1. There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
2. The same came to Jesus by night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
3. Jesus answered and said to him, Verily, verily, I say to thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
4. Nicodemus saith to him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
5. Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say to thee, Except a man be born of water, and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
6. That which is born of the flesh, is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit, is spirit.
7. Marvel not that I said to thee, Ye must be born again.
8. The wind bloweth where it will, and thou hearest the sound of it, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
9. Nicodemus answered and said to him, How can these things be?
10. Jesus answered and said to him, Art thou a teacher of Israel, and knowest not these things?
11. Verily, verily, I say to thee, We speak what we know, and testify what we have seen; and ye receive not our testimony.
12. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how will ye believe if I tell you heavenly things?
13. And no man hath ascended to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man who is in heaven.
14. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
15. That whoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him may be saved.
18. He that believeth on him, is not condemned: but he that believeth not, is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only-begotten Son of God.