6That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
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This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. …
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. …
That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. …
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-21)We found, in the close of the foregoing chapter, that few were brought to Christ at Jerusalem; yet here was one , a considerable one. It is worth while to go a great way for the salvation though but of one soul . Observe, I. Who this Nicodemus was. Not many mighty and noble are called; yet some are, and here was one. Not many of the rulers, or of the Pharisees ; yet. 1. This was a man of the Phari…
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