Galatians 3:14
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14 in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the gentiles, so that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.(A)
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Galatians 3:28-29
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28 There is no longer Jew or Greek; there is no longer slave or free; there is no longer male and female, for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.(A) 29 And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s offspring,[a] heirs according to the promise.(B)
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- 3.29 Gk seed
Ephesians 2:18
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18 for through him both of us have access in one Spirit to the Father.(A)
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Galatians 3:2
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2 The only thing I want to learn from you is this: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law or by believing what you heard?(A)
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1 Corinthians 12:13
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13 For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.(A)
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Acts 2:33
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33 Being therefore exalted at[a] the right hand of God and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you see and hear.(A)
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Ezekiel 36:26-27
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26 A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you, and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.(A) 27 I will put my spirit within you and make you follow my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances.(B)
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Romans 4:3-17
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3 For what does the scripture say? “Abraham believed[a] God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.”(A) 4 Now to one who works, wages are not reckoned as a gift but as something due.(B) 5 But to one who does not work but trusts him who justifies the ungodly, such faith is reckoned as righteousness. 6 So also David pronounces a blessing on those to whom God reckons righteousness apart from works:
7 “Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven
and whose sins are covered;(C)
8 blessed is the one against whom the Lord will not reckon sin.”
9 Is this blessing, then, pronounced only on the circumcised or also on the uncircumcised? We say, “Faith was reckoned to Abraham as righteousness.” 10 How then was it reckoned to him? Was it before or after he had been circumcised? It was not after but before he was circumcised. 11 He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith[b] while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the ancestor of all who believe[c] without being circumcised and who thus have righteousness reckoned to them,(D) 12 and likewise the ancestor of the circumcised who are not only circumcised but follow the example of the faith that our ancestor Abraham had before he was circumcised.
God’s Promise Realized through Faith
13 For the promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law but through the righteousness of faith.(E) 14 For if it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. 15 For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.(F)
16 For this reason the promise depends on faith, in order that it may rest on grace, so that it may be guaranteed to all his descendants, not only to the adherents of the law but also to those who share the faith of Abraham (who is the father of all of us,(G) 17 as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”), in the presence of the God in whom he believed,[d] who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.(H)
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John 7:39
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39 Now he said this about the Spirit, which believers in him were to receive, for as yet there was no Spirit[a] because Jesus was not yet glorified.(A)
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- 7.39 Other ancient authorities read for as yet the Spirit (others, Holy Spirit) had not been given
Isaiah 32:15
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15 until a spirit from on high is poured out on us,
and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field,
and the fruitful field is deemed a forest.(A)
1 Peter 1:22
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22 Now that you have purified your souls[a] by your obedience to the truth[b] so that you have genuine mutual affection, love one another deeply from the heart.[c](A)
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1 Timothy 2:4-6
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4 who desires everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.(A) 5 For
there is one God;
there is also one mediator between God and humankind,
Christ Jesus, himself human,(B)
6 who gave himself a ransom for all
—this was attested at the right time.(C)
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Galatians 3:5-9
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5 Well then, does God[a] supply you with the Spirit and work miracles among you by your doing the works of the law or by your believing what you heard?
6 Just as Abraham “believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness,”(A) 7 so, you see, those who believe are the descendants of Abraham. 8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would reckon as righteous the gentiles by faith, declared the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “All the gentiles shall be blessed in you.”(B) 9 For this reason, those who believe are blessed with Abraham who believed.
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- 3.5 Gk he
Romans 8:26-27
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26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes[a] with groanings too deep for words.(A) 27 And God,[b] who searches hearts, knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit[c] intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.(B)
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Romans 8:9-16
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9 But you are not in the flesh; you are in the Spirit,[a] since the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.(A) 10 But if Christ is in you, then the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit[b] is life because of righteousness. 11 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus[c] from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through[d] his Spirit that dwells in you.(B)
12 So then, brothers and sisters, we are obligated, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh— 13 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.(C) 14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.(D) 15 For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received a spirit of adoption. When we cry, “Abba![e] Father!”(E) 16 it is that very Spirit bearing witness[f] with our spirit that we are children of God,(F)
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Acts 10:45-47
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45 The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the gentiles,(A) 46 for they heard them speaking in tongues and extolling God. Then Peter said, 47 “Can anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?”(B)
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Ezekiel 11:19
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19 I will give them one heart and put a new spirit within them;[a] I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,(A)
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- 11.19 Heb mss Gk Syr Vg: MT you
Genesis 12:2-3
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2 I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.(A) 3 I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”[a](B)
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- 12.3 Or by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves
Jude 19-20
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19 It is these worldly people, devoid of the Spirit, who are causing divisions. 20 But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit;(A)
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Ephesians 4:30
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30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption.(A)
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Ephesians 3:16
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16 I pray that, according to the riches of his glory, he may grant that you may be strengthened in your inner being with power through his Spirit(A)
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Ephesians 2:22
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22 in whom you also are built together spiritually[a] into a dwelling place for God.
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- 2.22 Gk in the Spirit
Ephesians 1:13-14
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13 In him you also, when you had heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and had believed in him, were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit;(A) 14 this[a] is the pledge of our inheritance toward redemption as God’s own people, to the praise of his glory.(B)
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- 1.14 Other ancient authorities read who
Galatians 4:6
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6 And because you are children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our[a] hearts, crying, “Abba![b] Father!”(A)
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Galatians 3:16
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16 Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring;[a] it does not say, “And to offsprings,”[b] as of many, but it says, “And to your offspring,”[c] that is, to one person, who is Christ.(A)
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