A. Overview
The Holy Spirit is eternal and has existed since the beginning of creation, and is the very Presence of the living God in the world.[1] The world was made and created by the Sovereign LORD God’s mighty Spirit and preserved by His wisdom and understanding.[2] God’s Spirit is omnipresent everywhere because He fills the heavens and earth with His glorious Spirit.[3] Moreover, the Holy Spirit is all-knowing (omniscient) and the wisdom, understanding, power, and grace of the Sovereign LORD God.[4] Only the Holy Spirit of God reveals the secrets and wisdom of the LORD God.[5] The LORD God is Spirit and invisible as He has no body, physical nor measurable form, and He lives in unapproachable light.[6] The Holy Spirit reveals the Presence of the living LORD God through the natural world with the winds, the clouds, thunder, lightning, heavenly rains, and the living water.[7] In addition, the Holy Spirit of God has great power and was the power that raised Jesus from complete death.[8]
The Holy Spirit is part of the One God, who exists in Three Persons – God the Father, God the Son (Jesus), and God the Spirit.[9] The Triune God is also known as the Trinity and the Godhead – God the Father, God the Son (Jesus), and God the Spirit, and God is One in essence and nature.[10] Thus, the Sovereign God is Three in One and One in Three. The Holy Spirit of God is One with God the Father and God the Son – Jesus.[11] The New Testament declares that the Holy Spirit is also the Spirit of Jesus.[12] All creation is assigned to the Trinity – God the Father, God the Son Jesus, and the Holy Spirit of God.[13] God the Father was with His Son Jesus (the living Word of God or Logos) and the Holy Spirit creating the world and breathing life into humanity.[14] The Holy Spirit of God is the breath of life.[15]
The Holy Scriptures – the Old Testament and New Testament – are God-breathed by the Holy Spirit of God and necessary for correction, godly living, and instruction on good works.[16] The Word of God is the sword of the living Spirit.[17]The Holy Spirit of God is the Speaker in the Old Testament.[18] The Old Testament prophets spoke and were inspired by the Holy Spirit of God.[19] The prophetic Old Testament scriptures anchor the truth about Jesus the Messiah (Christ).[20]
Throughout history, the Sovereign LORD God has empowered His people with the Spirit of God and favor for His divine purpose.[21] In the Old Testament, the Spirit of God came upon individuals to empower them for God’s purpose and service.[22] Moreover, the Spirit of God was upon Israel in the wilderness.[23] In addition, the Sovereign LORD God’s grace and favor were with Joseph, and He empowered Joseph with the Spirit of wisdom, discernment, understanding, divination, insight, and the ability to interpret dreams.[24] The Egyptians called Joseph “Zaphenath-Paneah,” which means “God speaks.”[25] Even more, the Holy Spirit of God was upon John the Baptist and his parents, Zechariah and Elizabeth, the church's first deacons – Stephen, Barnabas, the Apostle Peter, the early Christians, and the Apostle Paul at his conversion and during his preaching.[26]
Importantly, the Sovereign LORD God empowered His Son Jesus with the Holy Spirit of God.[27] One of the clear messages of the New Testament is that the Holy Spirit was upon Jesus from His very birth.[28] The Sovereign LORD God gave His Son Jesus the Holy Spirit without measure and without limit, and Jesus went around doing good to all.[29]During His public ministry on earth, Jesus ministered by the Holy Spirit of God.[30] Jesus the Messiah (Christ) was filled with the Holy Spirit of God as predicted by the prophet Isaiah.[31] In the Old Testament, the prophet Isaiah predicted Jesus the Messiah’s anointing by the Holy Spirit of God with all wisdom, knowledge, healing, righteousness, and understanding.[32] Jesus was the righteous and holy Servant of God predicted by the prophet Isaiah.[33] Indeed, Jesus is the source and foundation of all wisdom and blessings from the Sovereign LORD God.[34] Jesus is the Divine Logos or wisdom of God.[35] Jesus increased in wisdom, stature, and favor with God and man as He grew older.[36] The Holy Spirit of God anointed Jesus at His baptism and empowered Jesus to accomplish His role as the Messiah of God.[37]
Notably, the Holy Bible teaches there are other spirits in the world.[38] These other spirits are unclean, demonic, lying, evil, and tormenting spirits.[39] The Sovereign LORD God brings these tormenting and evil spirits to those who are unfaithful and disobey Him.[40] The Holy Spirit of God departs from those who practice and does Satan’s lawlessness, falsehood, evildoing, disobedience, and dark deeds.[41] There is no goodness in these evil workers of Satan, and they even encourage others to engage and do these evil and dark deeds.[42] However, Jesus has the Holy Spirit of God to cast out and heal every evil and unclean spirits.[43] Jesus casts out evil and unclean spirits by the Holy Spirit of God.[44]Moreover, Jesus gives His faithful servants the ability to cast out these unclean and evil spirits.[45]
Significantly, the LORD God created humans as a whole person with a body, soul, and spirit.[46] The Holy Bible teaches the Sovereign LORD God must be worshipped and loved with our whole hearts, souls, minds, and strength, and His Name must ALWAYS be honored and respected.[47] The Sovereign LORD God and His Son Jesus as our Creator deserve our forever praise and worship with our whole hearts.[48] Our souls were made to worship the Sovereign LORD God.[49]In the Holy Bible, the human soul is sometimes synonymous (same) with spirit, heart, life, and one’s entire being.[50]However, sometimes the Holy Bible treats the human soul as distinct and different from the spirit, heart, and life.[51] The LORD God restores and heals our souls and brings His peace, hope, and joy as we wholeheartedly love, trust, and obey Him.[52] The soul that sins and rebels against the Sovereign LORD God shall die.[53]
B. Obedience to God
From the beginning of human history, the LORD God has wanted everyone to love and worship Him and walk before Him as blameless, good, and obedient.[54] Even more important, the LORD God wanted everyone to walk and live by wholehearted faith in Him.[55] Without faith in Him, it is impossible to please the LORD God.[56] Human sin, unfaithfulness to the LORD God, and evildoing grieve the Holy Spirit of God.[57]
Then, the Sovereign LORD God gave His Law – the Ten Commandments for everyone to meditate upon and wholeheartedly obey day and night.[58] The Law of God is the Sovereign LORD God’s Ten Commandments spoken from Mount Sinai, and then He wrote on the stone tablets given to His servant Moses.[59] The Sovereign LORD God wanted a world without idolatry, rebellion against parents, murder, senseless killings, sexual sins, fornication, adultery, lies, fraud, corruption, falsehood, robbery, theft, stealing, envy, and jealousy.[60] Importantly, the Sovereign LORD God brings His blessings and Spirit to everyone that delights and mediates on His Law and walks in His good ways and not evil.[61]
The Law of God and His covenants still play a role in believers’ lives – not as a means of salvation but as a moral and ethical guide to be obeyed out of love for the LORD God by the empowerment of the Holy Spirit.[62] The Sovereign LORD God’s moral Law requires EVERYONE to do good deeds and works for His glory because He is good.[63]Notably, the Holy Spirit of God is with those who love and obey the Sovereign LORD God.[64] People are often unaware of their sinfulness until they are made aware of their sinfulness by the LORD God and His Law.[65] The Holy Bible describes sin as dishonoring and rebelling against the LORD God and disobeying His Law – the Ten Commandments.[66]The Law of God revealed what is and is not sinful.[67] Furthermore, the Law of God is good and holy because the Law is Spiritual and brings insight, wisdom, and life.[68]
