If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

Do not marvel at this; for an hour is coming in which all those in the tombs will hear His voice

And Jesus, knowing in Himself that His disciples were murmuring about this, He said to them, "Does this offend you?

It is the Spirit who makes alive; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.

Jesus answered and said to him, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless someone is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

For who, being a mortal, [is such] that he shall be blameless? Or [who that is] born of a woman, that he should be just?

Another parable He spoke to them: "The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and mixed in with three measures of meal, until the whole was leavened."

so that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: "I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things having been hidden from the foundation of the world."

What then? Are we [any] better? Not at all. For we previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

There is none who understands; there is none who seeks God.

"Their throat is an opened grave; with their tongues they deceived"; " [the] poison of asps is under their lips";

Their feet are swift to shed blood;

And the way of peace they did not know.

Now we know that as many things as the law says, it speaks to those under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

But what if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make known His power, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath having been prepared for destruction,

even us whom He called, not only of the Jews, but also of the Gentiles?

Therefore, brothers, I exhort you through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, [which is] your intelligent service.

And do not fashion yourselves after this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and well pleasing and perfect will of God.

that you put off, concerning your former way of life, the old man which is being corrupted according to the deceitful lusts,

and that you put on the new man which was created in the likeness of God, in true righteousness and holiness.

giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light.

Pursue peace and holiness with all [people], without which no one shall see the Lord:

as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves [after] the former lusts, [as you did in] your ignorance;

because it is written, "Be holy, for I am holy."

But there shall by no means enter into it any common [thing], and the [one] doing an abomination and a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.