If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of Him.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him.

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world -- our faith.

We know that whoever is born of God does not sin; but he who has been born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him.

who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

If you should say, 'How shall we persecute him?' -- Since the root of the matter is found in me,

having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever,

"A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor [can] a bad tree bear good fruit.

"For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard."

Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.

in hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began,