THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. JOHN.                                                      CHAPTER 3:                                                                                                                     3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a
man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. LUKE.
CHAPTER 8:                                                                                                                   11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

THE FIRST EPISTLE GENERAL OF PETER.
CHAPTER 1:                                                                                                                   23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

THE GENERAL EPISTLE OF JAMES.
CHAPTER 1:                                                                                                                   18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of
firstfruits of his creatures.

21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive
with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. JOHN.
CHAPTER 6:                                                                                                                   63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

THE FIRST EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS.
CHAPTER 2:                                                                                                                   13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.      14  But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.                                                                                                                       15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.   16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.