In the Old Testament, the holy prophets realized that humans needed more than a fresh start but an implanting of a new heart and new spirit to obey the Sovereign LORD God and His Law.[69] By nature, humans and their hearts are sinful, evil, and wicked.[70] The Law of God written on stone tablets was unable to change humanity's inward heart sinfulness and wickedness.[71] The holy prophets predicted the LORD God would come and circumcise our hearts and place His Law inside our hearts through His Holy Spirit so that we will know and obey the LORD as our God.[72] Furthermore, the holy prophets predicted the LORD God would come and teach everyone by His Holy Spirit the truth about Him and His Law.[73] Notably, the prophet Jeremiah predicted a new covenant when the Law of God would be written on our human hearts, and people would have one heart that honors the LORD God.[74] Also, the prophet Ezekiel predicted the LORD God would give His people an undivided and singleness of heart for Him, and He would place His Law by His Holy Spirit within their new hearts and not on stone tablets so they would obey the LORD God.[75] Sadly, Israel and her sister Judah could never followed the LORD God's commandments written on the stone tablets, which led to their Exile.[76]
C. Jesus’s Baptism and the Holy Spirit
With the opening of the New Testament, John the Baptist predicted that Jesus would baptize and pour out the Holy Spirit of God.[77] John the Baptist proclaimed that Jesus’s baptism with the Holy Spirit would bring a fiery cleansing of sin (regeneration) within believers’ hearts and minds and make believers of Jesus holy, sanctified, and pure by the Holy Spirit through faith in Jesus.[78] The Sovereign LORD God wants everyone to be holy and merciful like Him and His Son, Jesus.[79] Before returning to heaven, Jesus promised He would send the Holy Spirit of God to everyone who repents of their sins and believes Him and His Holy Father – the Sovereign LORD God.[80] Jesus’s baptism with the fiery Holy Spirit came on the day of Pentecost.[81]
The Holy Spirit is called the Promise of God that was poured out on believers of Jesus at Pentecost from the Sovereign LORD God through His Son, Jesus.[82] The Holy Bible declares that Jesus received the Holy Spirit of God from His Holy Father – the Sovereign LORD God of heaven and earth.[83] Then, the Sovereign LORD God and His Son Jesus graciously give and pour out the Holy Spirit to EVERYONE – Jews and Gentiles who have REPENTED (turn from their sins and evildoing) and believed in Jesus.[84] Both God the Father and His Son Jesus send the Holy Spirit.[85]
The Holy Bible teaches that everyone who REPENTS and turns to the Sovereign LORD God found in His Son Jesus receives the Holy Spirit of God that brings a new life and new heart from heaven.[86] Repentance means changing our hearts and minds away from sin and evildoing, living a life of goodness, and expressing sorrow for our sins and rebellion against the Sovereign LORD God.[87] To receive all of God’s goodness and Spirit, one must REPENT and TURN from sin and evildoing! There must be a personal lifestyle change away from Satan's dark deeds. Next, the Holy Bible teaches that everyone that BELIEVES in Jesus and His Gospel message receives the Holy Spirit of God.[88] Moreover, the Holy Spirit states that believers of Jesus must be baptized in Jesus’s Name to receive the Holy Spirit of God.[89] Finally, believers of Jesus must PRAY to the LORD God and ASK Him to bring the Holy Spirit of God into their lives.[90] The Presence of the living LORD God comes upon all faithful and repentant believers of Jesus through the Holy Spirit of God.[91] No condemnation or wrath from the Sovereign LORD God comes to those who believe and obey His Son, Jesus.[92]
D. Good News of Jesus
The Sovereign LORD God sent His Son Jesus to bring the new covenant predicted by His holy prophets of the Old Testament.[93] Jesus came to earth the first time – First Coming or Advent – to establish a new covenant relationship and obedience between His Holy Father – the Sovereign LORD God and humanity through faith in Him.[94] The prophet Isaiah predicted in the Old Testament that Jesus as God’s Servant would bring God’s grace, salvation, and light into the world.[95] Also, the prophet Jeremiah predicted this new covenant from the Old Testament.[96]
The Gospel message of Jesus – the Good News – is the power of God that changes and transforms our hearts from the inside out and brings a rebirth from heaven.[97] As God in human flesh (incarnate), Jesus is the grace and power of God by His sacrificial death to remove the barrier of sin and shame between His Holy Father and humankind.[98] Jesus’s sacrificial death and precious blood on Calvary’s Cross as the Passover Lamb of God was the basis for the new covenant and the Good News.[99] The new covenant – a covenant of pure grace – was put into effect with the shedding of Jesus’s blood on Calvary.[100] By Jesus’s once-for-all sacrifice, Jesus removed our sins and curses and established a new covenant relationship with the outpouring of God’s Holy Spirit within our hearts.[101] Jesus’s sacrifice for sins allowed the Holy Spirit of God to indwell inside believers of Jesus by faith as promised by Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the other Old Testament prophecies.[102]
Through our faith and obedience in Jesus, believers become the Temple of God where the Holy Spirit of God abides and lives.[103] Faithful believers of Jesus are forgiven, reborn from above, made holy (sanctified), and adopted into God’s Kingdom as His children.[104] Then, the Holy Spirit of God seals and fills believers of Jesus and sends His ministering angels to protect believers.[105] Because the Holy Spirit of God lives inside believers’ hearts, believers of Jesus want to worship and obey the Sovereign LORD God and live like Kingdom citizens, and no longer live a life of sin by rebellion against parents, hate, prejudice, sexual immorality, lying, stealing, selfishness, and jealousy of others possessions.[106]
Importantly, the transforming ministry of the Holy Spirit writes the Law of God in believers' minds and hearts, giving believers of Jesus new desires and helping believers of Jesus to obey the LORD God.[107] Under God's new covenant, the living LORD God’s eternal Law – the Ten Commandments – is written on our minds and hearts by His Holy Spirit of God and no longer on external stone tablets.[108] Jesus brings a fiery baptism of the Holy Spirit that cleanses and purifies believers’ hearts and minds and brings new life.[109] Believers of Jesus become Spirit-filled and receives freedom from the bondage of trying to keep the Law of God.[110] The Holy Spirit of God changes over and converts believers into the image of Jesus to obey the Law of God.[111] Everyone who places their faith in Jesus has the power of the life-giving Holy Spirit living within their hearts and minds that frees and delivers them from the power of sin that leads to death.[112] Essentially, the new covenant is the ministry of the Holy Spirit.[113]
Through faith and obedience to Jesus, the Holy Spirit of God gives everyone divine power and purification from heaven to live godly lives.[114] The Holy Spirit is the pure living water and fire from heaven that cleanses, washes, and sanctifies believers’ hearts and minds and makes believers holy and righteous through repentance of sins and faith in Jesus.[115]The LORD God of heaven pours the Holy Spirit of God into believers’ hearts to fill our hearts with His love and peace and removes away any unclean, evil, and tormenting spirit from our lives.[116] Through repentance and faith in Jesus, the living LORD God places His love inside our hearts through His Holy Spirit.[117] The Holy Spirit of God brings God’s love into our hearts and reminds believers that they are loved by the living LORD God and His Son Jesus.[118]
E. New Beginnings
The Holy Spirit of God brings believers of Jesus a new spiritual life and heart from heaven above through our wholehearted repentance (turning from sin and evildoing) and faith (trust and dependence) in the LORD God and His Son Jesus.[119] Our wholehearted faith and repentance in the LORD God found in His Son Jesus bring rebirth and renewal from heaven above and spiritual transformation through an outpouring of the Holy Spirit in our hearts.[120] Everyone finds an ABUNDANT, SPIRIT-FILLED, and RESTORED LIFE both NOW and for all ETERNITY through repentance and faith the LORD God found in His Son Jesus.[121] Jesus is the Lifegiving Spirit because He is the Author and Savior of Life.[122]
The coming of God’s Holy Spirit in a person’s life and heart through REPENTANCE (turning from sin and evildoing) and FAITH IN JESUS marks the beginning of salvation and rebirth from heaven.[123] As mentioned earlier, the new covenant with the Sovereign LORD God mediated by His Son Jesus brings new life and righteousness by the Holy Spirit of God.[124] By the Holy Spirit of God, the living LORD God and His Son Jesus convert our lives and transform believers into the image and nature of God with ever-increasing glory.[125] The Holy Spirit is the power of God that transforms and renews a person’s heart and mind through repentance and faith in Jesus and His teaching.[126] The Holy Spirit of God sanctifies, baptizes, and cleanses believers of Jesus of their sins and gives them a new life and heart from heaven.[127]
