John 3:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

So

General references

Matthew 7:8

Romans 9:16

Bible References

So

who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

And he said, "The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground,

"For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit.

For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit which is in him? Even so no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who does right is born of him.

He who commits sin is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.

General references

For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

So it depends not upon man's will or exertion, but upon God's mercy.