John 3:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.”

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 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 perceive that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who does right has been born of him.