I used to believe that being born again meant a complete transformation, but now I see it as a continual process of growth and renewal.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.

Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God.

We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.