Numbers 11:17
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17 I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the spirit that is on you and put it on them, and they shall bear the burden of the people along with you so that you will not bear it all by yourself.(A)
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1 Samuel 10:6
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6 Then the spirit of the Lord will possess you, and you will be in a prophetic frenzy along with them and be turned into a different person.(A)
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Numbers 11:25
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25 Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him and took some of the spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders, and when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. But they did not do so again.(A)
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1 Corinthians 12:4-11
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4 Now there are varieties of gifts but the same Spirit,(A) 5 and there are varieties of services but the same Lord,(B) 6 and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone. 7 To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.(C) 8 To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit,(D) 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,(E) 10 to another the working of powerful deeds, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.(F) 11 All these are activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to each one individually just as the Spirit chooses.(G)
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1 Corinthians 2:12
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12 Now we have received not the spirit of the world but the Spirit that is from God, so that we may understand the gifts bestowed on us by God.
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2 Kings 2:9
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9 When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me what I may do for you before I am taken from you.” Elisha said, “Please let me inherit a double share of your spirit.”
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Joel 2:28
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God’s Spirit Poured Out
28 [a]Then afterward
I will pour out my spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your old men shall dream dreams,
and your young men shall see visions.(A)
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- 2.28 3.1 in Heb
2 Kings 2:15
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15 When the company of prophets who were at Jericho saw him at a distance, they declared, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” They came to meet him and bowed to the ground before him.(A)
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Romans 8:9
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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)
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- 8.9 Or spirit
Isaiah 59:20-21
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20 And he will come to Zion as Redeemer,
to those in Jacob who turn from transgression, says the Lord.(A)
21 And as for me, this is my covenant with them, says the Lord: my spirit that is upon you and my words that I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth or out of the mouths of your children or out of the mouths of your children’s children, says the Lord, from now on and forever.(B)
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1 Thessalonians 4:8
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8 Therefore whoever rejects this rejects not human authority but God, who also gives his Holy Spirit to you.
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Nehemiah 9:20
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20 You gave your good spirit to instruct them and did not withhold your manna from their mouths and gave them water for their thirst.(A)
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Exodus 18:22
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22 Let them sit as judges for the people at all times; let them bring every important case to you but decide every minor case themselves. So it will be easier for you, and they will bear the burden with you.(A)
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