# Whoever has been born from God
"Whoever God has made his child"
# God's seed
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. Alternate translation: "the Holy Spirit"
# he has been born of God
"God has given him new spiritual life" or "he is a child of God"