Matthew 16:17
16:17 And Jesus answered him, “You are blessed, Simon son of Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father in heaven!
John 1:12-13
1:12 But to all who have received him – those who believe in his name – he has given the right to become God’s children
1:13 – children not born by human parents or by human desire or a husband’s decision, but by God.
John 6:44-45
6:44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
6:45 It is written in the prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who hears and learns from the Father comes to me.
Acts 13:39
13:39 and by this one everyone who believes is justified from everything from which the law of Moses could not justify you.
Acts 14:27
14:27 When they arrived and gathered the church together, they reported all the things God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith for the Gentiles.
Ephesians 2:8
2:8 For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God;
Colossians 2:12
2:12 Having been buried with him in baptism, you also have been raised with him through your faith in the power of God who raised him from the dead.
James 1:17-18
1:17 All generous giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or the slightest hint of change.
1:18 By his sovereign plan he gave us birth through the message of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.