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-# Connecting Statement:
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-For now John ends this section on the new birth and the new nature which cannot sin.
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 # Whoever has been born from God
 
-This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "Whoever God has made his child" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]])
+"Whoever God has made his child" 
 
 # God's seed
 
-This speaks of the Holy Spirit, whom God gives to believers and who makes them able to resist sin and do what pleases God as if he were a physical seed that is planted in the earth and grows. Alternate translation: "the Holy Spirit" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
+This speaks of the Holy Spirit, whom God gives to believers and who makes them able to resist sin and do what pleases God as if he were a physical seed that is planted in the earth and grows. Alternate translation: "the Holy Spirit" 
 
 # he has been born of God
 
-This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "God has given him new spiritual life" or "he is a child of God" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]])
+"God has given him new spiritual life" or "he is a child of God"