Regeneration

153 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.

General Scriptures Concerning

Deuteronomy 29:4 Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.
Deuteronomy 30:6 The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
1 Kings 8:58 May He incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways and to keep the commandments and statutes and ordinances He commanded our fathers.
Psalm 36:9 For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light.
Psalm 51:2 Wash me clean of my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.
Psalm 51:7 Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
Psalm 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
Psalm 65:3 When iniquities prevail against me, You atone for our transgressions.
Psalm 68:18 You have ascended on high; You have led captives away. You have received gifts from men, even from the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there.
Psalm 87:4 “I will mention Rahab and Babylon among those who know Me — along with Philistia, Tyre, and Cush — when I say, ‘This one was born in Zion.’”
Psalm 87:6 The LORD will record in the register of the peoples: “This one was born in Zion.” Selah
Psalm 110:3 Your people shall be willing on Your day of battle. Arrayed in holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn, to You belongs the dew of Your youth.
Proverbs 4:23 Guard your heart with all diligence, for from it flow springs of life.
Proverbs 12:28 There is life in the path of righteousness, but another path leads to death.
Proverbs 14:27 The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, turning a man from the snares of death.
Proverbs 16:1 The plans of the heart belong to man, but the reply of the tongue is from the LORD.
Isaiah 1:16–17 Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil! …
Isaiah 1:25 I will turn My hand against you; I will thoroughly purge your dross; I will remove all your impurities.
Isaiah 4:4 when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains from the heart of Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.
Isaiah 12:3 With joy you will draw water from the springs of salvation,
Isaiah 26:12 O LORD, You will establish peace for us. For all that we have accomplished, You have done for us.
Isaiah 29:23 For when he sees his children around him, the work of My hands, they will honor My name, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and they will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
Isaiah 32:3–4 Then the eyes of those who see will no longer be closed, and the ears of those who hear will listen. …
Isaiah 32:15 until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high. Then the desert will be an orchard, and the orchard will seem like a forest.
Isaiah 32:17 The work of righteousness will be peace; the service of righteousness will be quiet confidence forever.
Isaiah 35:5–6 Then the eyes of the blind will be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped. …
Isaiah 42:16 I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.
Isaiah 43:7 everyone called by My name and created for My glory, whom I have indeed formed and made.”
Isaiah 44:3–5 For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring. …
Isaiah 49:9 to say to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’ and to those in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’ They will feed along the pathways, and find pasture on every barren hill.
Isaiah 55:1–3 “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost! …
Jeremiah 13:23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Neither are you able to do good — you who are accustomed to doing evil.
Jeremiah 17:13–14 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water. …
Jeremiah 24:7 I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD. They will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with all their heart.
Jeremiah 31:3 The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.
Jeremiah 31:33–34 “But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people. …
Jeremiah 32:38–40 They will be My people, and I will be their God. …
Jeremiah 33:6 Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.
Ezekiel 11:19–20 And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh, …
Ezekiel 16:9 Then I bathed you with water, rinsed off your blood, and anointed you with oil.
Ezekiel 18:31 Cast away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed, and fashion for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, O house of Israel?
Ezekiel 36:26–27 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. …
Ezekiel 36:29 I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will summon the grain and make it plentiful, and I will not bring famine upon you.
Ezekiel 37:1–14 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me out by His Spirit and set me down in the middle of the valley, and it was full of bones. …
Ezekiel 44:7 In addition to all your other abominations, you brought in foreigners uncircumcised in both heart and flesh to occupy My sanctuary; you defiled My temple when you offered My food— the fat and the blood; you broke My covenant.
Ezekiel 44:9 This is what the Lord GOD says: No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and flesh may enter My sanctuary — not even a foreigner who lives among the Israelites.
Zechariah 12:10 Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve …
Matthew 12:33–35 Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is known by its fruit. …
Matthew 12:43–44 When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it passes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. …
Matthew 13:23 But the seed sown on good soil is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and produces a crop — a hundredfold, sixtyfold, or thirtyfold.”
Matthew 13:33 He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”
Matthew 18:3 “Truly I tell you,” He said, “unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Mark 4:20 Still others are like the seeds sown on good soil. They hear the word, receive it, and produce a crop — thirtyfold, sixtyfold, or a hundredfold.”
Mark 4:26–29 Jesus also said, “The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground. …
Mark 5:19–20 But Jesus would not allow him. “Go home to your own people,” He said, “and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and what mercy He has shown you.” …
Mark 10:15 Truly I tell you, anyone who does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”
Luke 1:16–17 Many of the sons of Israel he will turn back to the Lord their God. …
Luke 8:35 So the people went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus and found the man whom the demons had left, sitting at Jesus’ feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.
Luke 8:38–39 The man whom the demons had left begged to go with Jesus. But He sent him away, saying, …
Luke 13:21 It is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”
Luke 18:17 Truly I tell you, anyone who does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”
John 1:4 In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.
John 1:13 children born not of blood, nor of the desire or will of man, but born of God.
John 1:16 From His fullness we have all received grace upon grace.
John 3:3–8 Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.” …
John 4:10 Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
John 4:14 But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”
John 5:24 Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.
John 6:44–45 “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day. …
John 6:47 Truly, truly, I tell you, he who believes has eternal life.
