John 3:8

New Living Translation

The wind blows wherever it wants. Just as you can hear the wind but can’t tell where it comes from or where it is going, so you can’t explain how people are born of the Spirit.”

Cross References

Psalm 107:25

He spoke, and the winds rose, stirring up the waves.

Psalm 107:29

He calmed the storm to a whisper and stilled the waves.

Psalm 135:7

He causes the clouds to rise over the whole earth. He sends the lightning with the rain and releases the wind from his storehouses.

Ecclesiastes 1:6

The wind blows south, and then turns north. Around and around it goes, blowing in circles.

Ezekiel 37:9

Then he said to me, “Speak a prophetic message to the winds, son of man. Speak a prophetic message and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Come, O breath, from the four winds! Breathe into these dead bodies so they may live again.’”

John 1:13

They are reborn—not with a physical birth resulting from human passion or plan, but a birth that comes from God.

John 3:7

So don’t be surprised when I say, ‘You must be born again.’

John 3:9

“How are these things possible?” Nicodemus asked.

Acts 2:2

Suddenly, there was a sound from heaven like the roaring of a mighty windstorm, and it filled the house where they were sitting.

Acts 4:31

After this prayer, the meeting place shook, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit. Then they preached the word of God with boldness.

1 Corinthians 12:11

It is the one and only Spirit who distributes all these gifts. He alone decides which gift each person should have.

1 Corinthians 2:11

No one can know a person’s thoughts except that person’s own spirit, and no one can know God’s thoughts except God’s own Spirit.

1 John 2:29

Since we know that Christ is righteous, we also know that all who do what is right are God’s children.