12 Bible Verses about New Birth, Evidenced By

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been fathered by God, and everyone who loves {the father} also loves the [child] fathered by him.

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by him.

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control. Against such things [there] is no law.

Love is patient, love is kind, love is not jealous, [it] does not boast, [it] does not become conceited, [it] does not behave dishonorably, [it] {is not selfish}, [it] does not become angry, [it] does not keep a record of wrongs, [it] does not rejoice at unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth,read more.
bears all [things], believes all [things], hopes all [things], endures all [things]. Love never ends. But if [there are] prophecies, they will pass away. If [there are] tongues, they will cease. If [there is] knowledge, it will pass away.

like newborn infants long for the unadulterated spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,

for you were formerly darkness, but now [you are] light in the Lord. Live like children of light

For the time that has passed [was] sufficient {to do what the Gentiles desire to do}, having lived in licentiousness, [evil] desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties, and wanton idolatries,

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or greediness, must not even be named among you (as is fitting for saints),

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples--if you have love for one another."

Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.

And [when he] found [him], he brought [him] to Antioch. And it happened to them also [that they] met together [for] a whole year with the church and taught a large number [of people]. And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians.