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Spiritual Blindness
Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when he found him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”
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I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong—
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We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
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Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.
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They were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in the Jews’ spiritual blessings, they owe it to the Jews to share with them their material blessings.
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Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed.
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This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.
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If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap a material harvest from you?
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They all ate the same spiritual food
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and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.
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Concerning Spiritual Gifts
Now about the gifts of the Spirit, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed.
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it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
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The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual.
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So also, when we were underage, we were in slavery under the elemental spiritual forces of the world.
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Praise for Spiritual Blessings in Christ
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.
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For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
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Spiritual Fullness in Christ
So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him,
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See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.
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Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules:
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Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
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you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