Additionally, the Holy Spirit empowers believers of Jesus to live in newness of life and to serve the LORD God’s purposes and plans with joy in His Kingdom NOW and the Kingdom’s fullness at Jesus’ Second Coming. Through faith in Jesus, believers die with Jesus, are raised to new life, and are united with God the Father and His Son Jesus so they can produce good fruit and actions.[128] This new life by the Holy Spirit fills believers with righteousness and holiness from the LORD God and breaks the power of sin and selfishness over our lives and hearts by giving believers self-control.[129]The Holy Spirit is God’s grace and divine power that provides believers with Jesus’s self-control and victory over our sinful desires to live godly lives.[130]
Whenever a person comes to Jesus by faith, that person becomes a new creation and receives a new beginning (a fresh start) and a new heart.[131] In other words, believers of Jesus receive a rebirth or a reset button by the Holy Spirit of God back to Genesis 1:26-28 and Genesis 5:1-2 to become a new creation from heaven.[132] Through obedience and faith in His Son Jesus, the living LORD God renews and reborn believers in Jesus from heaven by His Holy Spirit.[133] This new and heavenly rebirth causes believers to live for goodness, true righteousness, and love and no longer for selfishness, sinning, and evildoing.[134] Only repentance and faith in Jesus bring a NEW LIFE from heaven by a baptism of the Holy Spirit, so our lives are no longer dominated by sin, wickedness, and evildoing.[135]
When we come to Jesus by repentance and faith in Him, believers are circumcised not by a physical procedure, but Jesus performs a spiritual circumcision – the cutting away our sinful nature from within our hearts.[136] Only repentance and faith in Jesus as our Lord cause a breaking away from a life dominated by sin, selfishness, and evildoing.[137] Without Jesus, humans and their hearts are sinful and wicked.[138] However, the Holy Spirit of God comes through our faith in Jesus, cleanses our inward hearts, and guides believers in ways that please the living LORD God.[139] Through repentance and faith, Jesus baptizes and fills believers with the cleansing, washing (regeneration), and purifying fire of the Holy Spirit.[140]
F. Obeying the Law of God
The New Testament teaches that the new covenant with Jesus places the Sovereign LORD God’s Law – the Ten Commandments – inside our hearts and minds by the Holy Spirit of God through faith and obedience to Jesus as His disciple.[141] The Holy Spirit of God teaches and guides believers of Jesus in goodness and righteousness so they can fulfill and obey His Law in its true sense and intent.[142] The Holy Spirit of God NEVER leads people to sin.[143]Through faith in Jesus, the Holy Spirit gives and helps believers in Jesus with the divine power of the LORD God to love and worship Him and turn away from rebellion towards parents, murder, adultery, sexual sins, lying, stealing, and coveting others possessions. Believers of Jesus receive grace and empowerment from within by the life-giving and heavenly Holy Spirit to obey God’s Law so they will not walk by their sinful and fleshly nature.[144]
Through faith and obedience to Jesus, the Holy Spirit of God (the anointing) activates and empowers believers' hearts, minds, and motives that not only make us want to obey God's righteous Law but help and teach us to obey God and His righteous Law.[145] The Holy Spirit of God teaches believers God’s commandments and helps believers obey the LORD God’s commandments and produce good fruits.[146] In other words, the LORD God Himself internally gives believers of Jesus the desire and heart to follow His covenant – the Ten Commandments – through His Holy Spirit.[147] The Holy Spirit guides and changes our hearts so that we live in ways that please God and fulfill God's Law.[148] Believers of Jesus want to obey the Sovereign LORD God and His Son Jesus’s commandments, love and not hate one another and confess that Jesus is Lord and the Son of God.[149] The Holy Spirit is the divine Presence of God that changes believers’ inward hearts and guides believers in ways that please and obeys the living LORD God and produce good fruit.[150]
G. Unity with God
The living God – God the Father, God the Son (Jesus), and God the Spirit –wants everyone to be united and reconciled with Him as One.[151] The Sovereign LORD God was in His Son Jesus reconciling the world to Himself.[152] Whenever anyone accepts and trusts Jesus and His message, that person also receives the Holy Spirit and oneness and fellowship with God – the Father, the Son (Jesus), and the Holy Spirit.[153] Through faith and obedience to Jesus, believers join Jesus in Jesus’s baptism and death and receive forgiveness, reconciliation, and a new life by the Holy Spirit (power of God).[154] Then, the Sovereign LORD God and His Son Jesus by the Holy Spirit live and indwell within believers’ hearts and minds, and believers of Jesus are reconciled to God – God the Father, God the Son (Jesus), and God the Holy Spirit.[155] Believers’ reconciliation with God brings godly peace and access to the Sovereign LORD God of heaven and earth, and believers receive His mercy, grace, and JOY through the Holy Spirit of God.[156] There is inner joy and happiness, salvation (healing and safety), and heart peace from heaven by the Holy Spirit of God that comes through faith and obedience to Jesus.[157] The Holy Spirit of God brings believers of Jesus joy, happiness, and inner peace from heaven.[158] Jesus brings the Holy Spirit’s rest and peace of mind as believers trust and learns from Him.[159] Importantly, the Holy Spirit of God makes believers of Jesus aware they are loved by the Sovereign LORD God of heaven and earth.[160]
H. Help In Trouble
The Holy Spirit of God is called the Helper, Comforter, Advocate, and Counselor in the Holy Bible.[161] Jesus promised never to leave nor forsake believers that accept and obey Him by faith.[162] Do not let your hearts be trouble but trust and seek Jesus and find Jesus’s spiritual peace and rest.[163] The Holy Spirit of God helps and enables believers during testing, trials, tribulations, and troubles.[164] Believers of Jesus receive patience and persistence from the Holy Spirit of God to endure difficult problems and people.[165] In addition, the Holy Spirit encourages believers in their weakness and guides them in their daily prayers to heaven.[166] Even more, the Holy Spirit of God instructs believers on what to say during times of trouble and suffering.[167] The LORD God gives believers of Jesus a spirit not of fear but a clean, holy, and good Spirit.[168] Through our faith in Jesus, believers can complete boldly and confidently into the Sovereign LORD God’s spiritual presence and find His grace, peace, and mercy in times of trouble and pain.[169]
I. Holy Spirit Teaches and Guides
The Holy Spirit anoints and dwells within believers of Jesus to teach believers the truth about God the Father, His Son Jesus, and the Law of God.[170] The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth.[171] The Spirit of Truth confirms the Gospel message and the existence of God the Father and His Son, Jesus.[172] The Holy Spirit is God’s divine power that energizes Jesus’s followers to proclaim the Gospel message to the world.[173] Moreover, the Holy Spirit provides believers spiritual gifts to serve and help others.[174] Similarly, the Holy Spirit enables and empowers the church with spiritual gifts to grow and leads the church in prayer and worship.[175]
In addition, the Holy Spirit reveals and convicts everyone of sin and righteousness (personal integrity, godly character, and goodness) because the Holy Spirit is Truth.[176] The Holy Spirit teaches and guides believers of Jesus into truth, goodness, and righteousness.[177] The Holy Spirit becomes believers’ internal moral compass because He warns and leads believers of Jesus into the pathway of faithfulness, peace, and goodness and away from sin, evildoing, and Satan’s wickedness.[178] The Sovereign LORD God wants everyone to be faithful and good like Him showing goodness and trustworthiness towards others.[179]
