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

1 John 3:8

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.

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

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 again does a bad tree bear good fruit,

For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning 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 the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.