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

owing their birth not to nature nor to any human or physical impulse, but to God.

"The reign of God," he said, "is like a man scattering seed on the ground,

For sound trees do not bear bad fruit, nor bad trees sound fruit.

For what human being can understand a man's thoughts except the man's own spirit within him? Just so no one understands the thoughts of God but the spirit of God.

If you know that he is upright, you may be sure that everyone who acts uprightly is his child.

Whoever commits sin is a child of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. This is why the Son of God appeared??o undo the devil's work.

General references

For it is always the one who asks who receives, and the one who searches who finds, and the one who knocks to whom the door opens.

So it depends not on human will or exertion, but on the mercy of God.