John 3:3-16 Jesus answered and said to him, 'Verily, verily, I say to you, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'

RYLT⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ Jesus answered and said to him, 'Verily, verily, I say to you, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;' ⁴ Nicodemus said unto him, 'How is a man able to be born, being old? is he able into the womb of his mother a second time to enter, and to be born?' ⁵ Jesus answered, 'Verily, verily, I say to you, If any one may not be born of water, and the Spirit, he is not able to enter into the reign of God; ⁶ that which has been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which has been born of the Spirit is spirit. ⁷ 'You may not wonder that I said to you, It behooves you to be born from above; ⁸ the Spirit where he wills does blow, and his voice you do hear, but you have not known whence he comes, and whither he goes; thus is every one who has been born of the Spirit.' ⁹ Nicodemus answered and said to him, 'How are these things able to happen?' ¹⁰ Jesus answered and said to him, 'You art the teacher of Israel -- and these things you do not know! ¹¹ 'Verily, verily, I say to you -- What we have known we speak, and what we have seen we testify, and our testimony you do not receive; ¹² if the earthly things I said to you, and you do not believe, how, if I shall say to you the heavenly things, will you believe? ¹³ and no one has gone up to the heaven, except he who out of the heaven came down -- the Son of Man who is in the heaven. ¹⁴ 'And as Moses did lift up the serpent in the wilderness, so it behooves the Son of Man to be lifted up, ¹⁵ that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during, ¹⁶ for God did so love the world, that His Son -- the only begotten -- He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.