The Holy Bible calls believers to be continually filled with the good fruit of the Holy Spirit.[180] Jesus taught our obedience to Him and His Father’s commandments bring the Holy Spirit of God, and He and His Father come to dwell and live inside our hearts and lives.[181] Jesus’s teaching is the same teaching of His Holy Father – the Sovereign LORD God.[182] Even more, the Holy Spirit of God fills believers of Jesus with wisdom, power, peace, and revelation.[183]Believers’ faith and obedience to Jesus and His commandments transform believers into Jesus’s disciples, and the fullness of God abides and dwells inside believers’ hearts.[184] Everyone who places their faith and trust in Jesus has the power of the life-giving Holy Spirit living within their hearts and minds that frees and delivers them from the power of sin that leads to death.[185] However, the Holy Scriptures warn believers of Jesus NEVER to use the Holy Spirit's freedom to return to Satan's life of sin and evildoing.[186]
As we follow and obey Jesus, the Holy Spirit helps, strengthens, and leads believers of Jesus away from selfishness, evildoing, and sinfulness and into all goodness, love, and joy.[187] The Holy Spirit is the Word of God to help believers turn from sin and Satan.[188] The Holy Bible teaches that those who rely on the Holy Spirit of God and follow the Holy Spirit’s leading will not sin – God’s Spirit will NEVER lead people into sin.[189] The Spirit of the living God changes and makes over our hearts through faith in Jesus, producing a good life and good fruit.[190] A person’s good fruits and good deeds are evidence of a godly life.[191] The Holy Bible calls everyone always to DO goodness, forgiveness, and kindness to others, not evil and vengeance.[192] The living LORD God's Presence through His Holy Spirit inside believers' hearts produces good fruit and a good Spirit of power, love, self-control, and a sound mind.[193] The fruits of the Holy Spirit of God are love (unselfish concerns for others), joy, inner peace, patience (how to act while waiting), kindness, goodness, faithfulness (trustworthy), gentleness, and self-control.[194] These same good fruits are the character and nature of the living LORD God.[195] The Sovereign LORD God and His Presence are holy, humble, and good, and He calls His people to be holy, humble, and good.[196] Like the LORD God and His Jesus, believers of Jesus are called to be gentle, meek, and humble and never prideful, boastful, and self-important.[197]
Equally important is that believers must also make an active decision to REPENT AND TURN from evildoing, selfishness, and Satan’s dark deeds and follow God found in His Son Jesus.[198] With this new life, believers are called to do what is true and good and live holy and godly lives.[199] Because God is holy, the Holy Spirit of God will not tolerate nor disregard our wickedness, disobedience, and evildoing.[200] Jesus did not give His believers the Holy Spirit and His grace so believers could live a life of hatred, orgies, drunkenness, witchcraft, worshipping other gods (idolatry), anger, envy, jealousy, arrogance, sexual sins, and division.[201] EVERYONE is accountable and responsible to the LORD God for their sins.[202] For example, King David was punished for his sinfulness against the Sovereign LORD God with his theft, coveting, and adulterous affair with Bathsheba and murder of her husband, Uriah.[203]
Jesus taught that everyone who sins and does Satan’s dark deeds become Satan’s slave.[204] Sin dishonors the Sovereign LORD God and disobeys His Law – the Ten Commandments.[205] Everyone that practices and commits sin, selfishness, and evildoing is lawless and devoid of the Holy Spirit.[206] The Presence of the living LORD God abandons those who do Satan’s dark deeds, and He pours out His wrath upon evildoers.[207] The LORD God allows evildoers to experience the consequences of following and obeying Satan.[208]
The Sovereign LORD God sent His Son Jesus into the world to take away our sinfulness and evildoing through faith in His sacrificial death and teach everyone to follow Jesus’s example of obedience to the commandments and goodness.[209]Everyone that follows and obeys Jesus does not practice sinfulness, Satan’s lawlessness, and evildoing.[210] Satan’s followers are sinful, lawless, rebellious, murderers, liars, adulterers, and evildoers, and there is no good within them.[211]True believers of Jesus follow and practice goodness and righteousness.[212]
Here is the Good News: The Holy Spirit of God HELPS and GUIDES believers to walk in righteousness and truth as we obey and follow God the Father and His Son Jesus’s commandments.[213] The Presence of God – God the Father, God the Son (Jesus), and the Holy Spirit – dwells and lives with everyone who loves God and obeys the Law of God.[214]Through faith and obedience in Jesus, Jesus sends the Holy Spirit of God into believers’ hearts and minds to sanctify and cleanse believers so we can walk in love, joy, peace, rest, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.[215] The Holy Spirit is the gift of joy, inner happiness, and peace from heaven given to all faithful and obedient believers of Jesus that seek Him.[216] Through faith in Jesus, the fullness of God and His peace live in believers through the Holy Spirit, and they are saved from destruction.[217]
A summary of ALL the Law, Psalms, and Prophets is to love and obey the LORD God with all our hearts, minds, and souls, and equally as important is to love one another – doing mercy, kindness, forgiveness, and nothing to harm others.[218] The Sovereign LORD God is love.[219] A true relationship with the Sovereign LORD God means loving and being kind and compassionate towards others and placing the needs of others ahead of yourself.[220] True faith in the LORD God will be expressed in acts of love and kindness toward others.[221] The Holy Spirit leads believers to obey the Law of Christ – to love and care for one another.[222] Everyone that is angry and hates another person is a murderer and not godly.[223] The Covenant or the Law of God required everyone to love, obey, and worship the Sovereign LORD God and love and care for one another by not rebelling against their parents and not killing, lying, stealing, coveting, and sexually abusing others.[224] The entire Holy Bible – the Law, Prophets, and Psalms – builds upon these two main commandments: Love God and love one another.[225]
[1] See e.g., Genesis 1:2; Psalm 139:7; Isaiah 66:1-3; Jeremiah 23:24-25; John 4:24; Acts 17:24; Hebrews 9:14.
[2] See e.g., Proverbs 8:22-31; Jeremiah 10:12, 16; Jeremiah 51:15, 19.
[3] See e.g., 1 Kings 8:27; Psalm 72:19; Psalm 139:7-12; Isaiah 6:3; Jeremiah 23:23-25; Amos 9:2-4; Acts 7:48-50; Acts 17:24; Revelation 1:8.
[4] See e.g., Luke 21:14-15; Acts 6:8-10; 1 Corinthians 2:10-11; 1 Corinthians 12:8.
[5] See e.g., 1 Corinthians 2:6-16.
[6] See e.g., Daniel 2:22; John 4:24; 2 Corinthians 3:17; 1 Timothy 1:17; 1 Timothy 6:16.
[7] See e.g., Psalm 18:9-14; Psalm 19:1-6; Psalm 29:3-9; Psalm 104:30; Psalm 135:7; Isaiah 44:3; Jeremiah 10:13; Jeremiah 51:16; Ezekiel 37:9-10; John 4:14; John 7:37-39; Acts 14:17; Romans 1:19-20.
[8] See e.g., Acts 1:8; Acts 2:24; Romans 8:11; Romans 15:19; 1 Corinthians 6:14; 1 Timothy 3:16; 1 Peter 3:18.
[9] See e.g., Deuteronomy 6:4-6; Isaiah 44:8; Isaiah 45:21; Matthew 6:9; Matthew 16:16; Luke 1:32, 35; John 1:1-5; John 20:21-22; 28; John 20:30-31. To discover more about the Holy Spirit and His works, read John chapters 14 through 16 and Romans 8.
[10] See e.g., Deuteronomy 4:35, 39; Deuteronomy 6:4; Matthew 28:19; John 1:1-3, 14, 18; John 10:30, 38; John 14:9-11; 20; John 17:11, 20-23; 1 Corinthians 8:4, 6; 1 Corinthians 12:4-6; 2 Corinthians 4:4; 2 Corinthians 13:14; Colossians 1:19; Colossians 2:9-10; 2 Thessalonians 2:13-14; Hebrews 1:3; 1 Peter 1:2; 1 John 5:6-7.
[11] See e.g., John 1:1; John 10:30, 38; John 12:45; John 14:9-11, 20; John 17:11; 1 John 5:7.
[12] See e.g., Acts 16:7; Romans 8:9-10; Galatians 4:6; Philippians 1:19; 1 Peter 1:11.
[13] See e.g., Genesis 1:2; Genesis 2:7; Exodus 20:11; Psalm 33:6; Psalm 104:30; John 1:1-3; Acts 4:24.
[14] See e.g., Genesis 1:1-3; Genesis 2:7; Psalm 33:6; Isaiah 55:11; John 1:1-3; Acts 17:24-25; Colossians 1:16-17; Hebrews 1:2-3; 1 John 1:1; 1 John 5:20.
[15] See e.g., Genesis 2:7; Job 33:4; Psalm 104:30; Isaiah 42:5; Acts 17:25.
[16] See e.g., Proverbs 30:4-5; Romans 15:4; 1 Timothy 6:11; 2 Timothy 3:16-17.
[17] See e.g., Ephesians 6:17; Hebrews 4:12.
[18] See e.g., 2 Samuel 23:2; Mark 12:36; Acts 1:16; Acts 28:25-27; Hebrews 3:7-11; Hebrews 10:15-16.
[19] See e.g., 1 Samuel 10:6, 10; 2 Kings 17:13; 2 Chronicles 36:15-16; Nehemiah 9:30; Jeremiah 7:25-26; Jeremiah 25:3-4; Micah 3:8; Zechariah 7:8-12; 2 Peter 1:19-21.
