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# Connecting Statement:
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For now John ends this section on the new birth and the new nature which cannot sin.
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# Whoever has been born from God
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This can be stated in active form. AT: "Whoever God has made his child" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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# God's seed
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This speaks of the Holy Spirit, whom God gives to believers and who makes them able to resist sin and do what pleases God as if he were a physical seed that is planted in the earth and grows. This is sometimes referred to as the new nature. AT: "the Holy Spirit" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# he has been born of God
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This can be stated in active form. AT: "God has given him new spiritual life" or "he is a child of God" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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