“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 36:26 HCSB
“Jesus replied, ‘Truly I tell you, unless someone is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.’ 4) ‘How can anyone be born when he is old?’ Nicodemas asked him. ‘Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born?’ 5) ‘Truly I tell you, unless someone is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6) Whatever is born of the flesh is flesh, and whatever is born of the Spirit is spirit…”
-John 3:3-6 HCSB
“…because you have been born again – not of perishable seed but imperishable – through the living and enduring word of God. 24) For all flesh is like grass, and all it’s glory like a flower of the grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, but the word of the Lord endures forever. And this word is the gospel that was proclaimed to you.”
-1 Peter 1:23-25 HCSB
“So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.”
-Romans 10:17 NASB
“If you confess with your mouth , ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10) One believes with the heart, resulting in righteousness, and one confesses with the mouth, resulting in salvation.”
-Romans 10:9-10 HCSB
Andrew K. Banks 