12 However, to all who did receive him, he gave authority to become God’s children,+ because they were exercising faith in his name.+13 And they were born, not from blood or from a fleshly will or from man’s will, but from God.+
3 Praised be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for according to his great mercy he gave us a new birth+ to a living hope+ through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,+