 | James Cranbrook - Christianity - 1868 - 212 pages
...it would seem not difficult to interpret the rest. For, when the figurative words are used, " Except a man be born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God," if by the " kingdom of God " be meant a state of mind in which God is recognised and obeyed, to enter... | |
 | William Parks (B.A.), David Alfred Doudney - 1868 - 358 pages
...he were dead, yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die." "Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God." " If any man will come after me, let him deny himself," &c. " Whosoever confesseth me before men him... | |
 | James Dickerson DAVIES - Conduct of life - 1870 - 220 pages
...kingdom of Christ— there are inscribed the irrevocable words:— " Except a man be bom again : Except a man be born of water and the Spirit; he cannot enter The kingdom of God." THE PHAEISEE AND PUBLICAN; OK, THE TKUE METHOD 01 ACCESS TO GOD. " AND Jesus spake this parable unto... | |
 | 1873 - 636 pages
...ruler who came to Christ. Do you remember what followed ? — " Verily, verily, I say unto you, except a man be born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter the kingd'om of God." Nor did He leave him wondering what he nnist do, but He told him of His own lifting up on the cross,... | |
 | John Crawford - 1875 - 304 pages
...to baptism. I say they do not. But if in this case it refers to water baptism when it says, "Except a man be born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God." What is meant by the kingdom of God ? I say that it cannot refer to the inward and invisible kingdom... | |
 | Charles Coffin Adams - 1878 - 428 pages
...resented it ; but caused Him to repeat the truth in another way, " Verily, verily, I say unto you, except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God." Both sayings were strange to the ruler, and the learned Pharisee, whose word was law to the people... | |
 | 1881 - 654 pages
...the word water in a literal, not metaphorical, sense in the solemn statement of our Lord, ''Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God," and applying to infants language which our Saviour intended only for adults, Pelagius taught that,... | |
 | Devotional literature - 1882 - 70 pages
...verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. . . . Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of flesh is flesh ; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that... | |
 | George Duncan - Baptists - 1883 - 140 pages
...see even more than this number. 1. The being born of the water. — In John iii. 5 we read, " Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God." This passage of scripture which is really simple in itself, theologians have made one of the most mysterious... | |
 | Herbert Junius Hardwicke - Christianity - 1884 - 308 pages
...again enter his mother's womb and be born anew ; so Jesus said to him, " Verily I say to thee, Except a man be born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of gcd ard no man has ascended into heaven but he that descended out of heaven, even the son of man, which... | |
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Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God. 
