John 3:3-18

³“I tell you the truth,” Jesus replied, “Unless you are reborn, you can't experience God's kingdom.”

⁴“How can you be reborn when you're old?” Nicodemus asked. “You can't go back into your mother's womb and be born a second time!”

⁵“I tell you the truth, you can't enter God's kingdom unless you are born of water and the Spirit,” Jesus told him.

⁶“What's born of the flesh is flesh, and what's born of the Spirit is Spirit.

⁷Don't be surprised at my telling you, ‘You must be reborn.’

⁸The wind blows wherever it wants, and just as you hear the sound it makes, but don't know where it's coming from or where it's going, that's how it is for everyone who is born of the spirit.”

⁹“How is this possible?” Nicodemus asked.

¹⁰“You're a famous teacher in Israel, and yet you don't understand such things?” Jesus replied.

¹¹“I tell you the truth, we speak of what we know and give evidence regarding what we have seen, but you refuse to accept our testimony.

¹²If you don't trust what I say when I tell you about earthly things, how would you ever trust what I say if I were to tell you about heavenly things?

¹³No one has gone up to heaven, but the Son of man came down from heaven.

¹⁴Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so the Son of man must be lifted up,

¹⁵that everyone who trusts in him will have eternal life.

¹⁶For God loved the world, and this is how: he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who trusts in him shouldn't die, but have eternal life.

¹⁷God didn't send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

¹⁸Those who trust in him are not condemned, while those who don't trust in him are condemned already because they didn't trust in the one and only Son of God.