God’s Word Interprets God’s Word

Matthew 23:37

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one killing the prophets and stoning those sent to her. How often I desired to gather your children in the way a bird gathers her chicks under her wings! And you did not desire ( will) it.

John 5:40

And you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.

John 10:26

But you do not believe for (because) you are not of My sheep, as I said to you.

John 1:13

who were born not of bloods, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but were born of God.

Roman 9:16

So, then, it is not of the one willing, nor of the one running, but of the One showing mercy, of God.

Highlights and italics added for emphasis

Scripture taken from LITV literal translation by Jay P Green 1993