John 3:8
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8 The wind[a] 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.”(A)
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- 3.8 The same Greek word means both wind and spirit
Ecclesiastes 11:4-5
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4 Whoever observes the wind will not sow,
and whoever regards the clouds will not reap.
5 Just as you do not know how the breath comes to the bones in the mother’s womb, so you do not know the work of God, who makes everything.(A)
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1 Corinthians 2:11
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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.(A)
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Acts 2:2
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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.(A)
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Mark 4:26-29
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The Parable of the Growing Seed
26 He also said, “The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground(A) 27 and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. 28 The earth produces of itself first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. 29 But when the grain is ripe, at once he goes in with his sickle because the harvest has come.”(B)
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Ezekiel 37:9
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9 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, mortal, and say to the breath:[a] Thus says the Lord God: Come from the four winds, O breath,[b] and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.”(A)
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1 John 2:29
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Children of God
29 If you perceive that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who does right has been born of him.(A)
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Acts 4:31
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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.(A)
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Job 37:16-17
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16 Do you know the balancings of the clouds,
the wondrous works of the one whose knowledge is perfect,(A)
17 you whose garments are hot
when the earth is still because of the south wind?
John 1:13
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13 who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God.(A)
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Isaiah 55:9-13
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9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.(A)
10 For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven
and do not return there until they have watered the earth,
making it bring forth and sprout,
giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,(B)
11 so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;
it shall not return to me empty,
but it shall accomplish that which I purpose
and succeed in the thing for which I sent it.(C)
12 For you shall go out in joy
and be led back in peace;
the mountains and the hills before you
shall burst into song,
and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.(D)
13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress;
instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle,
and it shall be to the Lord for a memorial,
for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.(E)
Job 37:10-13
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10 By the breath of God ice is given,
and the broad waters are frozen fast.(A)
11 He loads the thick cloud with moisture;
the clouds scatter his lightning.(B)
12 They turn round and round by his guidance
to accomplish all that he commands them
on the face of the habitable world.(C)
13 Whether for correction or for his land
or for love, he causes it to happen.(D)
1 John 3:8-9
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8 Everyone who commits sin is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The Son of God was revealed for this purpose: to destroy the works of the devil.(A) 9 Those who have been born of God do not sin because God’s seed abides in them;[a] they cannot sin because they have been born of God.(B)
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- 3.9 Or because the children of God abide in him
1 Corinthians 12:11
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11 All these are activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to each one individually just as the Spirit chooses.(A)
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Psalm 107:29
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29 he made the storm be still,
and the waves of the sea were hushed.(A)
Psalm 107:25
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25 For he commanded and raised the stormy wind,
which lifted up the waves of the sea.(A)
Job 37:21-23
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21 Now, no one can look on the light
when it is bright in the skies,
when the wind has passed and cleared them.
22 Out of the north comes golden splendor;
around God is awesome majesty.
23 The Almighty[a]—we cannot find him;
he is great in power and justice,
and abundant righteousness he will not violate.(A)
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- 37.23 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
Luke 6:43-44
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A Tree and Its Fruit
43 “No good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit;(A) 44 for each tree is known by its own fruit. For people do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they pick grapes from a bramble bush.(B)
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