Receiving The Holy Ghost

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

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

in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke with other languages and prophesied.

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into the Kingdom of God!

For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus, and found certain disciples. — read the full passage →

Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink! — read the full passage →

Being assembled together with them, he commanded them, “Don’t depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me.

“It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions. — read the full passage →

John answered them all, “I indeed baptize you with water, but he comes who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire,

Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. — read the full passage →

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you. — read the full passage →

When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit!

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” — read the full passage →

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.

Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them, — read the full passage →

The windblows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don’t know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.

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

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;

But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus, and found certain disciples. — read the full passage →

While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who heard the word. — read the full passage →

These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages;

in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, — read the full passage →

For they heard them speaking in other languages and magnifying God. Then Peter answered,

Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

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

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.” — read the full passage →

But when they believed Philip preaching good news concerning the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

“It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.

Being assembled together with them, he commanded them, “Don’t depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me. — read the full passage →

When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment;

Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant. — read the full passage →

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

Go,and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

But this is what has been spoken through the prophet Joel: — read the full passage →

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

I just want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

He said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” They said to him, “No, we haven’t even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”

He said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John’s baptism.” — read the full passage →

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. — read the full passage →

I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,—

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

For he who speaks in another language speaks not to men, but to God; for no one understands; but in the Spirit he speaks mysteries.

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “You rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,

Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.

who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water. — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? — read the full passage →

While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus, and found certain disciples. — read the full passage →

They of the circumcision who believed were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was also poured out on the Gentiles.

Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles. — read the full passage →

But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn’t yet glorified.

not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.

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

who, when they had come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit;

Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, “How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!

knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation. — read the full passage →

Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. — read the full passage →

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. — read the full passage →

“When the Counselorhas come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.

But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.

and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, — read the full passage →

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the profit of all.

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment, — read the full passage →

Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and proclaimed to them the Christ. — read the full passage →

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what you must say.”

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered. — read the full passage →

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus, and found certain disciples. — read the full passage →

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment, — read the full passage →

When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”