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Bible Verses About Monergism And Regeneration

Early Christian writings strongly connect regeneration with God’s saving action, but they do not all speak about it the same way. Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Theophilus, Tertullian, Cyprian, Origen, and Hippolytus often link new birth to baptism and the washing of regeneration, while some texts also stress God’s mercy, faith, and the Spirit’s work. The clearest direct Bible texts are Titus 3:5, John 3:3-7, 1 Peter 1:3, and related passages about being born of God and made alive by God.

The evidence is broad for baptismal and new-birth language, but thinner and more indirect for a fully defined monergism claim in the later theological sense. So the early record supports God as the giver of regeneration, while the exact way human faith, repentance, and baptism relate to that gift is sometimes stated more broadly than later debates do.

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29 references

Foundation Texts

John 1:13 primary

Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Says the born ones are not born of human will but of God.

Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

Direct new-birth command from Jesus.

Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

Says believers are born again by incorruptible seed and God’s word.

Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

Core saving passage for mercy and washing of regeneration.

Supporting Passages

Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

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Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

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That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

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Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Says God begat us again according to mercy.

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

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Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

Shows new life as God’s act toward the dead in sin.

Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

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That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

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Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

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Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

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And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

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That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

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Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.

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Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

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Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

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Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

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Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.

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Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

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So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

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And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

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Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

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Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

Says God begat us with the word of truth.

Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.

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Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.

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No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

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