Spirit God
• In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless wasteland, and darkness covered the abyss, while a mighty wind [Spirit] swept over the waters. (Genesis 1 :1)
• … the LORD God formed man out of the clay of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and so man became a living being. (Genesis 2 :7)
• [Angel said:] “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary your wife into your home. For it is through the holy Spirit that this child has been conceived in her.” (Matthew 1 :20)
• After Jesus was baptized, he came up from the water and behold, the heavens were opened [for him] , and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove [and] coming upon him. (Matthew 3 :16)
• And the angel said to her [Mary] in reply, “The holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God.” (Luke 1 :35)
• Jesus answered [Nicodemus], “Amen, amen I say to you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit …. Do not be amazed that I told you, ‘You must be born from above.’ The wind blows where it wills, and you can hear the sound it makes, but you do no know where it comes from or where it goes; so it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.” (John 3 :5-8)
• [Jesus said to the Samaritan woman:] “God is Spirit, and those who worship him must worship in Spirit and truth.” (John 4 :24)
• [Jesus told his disciples:] “I have told you this while I am with you. The Advocate, the holy Spirit that the Father will send in my name --- he will teach you everything and remind you of all that I told you.” (John 14 :25-26)
• For those who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received a spirit of adoption, through which we cry, Abba, “Father!” The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, .… (Romans 8 :14-17)
• … the Spirit too comes to the aid of our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit itself intercedes with inexpressible groanings. (Romans 8 : 26)
• [Paul] We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit that is from God, so that we may understand the things freely given us by God. And we speak about them not with words taught by human wisdom, but with words taught by the Spirit .… (1 Corinthians 2 :12-13)
• [Paul] That is what some of you used to be [all kinds of sinners]; but now you have had yourselves washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God. (1 Corinthians 6 :11)
• [Paul] Do you not know that your body is a temple of the holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? (1 Corinthians 6 :19 )
• … no one can say, “Jesus is lord” except by the holy Spirit.
To one is given through the Spirit the expression of wisdom; to another the expression of knowledge … to another faith … to another gifts of the healing … to another mighty deeds … to another prophecy, to another discernment of spirits; to another varieties of tongues; to another interpretation of tongues. But one and the same Spirit produces all of these distributing them individually to each person as he wishes. (1 Corinthians 12 :3, 8-11)
• [ A contrast is being made between the Old Covenant and the New Covenant] To this day, in fact whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their hearts, but whenever a person turns to the Lord the veil is removed. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. All of us, gazing with unveiled face on the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as from the Lord who is the Spirit. (2 Corinthians 3 :15-18)
• … the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. If we live in the Spirit, let us also follow the Spirit. (Galatians 55 :22-23,25)
• [John said:] This is how you can know the Spirit of God: every spirit that acknowledges Jesus Christ comes in the flesh belongs to God, and every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus does not belong to God. This is the spirit of the antichrist that as you heard, is to come, but in fact is already in the world. You have belonged to God, children, and you have conquered them, for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. (1 John 4 :2-4)
• [John] We belong to God, and anyone who knows God listens to us, while anyone who does not belong to God refuses to hear us. This is how we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit. (1 John 4:6)