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3 Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a man is born from above he cannot see the kingdom of God."
4 Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter into his mother's womb a second time and be born?"
5 Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a man is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
6 What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Do not wonder that I said, 'You must be born from above.'
8 The wind blows where it will, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know whence it comes or whither it goes. So is every one who is born of the Spirit."
9 Nicodemus answered him, "How can these things be?"
10 Jesus answered him, "You are the teacher of Israel, and do you not know these things?
11 Truly, truly, I tell you, we are speaking of what we know, and we are witnessing to what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony.
12 If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
13 No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended from heaven — the Son of Man.
14 As Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
15 that every one who believes in him may have life eternal."
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son that every one who believes in him may not perish, but have life eternal.