John 3:8 - New Revised Standard Version

⁸ The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ The wind blows (breathes) where it wills; and though you hear its sound, yet you neither know where it comes from nor where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ 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.

Common English Bible

⁸ God’s Spirit blows wherever it wishes. You hear its sound, but you don’t know where it comes from or where it is going. It’s the same with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ The Spirit inspires where he wills. And you hear his voice, but you do not know where he comes from, or where he is going. So it is with all who are born of the Spirit."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ The Spirit breatheth where he will; and thou hearest his voice, but thou knowest not whence he cometh, and whither he goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

John 3:8 Cross References

Psalm 107:25

For he commanded and raised the stormy wind, which lifted up the waves of the sea.

Psalm 107:29

he made the storm be still, and the waves of the sea were hushed.

Psalm 135:7

He it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses.

Ecclesiastes 1:6

The wind blows to the south, and goes around to the north; round and round goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns.

Ezekiel 37:9

Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, mortal, and say to the breath: Thus says the Lord God: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.”

John 1:13

who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God.

John 3:7

Do not be astonished that I said to you, ‘You must be born from above.’

John 3:9

Nicodemus said to him, “How can these things be?”

Acts 2:2

And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.

Acts 4:31

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

1 Corinthians 12:11

All these are activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to each one individually just as the Spirit chooses.

1 Corinthians 2:11

For what human being knows what is truly human except the human spirit that is within? So also no one comprehends what is truly God's except the Spirit of God.

1 John 2:29

If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who does right has been born of him.