[20] See e.g., Luke 24:26-27, 44-45; John 5:46-47; Acts 10:43; Acts 13:23, 26-30, 32-34, 37-39; Acts 24:14-16; Acts 26:5-6, 22-23; Romans 1:2-4; Romans 3:21; Romans 9:4; 2 Peter 1:19-21.
[21] See e.g., Genesis 21:22; Genesis 26:28; Exodus 31:2-3; Numbers 27:18; Deuteronomy 34:9; Judges 3:9-10; 1 Samuel 16:13; Daniel 4:8-9, 18; Daniel 5:11, 14.
[22] See e.g., Exodus 31:1-5; Exodus 35:30-31; Numbers 11:24-25; Deuteronomy 34:9; Judges 3:10; Judges 6:34; 1 Samuel 10:6, 10; 1 Samuel 16:13-14; Ezekiel 11:5; Zechariah 4:6.
[23] See e.g., Numbers 24:2; Isaiah 63:11.
[24] See e.g., Genesis 39:2-4, 21, 23; Genesis 40:8-22; Genesis 41:12, 15, 33, 38-39; Genesis 44:15; Acts 7:9-10.
[25] See Genesis 41:45.
[26] See e.g., Luke 1:15, 47, 67; Acts 6:3-5; Acts 4:8; Acts 4:8, 31; Acts 9:17; Acts 11:24; Acts 13:9, 52.
[27] See e.g., Isaiah 11:2; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 61:1-2; Matthew 3:11, 16-17; Mark 1:10; Luke 3:22; Luke 4:1, 14, 18-19; John 1:32-33; Acts 2:22; Acts 10:37-38.
[28] See e.g., Matthew 1:18; Luke 1:34-35.
[29] See e.g., Matthew 4:23; John 3:2, 34-35; Acts 2:22; Acts 10:38; Romans 1:3-4.
[30] See e.g., Matthew 12:15-21; Luke 4:18-19.
[31] See e.g., Isaiah 42:1-4; Matthew 3:16; Matthew 12:17-18; Mark 1:10; Luke 3:22; Luke 4:18-19; John 1:32-33; Acts 10:38.
[32] See e.g., Isaiah 9:6-7; Isaiah 11:1-5; Isaiah 61:1-2; see also Luke 4:18-19.
[33] See e.g., Isaiah 11:4-5; Isaiah 42:1-9; Isaiah 49:1-13; Isaiah 50:4-9; Isaiah 52:13-53-12; Jeremiah 23:5; John 3:16; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 7:26; 1 Peter 1:18-19; 1 Peter 2:21-22.
[34] See e.g., Isaiah 11:1-2; Matthew 7:24; John 15:5-6; 1 Corinthians 1:2, 24, 30; Colossians 2:2-3.
[35] See e.g., John 1:1-5; Colossians 2:2-3; Hebrews 1:2.
[36] See e.g., Luke 2:52; Colossians 2:2-3.
[37] See e.g., Matthew 3:16-17; Matthew 12:18; Mark 1:9-12; Luke 3:22; Luke 4:1, 18-19; John 1:32-33.
[38] See e.g., Ephesians 6:12; 1 Timothy 4:1-2.
[39] See e.g., 1 Kings 22:21-23; 2 Chronicles 18:20-22; Matthew 7:15; Mark 1:23; Mark 5:1-13; John 8:44; 2 Thessalonians 2:9; Revelation 13:14; Revelation 16:13-14.
[40] See e.g., 1 Samuel 16:14-16; 1 Samuel 18:10, 12.
[41] See e.g., Psalm 5:4-6; Romans 1:28; Ephesians 2:2-3; 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12; 1 John 3:8, 10; Jude 1:18-19.
[42] See e.g., Romans 1:28-32.
[43] See e.g., Matthew 8:16; Matthew 12:22; Mark 1:23-27, 34; Luke 4:40-41; Luke 11:14-15.
[44] See e.g., Matthew 12:28, 32.
[45] See e.g., Matthew 10:1; Mark 3:14-15; Mark 6:7; Acts 5:16; Acts 16:16-18.
[46] See e.g., Matthew 10:28; 1 Thessalonians 5:23; Revelation 6:9.
[47] See e.g., Exodus 20:7; Deuteronomy 6:4-6; Deuteronomy 10:12-13; Deuteronomy 28:58; Joshua 22:5; Psalm 86:10; Isaiah 43:10; Isaiah 44:6-8; Matthew 22:37; Luke 10:27.
[48] See e.g., Romans 1:25; Romans 9:5.
[49] See e.g., Psalm 103:1-2, 22; Psalm 104:1, 35.
[50] See e.g., Psalm 19:7-8; Psalm 26:9; Psalm 35:9-10; Psalm 84:2; Ecclesiastes 12:7; Luke 1:46-47.
[51] See e.g., Deuteronomy 4:29; Deuteronomy 6:5; Hebrews 4:12.
[52] See e.g., Deuteronomy 30:2; Psalm 6:3; Psalm 23:2-3; Psalm 42:5, 11; Hebrews 6:19.
[53] See e.g., Ezekiel 18:20.
[54] See e.g., Genesis 4:7, 26; Genesis 6:9; Genesis 17:1; Genesis 18:19; Deuteronomy 10:12-13; Deuteronomy 11:1, 22; Joshua 22:5; Joshua 23:11.
[55] See e.g., Genesis 15:6; Habakkuk 2:2-4; Romans 1:17; Galatians 3:11; Romans 3:21.
[56] See e.g., 1 Chronicles 28:9; Jeremiah 9:23-24; John 17:3; Hebrews 10:37; Hebrews 11:6.
[57] See e.g., Genesis 6:3; Ephesians 4:30.
[58] See e.g., Exodus 20:1-17; Deuteronomy 5:1-21; Deuteronomy 6:6-8; Deuteronomy 11:18; Joshua 1:8; Joshua 23:6; Psalm 1:2; Psalm 37:30-31; Psalm 40:8; Isaiah 51:7; John 14:15; 1 John 5:2-3.
[59] See e.g., Exodus 20:1-17; Exodus 24:12; Exodus 31:18; Exodus 32:15-16; Exodus 34:1-5, 27-29; Deuteronomy 4:11-13; Deuteronomy 5:22; Deuteronomy 9:9-17; Deuteronomy 10:1-5.
[60] See e.g., Exodus 20:1-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-21; Matthew 15:18-20; Romans 13:9, 13; Galatians 5:19-21; Colossians 3:5-6; 1 Thessalonians 1:9; 1 Timothy 1:9-10; 1 John 5:21.
[61] See e.g., Leviticus 26:3-13; Deuteronomy 28:1-14; Joshua 1:7-8; 2 Chronicles 15:1-2; Psalm 1:1-3, 6; Proverbs 4:14; Jeremiah 17:7-8; Galatians 6:7-10; James 1:21-25.
[62] See Zondervan NIV Study Bible (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2008), pp. 1749-1750, footnote to Romans 8:4.
[63] See e.g., Genesis 6:9; Job 1:1; Psalm 18:20-24; Micah 6:6-8; Matthew 5:3-10, 13-16; Romans 12:9-21; Galatians 6:9; Ephesians 2:10; Hebrews 10:24; Hebrews 13:15-16.
[64] See e.g., 2 Chronicles 15:2.
[65] See e.g., Psalm 51:4-6; Isaiah 6:3, 5-7; Revelation 4:8.
[66] See e.g., Exodus 20:1-17; Romans 3:20, 31.
[67] See e.g., Romans 3:20; Romans 7:7-8; Galatians 3:19-21, 24.
[68] See e.g., Psalm 19:7-8; Romans 7:12, 14, 16.
[69] See e.g., Isaiah 32:15; Isaiah 44:3; Jeremiah 32:38-40; Ezekiel 11:19-21; Ezekiel 36:24-27; Ezekiel 39:29; Joel 2:28-29; Zechariah 12:10.
[70] See e.g., Genesis 6:5; Genesis 8:21; Ecclesiastes 9:3; Jeremiah 17:9-10.
[71] See e.g., Romans 7:1-25; Romans 8:3.
[72] See e.g., Jeremiah 31:31-34; cf. 2 Corinthians 3:3; Hebrews 8:8-13.
[73] See e.g., Nehemiah 9:30; Isaiah 54:13; John 6:44-45; John 14:26.
