Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.
It was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart; and all those signs happened that day.
Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
Behold, this is the joy of his way: out of the earth, others shall spring.
An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.
yet through the scent of water it will bud, and sprout boughs like a plant.
His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s. He returns to the days of his youth.
Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
Won’t you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?
who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
You send out your Spirit and they are created. You renew the face of the ground.
The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
and they will spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.
“For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things will not be remembered, nor come into mind.
“Before she travailed, she gave birth. Before her pain came, she delivered a son.
Who has heard of such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? Shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion travailed, she gave birth to her children.
Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to be delivered?” says Yahweh. “Shall I who cause to give birth shut the womb?” says your God.
When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
I will build you again, and you will be built, O virgin of Israel. You will again be adorned with your tambourines, and will go out in the dances of those who make merry.
Surely after that I was turned. I repented. After that I was instructed. I struck my thigh. I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.’
then I will also cast away the offspring of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his offspring to be rulers over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to be reversed and will have mercy on them.”
I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;
“‘“When I passed by you, and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you, ‘Though you are in your blood, live!’ Yes, I said to you, ‘Though you are in your blood, live!’
“But if the wicked turns from all his sins that he has committed, and keeps all my statutes, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live. He shall not die.
Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?
I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, even all of it. The cities will be inhabited, and the waste places will be built.
I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness, and from all your idols.
I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
They will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The waste, desolate, and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.’
Thus says the Lord Yahweh to these bones: “Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you will live.
I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you will live. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”’”
Therefore prophesy, and tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, my people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.
I will put my Spirit in you, and you will live. Then I will place you in your own land; and you will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it and performed it,” says Yahweh.’”
I won’t hide my face from them any more; for I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Israel,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”
It will happen, that every living creature which swarms, in every place where the rivers come, will live. Then there will be a very great multitude of fish; for these waters have come there, and the waters of the sea will be healed, and everything will live wherever the river comes.
It will happen, that fishermen will stand by it. From En Gedi even to En Eglaim will be a place for the spreading of nets. Their fish will be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceedingly many.
After two days he will revive us. On the third day he will raise us up, and we will live before him.
I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon.
I will bring my people Israel back from captivity, and they will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them; and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them. They shall also make gardens, and eat their fruit.
And I also, when I was born, drew in the common air, And fell upon the kindred earth, Uttering, like all, for my first voice, the selfsame wail:
to go up, and to build Jerusalem, and the temple which is called by his name: and they feasted with instruments of music and gladness seven days.
Then said I, no, Lord, that can it not. And he said to me, in the grave the chambers of souls are like the womb:
But that which keeps and that which is kept shall both be kept by your keeping: and when the womb gives up again that which has grown in it,
Neither do people put new wine into old wine skins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved.”
Most certainly I tell you, among those who are born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.
and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
I baptized you in water, but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.”
Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.”
Now the time that Elizabeth should give birth was fulfilled, and she gave birth to a son.
for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ They began to celebrate.
But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’”
But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:
who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”
Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?”
Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Don’t marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born anew.’
The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don’t know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
Nicodemus answered him, “How can these things be?”
When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit!
It will be that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.’ Joel 2:28-32
Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he received his sight. He arose and was baptized.
As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, even as on us at the beginning.
If then God gave to them the same gift as us, when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?”
He said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” They said to him, “No, we haven’t even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”
When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
came to me, and standing by me said to me, ‘Brother Saul, receive your sight!’ In that very hour I looked up at him.
May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;
knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.
Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.
For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
For, “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.” Joel 2:32
Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.
However that which is spiritual isn’t first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual.
He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
For it is written, “Rejoice, you barren who don’t bear. Break out and shout, you that don’t travail. For more are the children of the desolate than of her who has a husband.” Isaiah 54:1
For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,
even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
whom he poured out on us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior;
For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,