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The Spirit Of Man
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But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;
The spirit of man is Yahweh’s lamp, searching all his innermost parts.
Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
An oracle. Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:
For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God’s Spirit.
But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.
May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn’t have flesh and bones, as you see that I have.”
“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day. — read the full passage →
(For the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
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,
For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;
His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.
They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”
Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?”
“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →
Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.
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.
For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →
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 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.
Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins, he shall die.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
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 we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power 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.”
Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord. — read the full passage →
They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”
that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;
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.
It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.
If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.
Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and one sat on each of them. — read the full passage →
Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, “This is Yahweh’s word to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says Yahweh of Armies.
The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;
I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. — read the full passage →
By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man; — read the full passage →
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, — read the full passage →
Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,
Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
For this perishable body must become imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,
Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees. — read the full passage →
For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that Yahweh’s word by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.
who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light; whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.
For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.
But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.
For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →
Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen.
We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing. — read the full passage →
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.
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.
For everything spoken by God is possible.”
The Spirit of Yahweh will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.
He said these things, and after that, he said to them, “Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep.”
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.
Go,and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man;
The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets,
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us. — 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 →
He said these things, and after that, he said to them, “Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep.” — read the full passage →
I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.
let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,
Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, — read the full passage →
Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.
Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives 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.
A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,
For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
Which things also we speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.
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