1 Peter 1:23 For you have been begotten again by God's ever-living and enduring word from a germ not of perishable, but of imperishable life. (WEY)
1 John 3:9 No one who is a child of God is habitually guilty of sin. A God-given germ of life remains in him, and he cannot habitually sin--because he is a child of God. (WEY)