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 a husband, but of God.

"For [as] [the] heavens are {higher} than [the] earth, so my ways are {higher} than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

And he said, "The kingdom of God is like this: like a man scatters seed on the ground.

"For there is no good tree that produces bad fruit, nor on the other hand a bad tree that produces good fruit,

For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man that [is] in him? Thus also no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by him.

The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this [reason] the Son of God was revealed: in order 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.

Consequently therefore, {it does not depend on the} one who wills or on the one who runs, but on God who shows mercy.