[74] See Jeremiah 31:31-34; Jeremiah 32:39-40.
[75] Ezekiel 11:18-21; Ezekiel 36:24-27; Ezekiel 37:14; see also Exodus 24:12; Exodus 31:18; Exodus 34:15-16; Psalm 40:8; Isaiah 40:8; Jeremiah 31:33; 2 Corinthians 3:3; 2 Corinthians 5:17.
[76] See e.g., 2 Kings 17:7-23; 2 Kings 25:1-21.
[77] See e.g., Matthew 3:11; Mark 1:8; Luke 3:16-17; John 1:26, 33.
[78] See e.g., Matthew 3:11; Luke 3:16-17; Acts 1:5; Romans 5:5; 1 Corinthians 1:2, 30; 2 Corinthians 1:21-22; Galatians 4:6; Ephesians 1:13; 1 Thessalonians 4:7-8; Titus 3:5-6; 1 John 3:24.
[79] See e.g., Leviticus 11:44-45; Leviticus 19:2; Leviticus 20:7, 26; Luke 6:36; Ephesians 5:1-2; Colossians 3:12; 1 Peter 1:15-17.
[80] See e.g., Leviticus 26:3, 11-13; Deuteronomy 31:6; John 7:38-39; John 14:15-17, 21, 23, 26; Acts 11:16-17.
[81] See Luke 24:49; Acts 1:4, 8; Acts 2:3-4, 14-21, 33, 36.
[82] See e.g., Joel 2:28; Matthew 3:11; Luke 24:49; John 14:16-17, 26; John 15:26; John 16:7; Acts 1:4-5; Acts 2:1-4, 17-18, 33, 38; Acts 10:45.
[83] See e.g., John 15:26; Acts 1:4-5; Acts 2:33.
[84] See e.g., Mark 1:8; John 14:15-21, 23-24; John 15:4-5; Acts 2:38; Acts 5:32; Acts 11:15-18.
[85] See e.g., John 3:34; John 4:10-14; John 7:37-39; John 14:16; John 20:22.
[86] See e.g., Ezekiel 18:30-32; John 3:3-8; Acts 2:17-18, 37-39; Acts 10:44-45; Acts 11:15-18; Acts 15:7-9; Acts 17:30; 2 Corinthians 3:6.
[87] See e.g., see Matthew 3:2, 8, 10; Matthew 4:17; Luke 3:9-14; Acts 26:20.
[88] See e.g., Acts 11:15-18; Acts 15:7-9; Romans 8:9; Galatians 3:2-3, 14; Ephesians 1:13.
[89] See e.g., Matthew 3:2, 6; Acts 19:1-6.
[90] See e.g., Luke 11:13; Acts 8:14-15.
[91] See e.g., John 15:26; Acts 2:38-39; Acts 5:32; Acts 11:15-17; 1 John 2:4, 6; 1 John 3:24; 1 John 4:13, 15.
[92] See e.g., John 3:16-18, 36; Romans 5:9; Romans 8:1; 1 Thessalonians 1:10.
[93] See e.g., Matthew 26:26-28; Mark 14:22-24; Luke 22:19-20; 1 Corinthians 11:23-25; Hebrews 10:9-10.
[94] See e.g., Matthew 1:21; Matthew 26:28; John 1:14, 16; Luke 22:20; John 8:36; Hebrews 2:14; Hebrews 7:22; Hebrews 8:6, 8-12; Hebrews 9:14-15; Hebrews 10:5-7, 15-18, 35; Hebrews 12:24; 1 John 3:5.
[95] Isaiah 42:6-7; see also John 1:4-5, 14, 16-18; Acts 9:15; Acts 26:17-18.
[96] Jeremiah 31:31-34; see also Hebrews 8:8-12.
[97] See Romans 1:16-17.
[98] See e.g., John 1:14, 16-18; John 14:6; Acts 11:23; Romans 1:16-17; 1 Corinthians 1:18; 1 Corinthians 15:1-2; Hebrews 9:11-15.
[99] See e.g., Romans 5:15; Hebrews 9:12-15, 26, 28.
[100] See e.g., Matthew 26:28; Mark 14:24; Luke 22:20; 1 Corinthians 11:25; 2 Corinthians 3:6; Hebrews 9:15; Hebrews 12:24.
[101] See e.g., Romans 5:5; Romans 8:5, 15-16; Galatians 3:13-14; Galatians 4:4-7.
[102] See e.g., Jeremiah 31:31-34; Jeremiah 32:39-40; Ezekiel 11:18-21; Ezekiel 36:24-27; 2 Corinthians 3:3.
[103] See e.g., Ezekiel 37:26-28; John 17:21-23; Ephesians 2:22; 1 Corinthians 3:16-17; 1 Corinthians 6:19-20; 2 Corinthians 6:16; Ephesians 2:21-22; 1 Peter 2:5; Revelation 3:12.
[104] See e.g., Matthew 12:50; Luke 8:21; John 1:12-13; John 15:12, 14; John 17:19; Romans 3:28; Romans 5:1-2; Romans 8:14, 16; 1 Corinthians 1:30; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Galatians 2:16-21; Galatians 3:11, 24, 26; Galatians 4:4-5; Ephesians 1:3-6, 13; 1 Timothy 1:15; Titus 2:11; Titus 3:4-5; Hebrews 2:11; Hebrews 10:10, 12, 14, 29; Hebrews 13:12.
[105] See e.g., 2 Corinthians 1:21-22; 2 Corinthians 5:5; Ephesians 1:13-14; Hebrews 1:14.
[106] See e.g., Exodus 20:1-17; Jeremiah 31:33; Matthew 5:3-12; Ephesians 2:10; Hebrews 8:10; Hebrews 10:16; 1 John 5:18; Revelation 21:7-8.
[107] See e.g., Jeremiah 31:33-34; John 16:7-11; Hebrews 8:10; Hebrews 10:16.
[108] 2 Corinthians 3:3; Hebrews 8:10-11; Hebrews 10:16-17; see also Jeremiah 31:31-34.
[109] See e.g., Matthew 3:11-12; Luke 3:16-17; John 1:33; John 3:3-8; Acts 1:5; Acts 2:3-4, 33, 38-39; Acts 11:16-17; 1 Corinthians 1:2, 30; 1 Thessalonians 4:7-8.
[110] See e.g., John 8:31-32; 2 Corinthians 3:17.
[111] See e.g., Romans 8:29; 1 Corinthians 15:49; 2 Corinthians 3:18; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Colossians 3:10.
[112] See e.g., Romans 8:2-3.
[113] See e.g., 2 Corinthians 3:5-8.
[114] See e.g., John 3:3-8; Acts 15:8-9; 2 Peter 1:3-4.
[115] See e.g., John 4:14; John 7:37-39; 2 Thessalonians 2:13; Titus 3:5-6.
[116] See e.g., 1 Samuel 16:13-14; Mark 1:41; Luke 6:18-19; John 13:1; John 14:15-17, 21, 23-24; John 15:3-6, 26; Romans 5:1-2, 5, 8; Romans 8:23; 2 Corinthians 5:5, 7; Galatians 4:6; Galatians 5:22-23; Titus 3:4-6.
[117] See e.g., Romans 5:5; Titus 3:5-6.
[118] See e.g., Romans 5:5; Romans 8:35-39.
[119] See e.g., John 1:12-13; John 3:3-8, 14-17; John 6:63; John 10:10; Acts 5:32; Acts 10:44-48; Acts 11:15-18; Acts 19:2; Romans 5:5; Romans 8:9-11, 14-17; 1 Corinthians 15:45; 2 Corinthians 1:22; 2 Corinthians 3:6, 16-17; 2 Corinthians 5:5; Galatians 3:2-5; Galatians 4:6; Ephesians 1:3-6, 13-14; Titus 3:5-6; 1 Peter 1:22-23; 1 John 4:15-16.
[120] See e.g., John 3:3-8, 16; 1 Corinthians 1:30; 2 Corinthians 5:17, 21; Galatians 3:2-5; Galatians 5:5; Ephesians 2:8-10; Philippians 3:9; Titus 3:5-6.
