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John 3:7 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Marvel
thaumazo (Greek #2296)
to wonder; by implication, to admire
KJV usage: admire, have in admiration, marvel, wonder.
Pronounce: thou-mad'-zo
Origin: from 2295
not
me (Greek #3361)
(adverb) not, (conjunction) lest; also (as an interrogative implying a negative answer (whereas 3756 expects an affirmative one)) whether
KJV usage: any but (that), X forbear, + God forbid, + lack, lest, neither, never, no (X wise in), none, nor, (can-)not, nothing, that not, un(-taken), without. Often used in compounds in substantially the same relations. See also 3362, 3363, 3364, 3372, 3373, 3375, 3378.
Pronounce: may
Origin: a primary particle of qualified negation (whereas 3756 expresses an absolute denial)
that
hoti (Greek #3754)
demonstrative, that (sometimes redundant); causative, because
KJV usage: as concerning that, as though, because (that), for (that), how (that), (in) that, though, why.
Pronounce: hot'-ee
Origin: neuter of 3748 as conjunction
I said
epo (Greek #2036)
to speak or say (by word or writing)
KJV usage: answer, bid, bring word, call, command, grant, say (on), speak, tell. Compare 3004.
Pronounce: ep'-o
Origin: a primary verb (used only in the definite past tense, the others being borrowed from 2046, 4483, and 5346)
unto thee
soi (Greek #4671)
to thee
KJV usage: thee, thine own, thou, thy.
Pronounce: soy
Origin: dative case of 4771
, Ye
humas (Greek #5209)
you (as the objective of a verb or preposition)
KJV usage: ye, you (+ -ward), your (+ own).
Pronounce: hoo-mas'
Origin: accusative case of 5210
must
dei (Greek #1163)
also δέον (deh-on'); neuter active participle of the same; both used impersonally; it is (was, etc.) necessary (as binding)
KJV usage: behoved, be meet, must (needs), (be) need(-ful), ought, should.
Pronounce: die
Origin: 3d person singular active present of 1210
be born
gennao (Greek #1080)
to procreate (properly, of the father, but by extension of the mother); figuratively, to regenerate
KJV usage: bear, beget, be born, bring forth, conceive, be delivered of, gender, make, spring.
Pronounce: ghen-nah'-o
Origin: from a variation of 1085
βagain
anothen (Greek #509)
from above; by analogy, from the first; by implication, anew
KJV usage: from above, again, from the beginning (very first), the top.
Pronounce: an'-o-then
Origin: from 507
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or, from above.

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Ministry on This Verse

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Marvel.
John 3:12• 12If I told you the earthly things and ye believe not, how shall ye believe if I tell you the heavenly things? (John 3:12)
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John 5:28• 28Wonder not at this; for an hour is coming, in which all that are in the tombs shall hear his voice, (John 5:28)
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John 6:61‑63• 61But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmur concerning this, said to them, Doth this offend you?
 62If then ye behold the Son of man ascending where he was before?
 63It is the Spirit that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing. The words which I have spoken to you are spirit and are life; (John 6:61‑63)
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John 3:3• 3Jesus answered and said to him, Verily, verily, I say to thee, Except one be born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God. (John 3:3)
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Job 15:14•  (Job 15:14)
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Matt. 13:33‑35• 33{i}He spoke another parable to them: The kingdom of the heavens is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal until it had been all leavened.{/i}
 34{i}All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables, and without a parable he did not speak to them,{/i}
 35{i}so that that should be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from [the] world's foundation.{/i} (Matt. 13:33‑35)
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Rom. 3:9‑19• 9What then? are we better? Not at all; for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin,
 10even as it is written, “There is none righteous, not one;
 11there is not the [man] that understandeth; there is not the [man] that seeketh out God.
 12All went out of the way, together they became unprofitable; there is none that practiceth kindness, there is not so much as one.”
 13“An open grave [is] their throat; with their tongues they used deceit; venom of asps [is] under their lips;
 14whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;
 15swift [are] their feet to shed blood;
 16ruin and misery [are] in their ways;
 17and no way of peace they knew.
 18There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
 19Now we know that whatever things the law saith, it speaketh to those that [are] in the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be under judgment with God. (Rom. 3:9‑19)
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Rom. 9:22‑25• 22And if God, willing to display his wrath and to make known his power, endured in much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction,
 23and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy which he before prepared for glory(
 24us whom he also called not only out of Jews, but also out of Gentiles,
 25as also in Hosea he saith, “I will call that which [is] not-my-people, my people, and the not-beloved, Beloved;” (Rom. 9:22‑25)
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Rom. 12:1‑2• 1I exhort you then, brethren, by the mercies of God to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, your intelligent service;
 2and not to fashion yourselves to this age but to be transformed by the renewing of the mind that ye may prove what [is] the good and acceptable and perfect will of God. (Rom. 12:1‑2)
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Eph. 4:22‑24• 22that ye should put off, according to your former conversation, the old man that is corrupt according to the lusts of deceit,
 23and be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
 24and put on the new man, that according to God was created in righteousness and holiness of truth. (Eph. 4:22‑24)
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Col. 1:12• 12giving thanks to the Father that qualified us for sharing the inheritance of the saints in light; (Col. 1:12)
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Heb. 12:14• 14Pursue peace with all, and holiness apart from which no one shall see the Lord, (Heb. 12:14)
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1 Peter 1:14‑16,22• 14as children of obedience, not conformed to the former lusts in your ignorance,
 15but according to the Holy One that called you, be ye also holy in every [part of] conduct,
 16because it is written, Holy ye shall be, because I [am] holy.
 22purified your souls as ye have in your obedience to the truth unto brotherly affection unfeigned, love one another out of a pure heart fervently, (1 Peter 1:14‑16,22)
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Rev. 21:27• 27And there shall in no wise enter into it anything common, and {i}one{/i} practicing abomination and a lie; but those that are written in the Lamb's book of life. (Rev. 21:27)
again.
or, from above.
• Jews (not pagans merely, to which they would have assented at once) needed to be born afresh. (“Endnotes from John 3” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Do not wonder that I said to thee, It is needful that *ye* should be born anew.

W. Kelly Translation

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Wonder not that I said to thee, Ye must be born anew.