No one can come to Me unless the Father who has sent Me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.
Draw me after you, and we will run away. The king has brought me into his chamber. Let us shout with joy and rejoice in you; let us remember that your love is better than wine. Truly do the young women love you.
Can the Cushite change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then you also can do good, who are accustomed to doing evil.
The Lord has appeared to him from afar, saying: Indeed, I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.
I drew them with cords of human kindness, with bands of love. I was to them as those who ease the yoke on their neck, and I bent down and fed them.
O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.
And if I be lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men to Myself.”
How can you believe, who receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
Jesus therefore answered them, “Do not murmur among yourselves.
It is written in the Prophets, ‘They shall all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who has heard and has learned of the Father comes to Me.
Then He said, “For this reason I have said to you that no one can come to Me unless it were given him by My Father.”
Why do you not understand My speaking? Because you cannot bear to hear My word.
For to you it was granted on behalf of Christ not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake,
buried with Him in baptism, in which also you were raised with Him through the faith of the power of God, who has raised Him from the dead.