[121] See e.g., John 1:4-5; John 3:15-16; John 4:14; John 5:21; John 6:39-40, 44; John 10:9-10; John 11:25; John 14:6; John 17:3; John 20:30-31; Acts 3:15; Acts 4:12; Acts 5:31; Romans 8:9-11; 1 Corinthians 15:22; 1 John 4:9; 1 John 5:11.
[122] See e.g., John 5:21; Acts 3:14; 1 Corinthians 15:45.
[123] See John 3:3-8, 15-16, 36; John 6:47; John 7:37-39.
[124] See e.g., Jeremiah 31:31-34; John 3:3-8, 15-17, 36; John 6:63, 68; Romans 7:6; 2 Corinthians 3:6; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Hebrews 8:8-13.
[125] See e.g., 1 Corinthians 3:18.
[126] See e.g., John 6:63, 68; Romans 1:16-17; 2 Corinthians 3:6, 17-18; 2 Corinthians 5:17.
[127] See e.g., Acts 15:8-9; Acts 22:16; Acts 26:18; 1 Corinthians 1:2, 30; 1 Corinthians 6:11; Galatians 3:2, 14; Hebrews 10:22; 1 Peter 1:2.
[128] See e.g., Matthew 7:15-20; John 15:5-6; John 17:11, 21-23; Romans 6:2; Romans 7:4; Galatians 2:19-20; Galatians 5:22-23.
[129] See e.g., Romans 6:7, 11; Romans 8:1-2; Galatians 5:16, 23; Ephesians 4:23-24.
[130] See e.g., Proverbs 16:32; Romans 6:6; Galatians 5:24; Titus 2:11-12; 1 Peter 5:8-9; 2 Peter 1:3-7.
[131] See e.g., Genesis 1:26-28; 2 Corinthians 5:17.
[132] See e.g., John 1:12-13; John 3:3; Galatians 6:15; 1 Peter 1:1:22-23.
[133] See e.g., John 1:13, John 3:3-8; John 6:63; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Ephesians 2:4-5, 8-9; Colossians 2:13; Titus 3:5; 1 Peter 1:2-3, 23; 1 John 5:1.
[134] See e.g., 1 John 2:29; 1 John 3:5-9; 1 John 4:7; 1 John 5:18.
[135] See e.g., Matthew 3:11-12; Mark 1:8; Luke 3:16-17; John 1:4-5, 26, 33; John 3:3-8; John 10:10; John 14:6; Romans 7:24-25; Romans 8:1-2; Acts 1:5; 1 Corinthians 1:2, 30; 1 Thessalonians 4:7-8.
[136] Colossians 2:11; see also Deuteronomy 10:16; Deuteronomy 30:6; Jeremiah 4:4.
[137] See e.g., Acts 16:30-31; Romans 7:24-25; Romans 10:9-13; 1 Corinthians 12:3; Philippians 2:11.
[138] See e.g., Genesis 6:5; Genesis 8:21; Ecclesiastes 9:3; Jeremiah 17:9-10; Romans 7:18-20.
[139] See e.g., Acts 2:32-33, 37-38; Acts 5:31-32; Acts 10:43-48; Acts 11:15-18; Acts 15:7-9; Romans 2:28-29; Romans 7:24-25; Romans 8:5-14; Galatians 3:2, 14; Galatians 5:22-25; Ephesians 1:13-14.
[140] See e.g., Matthew 3:11; Luke 3:16; Luke 24:49; John 1:33; John 7:38-39; Acts 1:4-5, 8; Acts 2:1-4, 33, 38-39; Acts 10:44-45; Titus 3:5-6; Hebrews 10:10.
[141] See e.g., Jeremiah 31:31-34; John 8:31-32; Hebrews 8:8-13; Hebrews 10:15-18; 1 John 3:24.
[142] See e.g., Galatians 3:2, 5, 14, Galatians 4:6; Galatians 5:16-26.
[143] See e.g., Romans 8:5-14; Galatians 5:22-23.
[144] See e.g., Jeremiah 31:33; Luke 24:49; John 1:14, 16-18; Acts 2:33; Romans 1:16-17; Romans 3:24, 31; Romans 4:16; Romans 5:5, 15-21; Romans 6:12, 14; Romans 7:18-19, 22-23; Romans 8:9-13; Galatians 5:16-17; Ephesians 3:19-20; 1 John 20, 27.
[145] See e.g., John 14:16-17, 26; John 16:13; Philippians 2:12-13; Hebrews 8:11.
[146] See e.g., John 14:15-18, 26; John 15:26; John 16:13; 1 Corinthians 2:13; Galatians 5:22-23; Philippians 2:12-13.
[147] See e.g., Philippians 2:13; Hebrews 13:20-21; 1 John 2:20, 27.
[148] See e.g., Galatians 5:22-23; Romans 8:5-14.
[149] See e.g., 1 John 2:9-11; 1 John 3:23-24; 1 John 5:2-3, 5.
[150] See e.g., Romans 2:28-29; Romans 8:5-14; Galatians 5:22-25; 2 Peter 1:3-7.
[151] See e.g., Deuteronomy 6:4-6; John 17:2-3, 21-23.
[152] See e.g., Romans 5:10-11; 2 Corinthians 5:18-19; Colossians 1:19-22.
[153] See e.g., John 17:11, 20-26; 1 Corinthians 6:17; Galatians 3:28; 1 John 1:3; 1 John 3:24.
[154] See e.g., Romans 6:3-6, 11; Romans 8:11; 1 Corinthians 6:19; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Galatians 2:19-20; Galatians 3:27; Galatians 5:24; Ephesians 2:14-22; Colossians 2:12, 20; Colossians 3:1-3; Titus 3:5; 1 Peter 2:24.
[155] See e.g., John 14:15-17, 21-23; John 15:1-17; John 17:2-3, 21-23; Romans 5:1-2, 5, 10-11; 1 Corinthians 3:16-17; 1 Corinthians 6:19-20; 2 Corinthians 5:18; Ephesians 2:18; Ephesians 3:12; Philippians 1:20; Philippians 2:12-13.
[156] See e.g., Luke 2:14; John 1:14, 16-18; John 15:5-6, 10-11; Romans 5:1-2, 11-12; 2 Corinthians 5:18; Galatians 5:22-23; Ephesians 2:18; Ephesians 3:12; Hebrews 4:14-16; Hebrews 10:19.
[157] See e.g., Luke 2:14; Luke 24:47; John 14:15-18, 26-27; John 16:23-24, 33; John 17:13; Acts 4:12; Acts 10:43; Acts 13:23. John 16:24, 33; John 17:13.
[158] See e.g., Psalm 32:11; Psalm 64:10; Isaiah 26:3-4; Isaiah 25:9; Romans 5:1; Romans 14:17; Ephesians 2:14-17; Philippians 4:4-7; 1 Peter 1:8
[159] See e.g., Matthew 11:28-30; John 16:33; Philippians 2:5.
[160] See e.g., Romans 5:5.
[161] See e.g., John 14:16, 26; John 15:26; John 16:7.
[162] See e.g., Matthew 1:23; Matthew 28:20; John 12:26; John 14:3, 16, 18, 23; Hebrews 13:5-6.
[163] See e.g., John 14:1, 27; John 16:22, 24; John 20:19, 21, 26; Ephesians 2:14; Philippians 4:7; Colossians 3:15; 2 Timothy 1:7.
[164] See e.g., Romans 5:3-5; Philippians 1:19-21.
[165] See e.g., Galatians 5:22; Ephesians 4:1-2; Colossians 1:10-11; James 5:7-8, 10.
[166] See e.g., John 16:26; John 16:7; Romans 8:26; Ephesians 6:18.
[167] See e.g., Matthew 10:19-20; Luke 12:12; John 14:26.
[168] See e.g., Mark 5:1, 5-8, 15; Acts 1:8; Acts 2:33; Acts 5:32; Romans 8:15; 2 Timothy 1:7, 14.
[169] See e.g., John 16:33; Romans 5:1-2, 10-11; 2 Corinthians 5:18-19; Ephesians 2:18; Ephesians 3:12; Hebrews 4:16.
[170] See e.g., Jeremiah 31:33-34; John 1:14, 17; John 14:6, 15-17; 1 Corinthians 2:12-16; Hebrews 8:10-11; 1 John 2:27; 1 John 5:6-8.
[171] See e.g., John 14:17; John 15:26; John 16:13; 1 John 4:6.
