# Commentary on 1 Peter Word Study – Born Anew > *Born Anew* (1 Pet 1:3) - *Anagennaō* (Gk.) means \"regenerate\" or \"cause to be born again\". It occurs in the NT only in 1 Pet 1:3 and 1:23, but parallel notions are expressed in similar words in Jn 3:3-5, Tit 3:5, and 1 Jn 3:9. For Peter, the rebirth of Jesus from the dead (resurrection) gives believers a spiritual rebirth by grace (regeneration). The idea is that God fathers or begets us anew, not in the natural way of biological parentage, but in a supernatural way that gives us a share in his own divine life (cf. 2 Pet 1:4). The benefit of this grace is a new birth into the family of God, so that believers united with Christ become \"newborn infants\" (1 Pet 2:2) and \"children\" (1 Pet 1:14) united in a \"brotherhood\" of faith (1 Pet 5:9). It is their privilege to invoke God as \"Father\" (1 Pet 1:17) and to await heaven as their \"inheritance\" (1 Pet 1:4). --- > Scott Hahn and Curtis Mitch, *The Ignatius Catholic Study Bible: New Testament*, Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2010).