• 1 Corinthians 2:10-14
    But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For what man 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 the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
     
  • 2 Timothy 1:6-9
    Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner, but share with me in the sufferings for the gospel according to the power of God, who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began,
     
  • Acts 1:8
    But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
     
  • Romans 8:9-11
    But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
     
  • John 14:16-18
    And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever— the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.
     
  • Romans 8:13-16
    For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father." The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
     
  • 1 Corinthians 2:16
    For "who has known the mind of the LORD that he may instruct Him?" But we have the mind of Christ.
     
For more scripture references, please see Bible verses for Holy Spirit


Resources

Misconceptions and Malarkey About the Holy Spirit (Part Two)

'Ready Answer' by David F. Maas

The Holy Spirit is God's power and essence of mind, not a third divine person, and the Trinitarian case for its personality rests on weak proofs. Verses cited for personality actually undercut it. The parakletos conveys Christ's messages rather than its own (John 15:26; 16:13). Acts 13:2 uses pneuma hagion without the article, …


What Is the Holy Spirit?

'Ready Answer' by David C. Grabbe

The Holy Spirit is not a third person in a triune godhead but the essence of God's own mind, His attitude, character, will, and motivating power, which He gives to His children. The Trinity idea is traced to Greek philosophy and older pagan religions, read into the Greek text by early scholars who stretched the word pneuma , …


The Holy Spirit

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God's Holy Spirit typically refers to the mind of God and Christ, which is added to our human spirit to create a sound mind by which we witness of God.


The Holy Spirit

Bible Study by Martin G. Collins

The Holy Spirit is the power and mind of God, not a distinct person or part of a trinity, and it emanates from Him to be poured out, breathed, and used to fill and anoint. Understanding it is crucial because it enables us to grasp God's way of life, makes us His children, and imparts eternal life (Romans 8:10, 14). God gives it …


Misconceptions and Malarkey About the Holy Spirit (Part One)

'Ready Answer' by David F. Maas

The Holy Spirit is presented as a power and an essence rather than the Third Person of a Trinity, a doctrine said to be pagan in origin and formalized late by the Cappadocian Fathers and the Council of Constantinople. According to Ephesians 1:13-14, the Holy Spirit is the instrument of regeneration as children of God and a …


The Holy Spirit and the Trinity (Part One)

Sermon by John W. Ritenbaugh

The Holy Spirit is not a third person of a Trinity but the essence of the mind of the Father and the Son, an invisible, immaterial emanation of Their thoughts, words, and character that They send directly into a person's mind. Trinitarian scholarship itself admits the doctrine is not clearly found in Scripture, rests on …


The Trinity and the Holy Spirit (Part Two)

Sermon by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)

The Holy Spirit is the power of God, not a third personality in the God family. Elohim is a family or kind presently consisting of two personalities, the Father and the Son, who are not co-equal or co-eternal, since the Son is subject to the Father. The Trinity was introduced at the Council of Nicaea in AD 325 through human …


The Holy Spirit and the Trinity (Part Five)

Sermon by John W. Ritenbaugh

The Holy Spirit is the essence of God's mind, not a third person of a trinity who divides himself to inhabit thousands of people. It is holy because it comes from the holy God, and it is pure and transcendent, always producing abundant and everlasting life. Spirit in Scripture means the invisible, internal, activating essence of …



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