THE HOLY SPIRIT in the New Testament - the Letters Part 1

1 CORINTHIANS

 

1 Corinthians 2:3-5 

I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God's power.

1 Corinthians 2:9-11  

However, as it is written:

    "What no eye has seen,

        what no ear has heard,

    and what no human mind has conceived"--  (Isaiah 64:4)

        the things God has prepared for those who love him--

these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.

    The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who knows a person's thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

1 Corinthians 2:14-16  

The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, for, 

    "Who has known the mind of the Lord

        so as to instruct him?"  (Isaiah 40:13)

But we have the mind of Christ.  (John 15:15)  

(see all 1 Corinthians 1-2) 

1 Corinthians 3:16-17  

    Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in your midst? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy that person; for God's temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.  (see all 1 Corinthians 3-5)

1 Corinthians 6:11  

And that is what some of you were, But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. 

1 Corinthians 6:19-20  

Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.  (see all 1 Corinthians 6-11) 

 

(parentheses are mine) 

 

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