Jesus said, except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. John iii 5.

I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit... I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. Ezek. xxxvi 26, 27.

To give a new heart and a new spirit. Ezek. xi 19.

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me ... Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. Ps. li 10-12.

Make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? Ezek. xviii 31.

Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created; and thou renewest the faces of the earth. Ps. civ 30.

The hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth. John iv 23.

Jehovah God giveth breath (anima) unto the people, and spirit to them that walk in the earth. Isa. xlii 5.

Jehovah formeth the spirit of man within him. Zech. xii 1.

With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me have I waited for thee in the morning. Isa. xxvi 9.

In that day shall Jehovah be . . . for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment. Isa. xxviii 5, 6.

My spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. Luke i 47.

They have quieted my spirit in the north country. Zech. vi 8.

Into thine hand I commend my spirit: thou hast redeemed me. Ps. xxxi 5.

Was there not one, and the residue, who have the spirit? Mal. ii 15.

After three days and an half the spirit of life from God entered into the two witnesses that had been slain by the beast. Rev. xi 11.

I Jehovah that formeth the mountains, and createth the spirit. Amos iv 13.

O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh. Num. xvi 22; xxvii 18.

I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitant of Jerusalem the spirit from on high (A.V. of grace). Zech. xii 10.

Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high. Isa. xxxii 15.

I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed. Isa. xliv 3.

I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh ... And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. Joel ii 28, 29.

By pouring out the spirit is meant regenerating; and the same is meant by giving a new heart and a new spirit.

[2] By spirit is meant spiritual life to those who are in humiliation.

I dwell in the contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. Isa. lvii 15.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Ps. li 17.

He will give the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. Isa. lxi 3

A woman forsaken, and grieved in spirit. Isa. liv 6.

Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matt. v 3.