, Onesimus,

Nicodemus said to him, &#8220;How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter his mother&#8217;s womb and be born a second time, can he?&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

When a woman gives birth, she has distress<n id="1" /> because her time<n id="2" /> has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being<n id="3" /> has been born into the world.<n id="4" />

Everyone who has been fathered<n id="1" /> by God does not practice sin,<n id="2" /> because<n id="3" /> God&#8217;s<n id="4" /> seed<n id="5" /> resides in him, and thus<n id="6" /> he is not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God.

<p class="bodytext">We know that everyone fathered<n id="1" /> by God does not sin, but God<n id="2" /> protects<n id="3" /> the one he has fathered, and the evil one cannot touch him.

After assembling all the chief priests and experts in the law,<n id="1" /> he asked them where the Christ<n id="2" /> was to be born.

&#8211; children not born<n id="1" /> by human parents<n id="2" /> or by human desire<n id="3" /> or a husband&#8217;s<n id="4" /> decision,<n id="5" /> but by God.p>

that this promise<n id="1" /> God has fulfilled to us, their children, by raising<n id="2" /> Jesus, as also it is written in the second psalm, &#8216;<b><i>You are my Son;i>b><n id="3" /> <b><i>today I have fathered youi>b>.&#8217;<n id="4" />

But one, the son by the slave woman, was born by natural descent,<n id="1" /> while the other, the son by the free woman, was born through the promise.

If you know that he is righteous, you also know<n id="1" /> that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered<n id="2" /> by him.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">After Jesus was born in Bethlehem<n id="1" /> in Judea, in the time<n id="2" /> of King Herod,<n id="3" /> wise men<n id="4" /> from the East came to Jerusalem<n id="5" />

For this is certain:<n id="1" /> The days are coming when they will say, &#8216;Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!&#8217;<n id="2" />

Jesus replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;I tell you the solemn truth,<n id="2" /> unless a person is born from above,<n id="3" /> he cannot see the kingdom of God.&#8221;<n id="4" />

You people<n id="1" /> are doing the deeds of your father.&#8221;p> <p class="bodytext">Then<n id="2" /> they said to Jesus,<n id="3" /> &#8220;We were not born as a result of immorality!<n id="4" /> We have only one Father, God himself.&#8221;

His disciples asked him,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Rabbi, who committed the sin that caused him to be born blind, this man<n id="2" /> or his parents?&#8221;<n id="3" />

They asked the parents,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Is this your son, whom you say<n id="2" /> was born blind? Then how does he now see?&#8221;

So his parents replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.