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John 3:8

WEB

8The wind[+] blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don’t know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

KJV

8 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.

BSB

8The 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.”

FBV

8[+] The wind blows wherever it wants, and just as you hear the sound it makes, but don't know where it's coming from or where it's going, that's how it is for everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

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Extra References

Ecclesiastes 11:4-5

4He who observes the wind won’t sow; and he who regards the clouds won’t reap. 5As you don’t know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don’t know the work of God who does all.


1 Corinthians 2:11

11For who among men knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God except God’s Spirit.


Acts 2:2

2Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.


Ezekiel 37:9

9Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and tell the wind, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Come from the four winds, breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.”’”


1 John 2:29

29If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.


Mark 4:26-29

26He said, God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth, 27and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, though he doesn’t know how. 28For the earth bears fruit by itself: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. 29But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”


Acts 4:31

31When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.


John 1:13

13who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.


1 Corinthians 12:11

11But the one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.


Job 37:10-13

10By the breath of God, ice is given, and the width of the waters is frozen. 11Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning. 12It is turned around by his guidance, that they may do whatever he commands them on the surface of the habitable world, 13whether it is for correction, or for his land, or for loving kindness, that he causes it to come.