John 3:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The wind blows where it wishes. You hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.””
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“The wind blows where it wishes. You hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“The wind bloweth where it will, and thou hearest the voice thereof, but knowest not whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“the Spirit where he willeth doth blow, and his voice thou dost hear, but thou hast not known whence he cometh, and whither he goeth; thus is every one who hath been born of the Spirit.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo John 3:8 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 37:10By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen.
- Job 37:16Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge?
- Job 37:21Now no one can gaze at the sun when it is bright in the skies after the wind has swept them clean.
- Psalms 107:25For He spoke and raised a tempest that lifted the waves of the sea.
- Psalms 107:29He calmed the storm to a whisper, and the waves of the sea were hushed.
- Ecclesiastes 11:4He who watches the wind will fail to sow, and he who observes the clouds will fail to reap.
- Isaiah 55:9“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.
- Ezekiel 37:9Then He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and tell the breath that this is what the Lord GOD says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, so that they may live!”
- Mark 4:26Jesus also said, “The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground.
- Luke 6:43No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit.
- John 1:13children born not of blood, nor of the desire or will of man, but born of God.
- Acts 2:2Suddenly a sound like a mighty rushing wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.
- Acts 4:31After they had prayed, their meeting place was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.
- 1 Corinthians 2:11For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him? So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
- 1 Corinthians 12:11All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, who apportions them to each one as He determines.
- 1 John 2:29If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.
- 1 John 3:8The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil.
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