John 6:50–51 This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die. …
John 6:57 Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.
John 8:12 Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
John 8:32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
John 8:36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
John 10:9–10 I am the gate. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved. He will come in and go out and find pasture. …
John 13:8 “Never shall You wash my feet!” Peter told Him. Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no part with Me.”
John 15:1 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.
John 15:3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
John 17:2 For You granted Him authority over all people, so that He may give eternal life to all those You have given Him.
Acts 2:38 Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 2:47 praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.
Acts 3:26 When God raised up His Servant, He sent Him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.”
Acts 11:17 So if God gave them the same gift He gave us who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to hinder the work of God?”
Acts 11:21 The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number of people believed and turned to the Lord.
Acts 15:9 He made no distinction between us and them, for He cleansed their hearts by faith.
Acts 16:14 Among those listening was a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul’s message.
Acts 21:19 Paul greeted them and recounted one by one the things that God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.
Acts 26:18 to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’
Romans 2:28–29 A man is not a Jew because he is one outwardly, nor is circumcision only outward and physical. …
Romans 6:3–23 Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? …
Romans 7:6 But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
Romans 7:24–25 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? …
Romans 8:2–6 For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death. …
Romans 8:9 You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.
Romans 8:13–16 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. …
Romans 12:2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.
Romans 15:16 to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 1:9 God, who has called you into fellowship with His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.
1 Corinthians 1:24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
1 Corinthians 1:30 It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.
1 Corinthians 2:12 We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.
1 Corinthians 2:14–16 The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. …
1 Corinthians 3:6–7 I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. …
1 Corinthians 3:9 For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
1 Corinthians 6:11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
1 Corinthians 12:6 There are different ways of working, but the same God works all things in all people.
1 Corinthians 12:13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free, and we were all given one Spirit to drink.
1 Corinthians 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them — yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
2 Corinthians 1:21–22 Now it is God who establishes both us and you in Christ. He anointed us, …
2 Corinthians 3:3 It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
2 Corinthians 3:18 And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
2 Corinthians 4:6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:5 And it is God who has prepared us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a pledge of what is to come.
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
Galatians 4:29 At that time, however, the son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit. It is the same now.
Galatians 6:15 For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything. What counts is a new creation.
Ephesians 2:1 And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
Ephesians 2:5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!
Ephesians 2:8 For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God,
Ephesians 2:10 For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
Ephesians 4:7–8 Now to each one of us grace has been given according to the measure of the gift of Christ. …
Ephesians 4:16 From Him the whole body, fitted and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love through the work of each individual part.
Ephesians 4:21–24 Surely you heard of Him and were taught in Him— in keeping with the truth that is in Jesus— …
Ephesians 5:14 So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
Philippians 1:6 being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
Colossians 2:11–13 In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of your sinful nature, with the circumcision performed by Christ and not by human hands. …
Colossians 3:9–10 Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices, …
2 Thessalonians 2:13 But we should always thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning to be saved by the sanctification of the Spirit and by faith in the truth.
Titus 3:5–6 He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit. …
Hebrews 4:1–12 Therefore, while the promise of entering His rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be deemed to have fallen short of it. …
Hebrews 8:10–11 For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people. …
Hebrews 10:16–17 “This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts and inscribe them on their minds.” …
Hebrews 10:22–23 let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. …
James 1:18 He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.
James 5:19–20 My brothers, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring him back, …
1 Peter 1:2–3 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by His blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance. …
1 Peter 1:22–23 Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart. …
1 Peter 2:3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.
2 Peter 1:3–4 His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. …
1 John 2:27 And as for you, the anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But just as His true and genuine anointing teaches you about all things, so remain in Him as you have been taught.
1 John 2:29 If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.
1 John 3:9 Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.
1 John 3:14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.
1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
1 John 5:1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves those born of Him.
1 John 5:4–5 because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith. …
1 John 5:11–12 And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. …
1 John 5:18 We know that anyone born of God does not keep on sinning; the One who was born of God protects him, and the evil one cannot touch him.

Jacob

Genesis 32:29 And Jacob requested, “Please tell me your name.” But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed Jacob there.

King Saul

1 Samuel 10:9 As Saul turned to leave Samuel, God changed Saul’s heart, and all the signs came to pass that day.

Saul of Tarsus

Acts 9:3–18 As Saul drew near to Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. …

Regeneration

General Scriptures Concerning

Jacob

King Saul

Saul of Tarsus

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