The New Birth
43 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
32 sections
- A New Creation
- A New Heart
- A New Spirit
- A Spiritual Resurrection
- All Saints Partake of
- Circumcision of the Heart
- Connected with Adoption
- Effected by Christ
- Effected by God
- Effected by The Holy Spirit
- Evidenced by Brotherly Love
- Evidenced by Faith in Christ
- Evidenced by Righteousness
- Manner of Effecting – Illustrated
- Newness of Life
- None Can Enter Heaven Without
- Partaking of the Divine Nature
- Preserves from Satan's Devices
- Produces Delight in God's Law
- Produces Hatred of Sin
- Produces Knowledge of God
- Produces Likeness to Christ
- Produces Likeness to God
- Produces Victory Over the World
- Putting on the New Man
- The Corruption of Human Nature Requires
- The Ignorant Cavil At
- The Inward Man
- The Washing of Regeneration
- Through the Instrumentality of The Ministry of the Gospel
- Through the Instrumentality of The Resurrection of Christ
- Through the Instrumentality of The Word of God
A New Creation
- 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 6:15 For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything. What counts is a new creation.
- 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.
A New Heart
- Ezekiel 36:26 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.
A New Spirit
- Ezekiel 11:19 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,
- 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.
A Spiritual Resurrection
- Romans 6:4–6 We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life. …
- 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!
- Colossians 2:12 And having been buried with Him in baptism, you were raised with Him through your faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead.
- Colossians 3:1 Therefore, since you have been raised with Christ, strive for the things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
All Saints Partake of
- Romans 8:16–17 The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. …
- 1 Peter 2:2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
- 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.
Circumcision of the Heart
- 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.
- Romans 2:29 No, a man is a Jew because he is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a man’s praise does not come from men, but from God.
- Colossians 2:11 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.
Connected with Adoption
- Isaiah 43:6–7 I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back!’ Bring My sons from afar, and My daughters from the ends of the earth— …
- John 1:12–13 But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God — …
Effected by Christ
- 1 John 2:29 If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.
Effected by God
- John 1:13 children born not of blood, nor of the desire or will of man, but born of God.
- 1 Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Effected by The Holy Spirit
Evidenced by Brotherly Love
- 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.
Evidenced by Faith in Christ
- 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.
Evidenced by Righteousness
- 1 John 2:29 If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.
Manner of Effecting – Illustrated
- John 3:8 The wind blows where it wishes. You hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”
Newness of Life
- Romans 6:4 We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life.
None Can Enter Heaven Without
- John 3:3 Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”
Partaking of the Divine Nature
- 2 Peter 1:4 Through these He has given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
Preserves from Satan's Devices
- 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.
Produces Delight in God's Law
- Romans 7:22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
Produces Hatred of Sin
- 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 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.
Produces Knowledge of God
- 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.
- Colossians 3:10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
Produces Likeness to Christ
- Romans 8:29 For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.
- 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.
- 1 John 3:2 Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is.
Produces Likeness to God
- Ephesians 4:24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
- Colossians 3:10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
Produces Victory Over the World
- 1 John 5:4 because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.
Putting on the New Man
- Ephesians 4:24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
The Corruption of Human Nature Requires
- John 3:6 Flesh is born of flesh, but spirit is born of the Spirit.
- Romans 8:7–8 because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. …
The Ignorant Cavil At
- John 3:4 “How can a man be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time to be born?”
The Inward Man
- Romans 7:22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
- 2 Corinthians 4:16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day.
The Washing of Regeneration
- Titus 3:5 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.
Through the Instrumentality of The Ministry of the Gospel
- 1 Corinthians 4:15 Even if you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.
Through the Instrumentality of The Resurrection of Christ
- 1 Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Through the Instrumentality of The Word of God
- 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.
- 1 Peter 1:23 For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
Related topics
The New Birth is for the Glory of GodThe New Birth is of the Mercy of GodThe New Birth is of the Will of GodRegenerationResurrection of RegenerationCreature
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.