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 merely in a genetic sense, nor from lust, nor from man's desire, but from the will of God.

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

He was also saying, "The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seeds on the ground.

"A good tree doesn't produce rotten fruit, and a rotten tree doesn't produce good fruit,

Is there anyone who can understand his own thoughts except his own inner spirit? In the same way, no one can know the thoughts of God except God's Spirit.

Since you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by God.

The person who practices sin belongs to the evil one, because the Devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason that the Son of God was revealed was to destroy what the Devil has been doing.

General references

Because everyone who keeps asking will receive, and the person who keeps searching will find, and the person who keeps knocking will have the door opened.

Therefore, God's choice does not depend on a person's will or effort, but on God himself, who shows mercy.