14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

• Forgiveness
• New Creation
• Redemption

6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Cor 15:36 — Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:
• 1Cor 15:45 — And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
• 1John 1:7 — But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
• 1John 2:12 — I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.
• 2Cor 3:6 — Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
• 2Cor 5:14 — For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
• 2Cor 5:19 — To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
• Acts 10:45 — And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.
• Acts 13:38 — Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
• Col 1:14 — In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
• Col 3:7 — In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
• Eph 1:7 — In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
• Eph 2:1 — And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
• Eph 2:1 — And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
• Eph 2:5 — Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
• Eph 2:11 — Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
• Eph 2:11 — Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
• Eph 5:14 — Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
• Gen 2:17 — But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
• Heb 9:14 — How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
• Isa 55:7 — Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
• Jas 2:26 — For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
• John 5:21 — For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
• John 5:25 — Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
• Luke 9:60 — Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.
• Luke 15:24 — For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
• Luke 15:24 — For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
• Luke 15:32 — It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
• Matt 8:22 — But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.
• Phil 3:10 — That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
• Ps 71:20 — Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
• Ps 85:2 — Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.
• Ps 119:50 — This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.
• Rev 3:1 — And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.
• Rom 5:6 — For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
• Rom 6:13 — Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto Go
• Rom 6:13 — Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto Go
• Rom 8:11 — But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
• Rom 11:17 — And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;