if the earthly things I said to you, and ye do not believe, how, if I shall say to you the heavenly things, will ye believe?John 3:12 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleIf I have told you earthly things - If, after I have illustrated this new birth by a most expressive metaphor taken from earthly things, and after all you believe not; how can you believe, should I tell you of heavenly things, in such language as angels use, where earthly images and illustrations can have no place? Or, if you, a teacher in Israel, do not understand the nature of such an earthly thing, or custom of the kingdom established over the Jewish nation, as being born of baptism, practised every day in the initiation of proselytes, how will you understand such heavenly things as the initiation of my disciples by the baptism of the Holy Ghost and fire from heaven, if I should proceed farther on the subject?
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earthly.
John 3:3,5,8 Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God...
1 Corinthians 3:1,2 And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to carnal, even as to babes in Christ...
Hebrews 5:11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing you are dull of hearing.
1 Peter 2:1-3 Why laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, all evil speakings...
heavenly.
John 3:13-17,31-36 And no man has ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven...
John 1:1-14 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God...
1 Corinthians 2:7-9 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world to our glory...
1 Timothy 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels...
1 John 4:10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
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