No one can come to Me unless the Father who has sent Me draw him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
Draw me, we will run after You. The King has brought me into his chambers; we will be glad and rejoice in You, we will remember Your love more than wine; the upright love You.
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard its spots? Then you also may do good, who are accustomed to doing evil.
Jehovah has appeared to me from afar, saying, Yea, I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with loving-kindness I have drawn you.
I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love; and I was to them as those who take off the yoke on their jaws, and I gently give food to him.
Offspring of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Jesus answered and said to him, You are blessed, Simon, son of Jonah, for flesh and blood did not reveal it to you, but My Father in Heaven.
And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all to Myself.
How can you believe, you who receive honor from one another and do not seek the honor that comes from God only?
Jesus therefore answered and said to them, Do not murmur with one another.
It is written in the Prophets, "And they shall all be taught of God." Therefore everyone who hears and learns from the Father comes to Me.
And He said, Because of this I said to you that no one can come to Me unless it was given to him from My Father.
Why do you not know My speech? Because you cannot hear My Word.
For to you it is given on behalf of Christ not only to believe on Him, but also to suffer for His sake,
buried with Him in baptism, in whom also you were raised through the faith of the working of God, raising Him from the dead.