Bible Verses About Man: Spirit

“Yes, indeed,” Yeshua answered him, “I tell you that unless a person is born again from above, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.”

Nakdimon said to him, “How can a grown man be ‘born’? Can he go back into his mother’s womb and be born a second time?”

Yeshua answered, “Yes, indeed, I tell you that unless a person is born from water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.

What is born from the flesh is flesh, and what is born from the Spirit is spirit.

Stop being amazed at my telling you that you must be born again from above!

The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but you don’t know where it comes from or where it’s going. That’s how it is with everyone who has been born from the Spirit.”

For we know that the Torah is of the Spirit; but as for me, I am bound to the old nature, sold to sin as a slave.

I don’t understand my own behavior — I don’t do what I want to do; instead, I do the very thing I hate!

Now if I am doing what I don’t want to do, I am agreeing that the Torah is good.

But now it is no longer “the real me” doing it, but the sin housed inside me.

For I know that there is nothing good housed inside me — that is, inside my old nature. I can want what is good, but I can’t do it!

For I don’t do the good I want; instead, the evil that I don’t want is what I do!

But if I am doing what “the real me” doesn’t want, it is no longer “the real me” doing it but the sin housed inside me.

So I find it to be the rule, a kind of perverse “torah,” that although I want to do what is good, evil is right there with me!

For in my inner self I completely agree with God’s Torah;

but in my various parts, I see a different “torah,” one that battles with the Torah in my mind and makes me a prisoner of sin’s “torah,” which is operating in my various parts.

What a miserable creature I am! Who will rescue me from this body bound for death?

Thanks be to God [, he will]! — through Yeshua the Messiah, our Lord! To sum up: with my mind, I am a slave of God’s Torah; but with my old nature, I am a slave of sin’s “Torah.”

For it is the God who once said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” who has made his light shine in our hearts, the light of the knowledge of God’s glory shining in the face of the Messiah Yeshua.

But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that it will be evident that such overwhelming power comes from God and not from us.

We know that when the tent which houses us here on earth is torn down, we have a permanent building from God, a building not made by human hands, to house us in heaven.

For in this tent, our earthly body, we groan with desire to have around us the home from heaven that will be ours.

With this around us we will not be found naked.

Yes, while we are in this body, we groan with the sense of being oppressed: it is not so much that we want to take something off, but rather to put something on over it; so that what must die may be swallowed up by the Life.

Moreover, it is God who has prepared us for this very thing, and as a pledge he has given us his Spirit.