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.

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General references

Matthew 7:8

Romans 9:16

Bible References

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who were begotten as such not by human descent, nor through an impulse of their own nature, nor through the will of a human father, but from God.

Another saying of His was this: "The Kingdom of God is as if a man scattered seed over the ground:

"There is no good tree that yields unsound fruit, nor again any unsound tree that yields good fruit.

For, among human beings, who knows a man's inner thoughts except the man's own spirit within him? In the same way, also, only God's Spirit is acquainted with God's inner thoughts.

Since you know that He is righteous, be assured also that the man who habitually acts righteously is a child of His.

He who is habitually guilty of sin is a child of the Devil, because the Devil has been a sinner from the very beginning. The Son of God appeared for the purpose of undoing the work of the Devil.

General references

For it is always he who asks that receives, he who seeks that finds, and he who knocks that has the door opened to him.

And from this we learn that everything is dependent not on man's will or endeavour, but upon God who has mercy. For the Scripture said to Pharaoh,