Spirit

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness covered the surface of the watery depths, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.

God, create a clean heart for me and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Where can I go to escape your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?

If I go up to heaven, you are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there.

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. May your gracious Spirit lead me on level ground.

If you respond to my warning, then I will pour out my spirit on you and teach you my words.

The tongue that heals is a tree of life, but a devious tongue breaks the spirit.

The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners;

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

I will place my Spirit within you and cause you to follow my statutes and carefully observe my ordinances.

So he answered me, “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by strength or by might, but by my Spirit,’ says the LORD of Armies.

Therefore, I tell you, people will be forgiven every sin and blasphemy, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.

So when they arrest you and hand you over, don’t worry beforehand what you will say, but say whatever is given to you at that time, for it isn’t you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

When all the people were baptized, Jesus also was baptized. As he was praying, heaven opened,

and the Holy Spirit descended on him in a physical appearance like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well-pleased.”

The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free the oppressed,

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

And Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I entrust my spirit.” Saying this, he breathed his last.

I didn’t know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The one you see the Spirit descending and resting on — he is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’

Jesus answered, “Truly I tell you, unless someone is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

Whatever is born of the flesh is flesh, and whatever is born of the Spirit is spirit.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in Spirit and in truth.”

“I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you.

Nevertheless, I am telling you the truth. It is for your benefit that I go away, because if I don’t go away the Counselor will not come to you. If I go, I will send him to you.

When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished.” Then bowing his head, he gave up his spirit.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come on you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

When the day of Pentecost had arrived, they were all together in one place.

Suddenly a sound like that of a violent rushing wind came from heaven, and it filled the whole house where they were staying.

They saw tongues like flames of fire that separated and rested on each one of them.

Then they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different tongues, as the Spirit enabled them.

Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, each of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him.”

As they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”

This hope will not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Now the mind-set of the flesh is death, but the mind-set of the Spirit is life and peace.

And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, then he who raised Christ from the dead will also bring your mortal bodies to life through his Spirit who lives in you.

For all those led by God’s Spirit are God’s sons.

For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear. Instead, you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father!”

The Spirit himself testifies together with our spirit that we are God’s children,

In the same way the Spirit also helps us in our weakness, because we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with unspoken groanings.

And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because he intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

Do not lack diligence in zeal; be fervent in the Spirit; serve the Lord.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Now God has revealed these things to us by the Spirit, since the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.

For who knows a person’s thoughts except his spirit within him? In the same way, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

Don’t you yourselves know that you are God’s temple and that the Spirit of God lives in you?

Don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

for you were bought at a price. So glorify God with your body.

For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body — whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free — and we were all given one Spirit to drink.

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

We all, with unveiled faces, are looking as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord and are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory; this is from the Lord who is the Spirit.

So then, does God give you the Spirit and work miracles among you by your doing the works of the law? Or is it by believing what you heard —

I say then, walk by the Spirit and you will certainly not carry out the desire of the flesh.

For the flesh desires what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit desires what is against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you don’t do what you want.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

gentleness, and self-control. The law is not against such things.

If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.

because the one who sows to his flesh will reap destruction from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, would give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him.

I pray that he may grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with power in your inner being through his Spirit,

and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. I pray that you, being rooted and firmly established in love,

Now to him who is able to do above and beyond all that we ask or think according to the power that works in us —

to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

making every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.

There is one body and one Spirit  — just as you were called to one hope at your calling —

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this darkness, against evil, spiritual forces in the heavens.

because I know this will lead to my salvation through your prayers and help from the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

And most certainly, the mystery of godliness is great: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but one of power, love, and sound judgment.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works so that we can serve the living God?

Therefore, with your minds ready for action, be sober-minded and set your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

because no prophecy ever came by the will of man; instead, men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

The one who keeps his commands remains in him, and he in him. And the way we know that he remains in us is from the Spirit he has given us.

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

This is how we know that we remain in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit.