Born Again

"One day, one night, a juror came to Jesus and he wanted to know what he could do to be saved. Jesus didn't get bogged down on the kind of isolated approach of what you shouldn't do. Jesus didn't say, 'Now Nicodemus, you must stop lying.' He didn't say, 'Nicodemus, now you must not commit adultery.' He didn't say, 'Now Nicodemus you must stop cheating if you are doing that.' He didn't say, 'Nicodemus, you must stop drinking if you are doing that excessively.' He said something altogether different, because Jesus realized something basic: that if a man will lie, he will steal. And if a man will steal, he will kill. So instead of just getting bogged down on one thing, Jesus loooked at him and said, 'Nicodemus, you must be born again.'"
(Italics mine). Martin Luther King, Jr., "Where Do We Go From Here?" delivered August 16, 1967.