A person becomes connected to Jesus by faith through baptism and experiences a “circumcision of the heart,”, which creates inner renewal. By God placing his being into the person through the Holy Spirit, the person becomes – spiritually – reborn.

Mark 16,16

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

Romans 6, 3-6
Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptised into Christ Jesus were baptised into his death?  We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.
Colossians 2, 11-13
In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands. Your whole self ruled by the flesh was put off when you were circumcised by Christ,
having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead. When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins,
Galatians 3,27

for all of you who were baptised into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

Ezekiel 36,26

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. 

John 1,12-13

Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.

2 Corinthians 5,17

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 

Titus 3,5

He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

1 Peter 1,23

For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. 

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