Bible Verses About The Holy Spirit
The Spirit is God himself dwelling with and within his people — our Helper, our Counselor, the seal of our redemption. He pours God’s love into our hearts, grows his fruit in our lives, and gives gifts for the good of the church. These verses help you welcome and walk in step with the Spirit.
The Holy Spirit
But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father is going to send in my name, is the one who will teach you everything and remind you of all I have said to you.
Do not get drunk on wine, for that is reckless, wasteful living. Instead, let the Spirit fill you.
Since our life comes from the Spirit, let us also follow the Spirit’s lead in each step we take.
I will ask the Father, and in answer he will give you another Advocate, who will be with you forever.
When he comes, he will show the world to be in the wrong about sin, about righteousness and about judgment:
But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you in all the truth. What he says will not come from himself; he will speak what he hears, and he will make known to you what is yet to come.
Do you not know that together you are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit lives among you?
In the same way, the Spirit also lends a hand in our weakness. What we should pray for, and how, we do not know. But the Spirit himself pleads on our behalf, with groans that no words carry.
As for the one who believes in me, it is just as the Scripture said: ‘Rivers of living water will pour out from deep within him.’”
And you also are in him. You heard the message of truth, the gospel that brings you salvation, and you believed; and in him you were sealed with the Holy Spirit God had promised.
But when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, you will receive power, and you will bear witness to me in Jerusalem, through all Judea and Samaria, and out to the farthest end of the earth.”
The Fruit & Gifts of the Spirit
But the fruit the Spirit produces is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. No law stands against things like these.
Each person is given a way in which the Spirit is openly at work, and it is given for the good of all.
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but a spirit of power and love and sound judgment.
Each of you has received a gift; use it to serve one another, as good managers of the richly varied grace of God.
As for you, you received an anointing from him, and that anointing remains in you; you have no need for anyone to teach you. Rather, his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true and not a lie. So, just as the anointing has taught you, remain in him.
Gifts are given out in different ways, but it is the same Spirit who gives them.
As things are, then, three things last: faith, hope and love. And of these three, the greatest is love.
Strive for love, and set your hearts on spiritual gifts, most of all on prophesying.
That is why I remind you to stir up into flame the gift God gave you when I laid my hands on you.
A body is a single whole, and yet it has many parts; all its parts, many as they are, make up one body. It is the same with Christ.