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“Surely no one can stand in the way of their being baptized with water. They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have.”
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“As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit came on them as he had come on us at the beginning.
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Then I remembered what the Lord had said: ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’
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He was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith, and a great number of people were brought to the Lord.
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While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
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On Cyprus
The two of them, sent on their way by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia and sailed from there to Cyprus.
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Then Saul, who was also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked straight at Elymas and said,
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God raised him from the dead so that he will never be subject to decay. As God has said, “‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings promised to David.’
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So it is also stated elsewhere: “‘You will not let your holy one see decay.’
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And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.
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God, who knows the heart, showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as he did to us.
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It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements:
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Paul’s Vision of the Man of Macedonia
Paul and his companions traveled throughout the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been kept by the Holy Spirit from preaching the word in the province of Asia.
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and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” They answered, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”
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When Paul placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied.
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I only know that in every city the Holy Spirit warns me that prison and hardships are facing me.
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Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.
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Coming over to us, he took Paul’s belt, tied his own hands and feet with it and said, “The Holy Spirit says, ‘In this way the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem will bind the owner of this belt and will hand him over to the Gentiles.’”
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shouting, “Fellow Israelites, help us! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people and our law and this place. And besides, he has brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.”
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They disagreed among themselves and began to leave after Paul had made this final statement: “The Holy Spirit spoke the truth to your ancestors when he said through Isaiah the prophet:
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the gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures
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To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be his holy people: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
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And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
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So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.
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Paul’s Anguish Over Israel
I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying, my conscience confirms it through the Holy Spirit—
