Nascer de novo
Nascer de novo é a porta de entrada para a vida em Deus. Jesus ensinou que sem o novo nascimento espiritual, ninguém pode ver nem entrar no Reino de Deus.
A necessidade do novo nascimento
Jesus declarou a Nicodemos: 'Aquele que não nascer de novo não pode ver o Reino de Deus.' O novo nascimento é pelo Espírito.
"I tell you the truth," Jesus replied, "Unless you are reborn, you can’t experience God’s kingdom."
"I tell you the truth," Jesus replied, "Unless you are reborn, you can’t experience God’s kingdom."
"How can you be reborn when you’re old?" Nicodemus asked. "You can’t go back into your mother’s womb and be born a second time!"
"I tell you the truth, you can’t enter God’s kingdom unless you are born of water and the Spirit," Jesus told him. "What’s born of the body is body, and what’s born of the Spirit is Spirit. Don’t be surprised at my telling you, ‘You must be reborn.’ The wind blows wherever it wants, and just as you hear the sound it makes, but don’t know where it’s coming from or where it’s going, that’s how it is for everyone who is born of the Spirit."
"I tell you the truth, you can’t enter God’s kingdom unless you are born of water and the Spirit," Jesus told him. "What’s born of the body is body, and what’s born of the Spirit is Spirit. Don’t be surprised at my telling you, ‘You must be reborn.’
I tell you the truth, anyone who doesn’t welcome the kingdom of God like a child won’t enter it."
Around that time the disciples came to Jesus, and asked, "Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?"
Jesus called over a small child. He had the child stand in front of them. "I tell you the truth, unless you change the way you think and become like little children, you won’t ever enter the kingdom of heaven," he told them. "But whoever humbles themselves and becomes like this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
Nova criação em Cristo
Quem está em Cristo é nova criação. Morremos e ressuscitamos com Ele para viver em novidade de vida, livres do velho homem.
That’s why anyone who is in Christ is a new being—what was old is gone, the new has come!
Through baptism we were buried with him in death so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father we too can live a new life. If we’ve become one with him in dying like he did, then we’ll be raised like him too.
We know that our old self was crucified with him to dispose of the dead body of sin so that we wouldn’t be enslaved by sin any longer. Anyone who has died has been set free from sin.
Through baptism we were buried with him in death so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father we too can live a new life.
In just the same way you should consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God through Christ Jesus.
I’ve been crucified with Christ— so it’s no longer I who lives, but it is Christ living in me. The life I now live in this body, I live by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me, and who gave himself for me.
So get rid of your former lifestyle, that old nature that ruins you through deceptive desires! Let yourselves be remade spiritually and mentally, and put on your new nature that God created so you will be like him, right and holy in the truth.
Don’t lie to each other, since you’ve discarded your old self and what you used to do, and put on your new self that is always being made more like your Creator, understanding better who he really is. In this new situation there’s no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, foreigner, barbarian, slave or free, for Christ is everything, and he lives in all of us.
Filhos de Deus
Nascemos de novo pela Palavra viva de Deus. Quem crê em Jesus recebe o direito de se tornar filho de Deus, nascido do Espírito.
But to all those who accepted him and trusted in him, he gave the right to become God’s children. These are the children born not in the usual way, not as the result of human desire or a father’s decision, but born of God.
Praise God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! Through his great mercy we have been born again and given a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. This inheritance is eternal, it never spoils or fades, and it is kept safe in heaven for you.
You’ve been born again, not the product of a mortal "seed," but immortal, through the living, eternal word of God.
You should become like newborn babies who only want pure spiritual milk, so you can grow in salvation now you’ve tasted how good the Lord really is.
Look at the amazing kind of love the Father has for us! This is why we can be called God’s children—for that’s who we are! The reason why the people of this world don’t recognize us as God’s children is because they don’t recognize him. My friends, we are already God’s children; however what we shall become hasn’t been revealed just yet. But we do know that when he appears, we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he really is.
But at the appropriate time God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the rule of law, so that he could rescue those who were kept under the rule of law, so that we could receive the inheritance of adopted children.
I will give them single-minded commitment and a whole new spirit. I will take away their hard-hearted attitude and replace it with one that is loving. This way they can follow my rules, keep my regulations, and do what I say. They will be my people, and I will be their God.
But God in his generous mercy, because of the amazing love he had for us even while we were dead in our sins, has made us alive together with Christ. Trusting in him has saved you!