[172] See e.g., John 4:24; John 14:6, 17; John 15:26-27; John 16:13-15; Romans 1:16-17; 1 Corinthians 1:18, 24; 1 Corinthians 2:6-16; 2 Corinthians 3:17.
[173] See e.g., Acts 1:8; Acts 4:13, 29, 31; Acts 6:9-10.
[174] See e.g., Romans 12:3-8; 1 Corinthians 12:4-11; Ephesians 4:4, 11-12.
[175] See e.g., Acts 9:31; 1 Corinthians 12:1-31; 1 Corinthians 14:12.
[176] See e.g., John 14:17; John 16:7-11.
[177] See e.g., Psalm 51:10-22; Psalm 143:10; John 14:17, 26; John 16:13; 1 John 4:6.
[178] See e.g., John 16:8; Romans 8:1-4; Romans 15:13-14; Ephesians 5:9.
[179] See e.g., 1 Chronicles 16:34; Psalm 31:19; Psalm 37:3; Psalm 106:1; Psalm 107:1; 1 Corinthians 1:9; 1 Corinthians 10:13; Hebrews 10:23; 1 John 1:9.
[180] See e.g., Ephesians 5:8-9, 18; Galatians 5:22-23.
[181] See e.g., John 14:15-17, 20-24; John 15:10; 12; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 4:4-6, 12-13; 1 John 5:2-3, 7.
[182] See e.g., John 7:16-17; John 8:28; John 12:49-50; John 14:10, 21, 23-24.
[183] See e.g., Luke 21:14-15; John 16:33; Acts 6:8-10; Romans 15:13-14; Ephesians 1:17-20; Ephesians 3:16-19; Philippians 4:19.
[184] See e.g., John 13:34-35; John 15:7-8, 10, 12; 2 John 1:9.
[185] See e.g., John 8:31-32; Romans 6:17-19; Romans 8:2-3; Hebrews 2:14-15.
[186] See e.g., Romans 12:1-2; Galatians 5:13.
[187] See e.g., Romans 6:6, 14, 20, 22; Romans 12:1-2; Galatians 5:13, 16-26; Ephesians 5:8-9; James 1:25-27; 1 Peter 2:16-17.
[188] See e.g., Ephesians 6:17; Hebrews 4:12.
[189] See e.g., Romans 8:5-14; Galatians 5:16-26.
[190] See e.g., Galatians 5:22-23.
[191] See e.g., Matthew 5:1-10, 13-16; Matthew 7:15-20; Matthew 12:33-35; Luke 6:43-45; James 3:12.
[192] See e.g., Romans 12:9-10, 17, 21; 1 Corinthians 13:4-7; Galatians 6:10; Ephesians 2:10; Colossians 3:12-14; 1 Thessalonians 5:15; 1 Peter 3:8-9.
[193] See e.g., Romans 8:29; Galatians 5:22-23.
[194] See e.g., Romans 14:17; Galatians 5:22-23; Ephesians 4:32.
[195] See e.g., Exodus 34:5-7, Numbers 14:18; 2 Chronicles 30:9; Nehemiah 9:17; Psalm 86:15; Psalm 103:8; Jeremiah 9:24; Joel 2:13; Jonah 4:2; James 5:11.
[196] See e.g., Exodus 3:5; Exodus 15:11; Exodus 19:5-6; Leviticus 11:44-45; Leviticus 19:2; Leviticus 20:7, 26; Joshua 5:15; 2 Chronicles 5:13; Psalm 51:11-12; Psalm 106:1; Isaiah 6:3; Isaiah 57:15; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Peter 1:15-16; 1 Peter 2:9-10; Revelation 4:8.
[197] See e.g., Zechariah 9:9; Matthew 11:29; Isaiah 66:2; Matthew 5:5; Ephesians 4:1-2; Colossians 3:12.
[198] See e.g., Acts 2:38-39; Romans 12:1-2; Ephesians 4:17-5:20; James 1:27.
[199] See e.g., Leviticus 11:44-45; Leviticus 19:2; Leviticus 20:7, 26; Romans 6:13-14, 19-20; Romans 12:21; Galatians 5:19-21; Ephesians 4:24; Colossians 3:12; 1 Thessalonians 4:7; 1 Peter 1:13-16; 1 Peter 2:5; 1 John 3:3.
[200] See e.g., Genesis 6:3; 1 Samuel 16:13-14; Romans 1:18.
[201] See e.g., Romans 6:1-2; Galatians 5:19-21.
[202] See e.g., Ezekiel 18:4, 20; Ezekiel 33:10-20.
[203] 2 Samuel 11:2-5, 14-17, 27; 2 Samuel 12:7-12; see also Genesis 20:5-6; Genesis 39:7-9.
[204] See e.g., John 8:34-35; Romans 6:16-20; 2 Peter 2:19.
[205] See e.g., Exodus 20:1-17; Romans 3:20, 31.
[206] See e.g., 1 John 3:4, 8; 1 John 5:17; Jude 1:18-19.
[207] See e.g., Romans 1:18-19, 24.
[208] See e.g., Romans 1:24, 26, 28.
[209] See e.g., Isaiah 53:11-12; Matthew 7:12, 24-27; John 3:16; Acts 10:38; 1 Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 9:26-28; 1 Peter 2:21-24; 1 John 3:5, 8; 23-24; 1 John 4:9.
[210] See e.g., Matthew 7:21-23; 1 Thessalonians 5:22; 1 John 2:4-6; 1 John 3:6.
[211] See e.g., Genesis 4:4-8; John 8:44; 1 John 3:8, 10, 12.
[212] See e.g., 1 John 2:29; 1 John 3:7, 9; 1 John 5:18.
[213] See e.g., John 14:15-18, 21, 23.
[214] See e.g., Leviticus 26:3, 11-12; 1 Chronicles 28:8-9; 2 Chronicles 15:2; Nehemiah 1:9; John 14:21, 23-24; John 17:3, 21-23; 1 John 2:5-6; 1 John 4:12-13; 1 John 5:2-3.
[215] See e.g., Matthew 11:28-30; Romans 14:17; 1 Corinthians 12:4-6; Galatians 5:22-23; Philippians 2:13; 1 Thessalonians 5:23; Hebrews 13:20-21.
[216] See e.g., John 14:27; John 15:11-12; John 16:7, 33; Acts 2:33; Acts 5:31-32; Romans 5:1; Ephesians 2:14-17; Philippians 4:4-7.
[217] See e.g., John 3:15-17, 36; John 16:33; Romans 8:14-17; Romans 10:9; 1 John 4:15.
[218] See e.g., Leviticus 19:16-18; Deuteronomy 6:4-6; Deuteronomy 10:12-13; 1 Samuel 15:22-23; Isaiah 1:11-17; Hosea 6:6; Matthew 7:12; Matthew 12:7; Matthew 22:34-40; John 13:34-35; John 15:12; Romans 12:9-10, 21; Romans 13:10; Galatians 5:6, 14-15; Ephesians 4:31; 1 John 2:9-10; 1 John 4:7, 11-12, 20-21.
[219] See e.g., Exodus 34:6; Nehemiah 9:17; John 3:16; Romans 5:8; 1 John 4:8, 16.
[220] See e.g., Luke 6:36; John 13:34-35; 1 Corinthians 13:4-7; 1 John 3:11.
[221] See e.g., Leviticus 19:16-18; Galatians 5:6, 14-15; 1 Thessalonians 1:3.
[222] See e.g., John 13:34-35; John 15:10, 12; Galatians 5:6, 14; Galatians 6:2.
[223] See e.g., Matthew 5:21-26; Galatians 5:20-21; 1 John 3:15.
[224] See e.g., Exodus 20:12-17; Exodus 21:12; Exodus 22:21-22; Leviticus 19:18; Deuteronomy 5:16-21; Matthew 5:43; Matthew 7:12; Matthew 19:16-19; Matthew 22:39; Mark 12:31; Luke 10:27; John 13:34-35; Romans 13:8-10; Galatians 5:14; 1 Thessalonians 4:9; James 2:8; 2 Peter 1:7.
[225] See e.g., Leviticus 19:16-18; Deuteronomy 6:4-6; Matthew 7:12; Matthew 22:37-40; Romans 13:8-10; Galatians 5:14; Ephesians 4:32.
