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Such confidence we have through Christ before God. Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God. He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant — not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives...

[God said,] "I'll give you [my people in Babylonian captivity] a new heart. I'll put a new Spirit in you. I'll cut out your stone heart and replace it with a red-blooded, firm-muscled heart. Then you'll obey my statutes and be careful to obey my commands. You'll be my people! I'll be your God!"...

[Jesus said,] "All that belongs to the Father is mine; this is why I said, 'The Spirit will tell you whatever he receives from me.'" —John 16:15 NLT Key Thought The source of our truth is God. His Spirit of truth will tell us everything he has received from the Son and make it clear to us...

[Jesus said,] "I still have many things to tell you, but you can't handle them now. But when the Friend comes, the Spirit of the Truth, he will take you by the hand and guide you into all the truth there is. He won't draw attention to himself, but will make sense out of what is about to happen...

[Jesus said,] "So let me say it again, this truth: It's better for you that I leave. If I don't leave, the Friend won't come. But if I go, I'll send him to you." —John 16:7 MESSAGE Key Thought Many of us have often longed to have been alive and seen Jesus as he ministered and taught while on...

[Jesus said,] "When the Friend I plan to send you from the Father comes — the Spirit of Truth issuing from the Father — he will confirm everything about me." —John 15:26 MESSAGE Key Thought I have always been amazed at how Jesus uses the last few hours of his life to prepare his followers for...

On the final and climactic day of the Feast, Jesus took his stand. He cried out, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Rivers of living water will brim and spill out of the depths of anyone who believes in me this way, just as the Scripture says." (He said this in regard to the...

[Jesus said,] "The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you — they are full of the Spirit and life." —John 6:63 NIV Key Thought The apostle Paul said essentially the same thing as in today's verse when he wrote, "I consider everything a loss because of...

[Jesus said,] "Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth." —John 4:23-24 NIV Key Thought...

[The Gentile Christians] were pleased to [send financial support to Jewish Christians], 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. —Romans 15:27 NIV Key Thought Through...

Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. —Colossians 3:16 NIV Key Thought Many translations use the term "spiritual songs" and so we...

For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, ... —Colossians 1:9 NIV Key Thought There are simply some things that no...

So, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you hear [God's] voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the wilderness ..." —Hebrews 3:7-8 NIV Key Thought God has spoken to the hearts of his children over the centuries inviting them back into...

The moment [Jesus] came out of the water, he saw the sky split open and God's Spirit, looking like a dove, come down on him. —Mark 1:10 MESSAGE Key Thought Winning the Super Bowl, winning the World Cup, winning Wimbledon, winning the British Open, winning the Daytona 500, and winning the...

"Where is the one who led [the Israelites] through the bottom of the sea? They were like fine stallions racing through the desert, never stumbling. As with cattle going down into a peaceful valley, the Spirit of the Lord gave them rest. You led your people, Lord, and gained a magnificent...

[After the return of the people of Judah from Babylon, this is what the LORD said about them,] "They made their hearts as hard as stone, so they could not hear the instructions or the messages that the LORD of Heaven's Armies had sent them by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. That is why...

But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things! —Galatians 5:22-23 NLT Key Thought We don't have the personal power to produce holiness through our...

So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. Then you won't be doing what your sinful nature craves. —Galatians 5:16 NLT Key Thought What has the most influence in my life? Who guides my steps? What determines the values by which I live? Whose voice and whose words are most important to...

So again I ask, does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you by the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard? —Galatians 3:5 NIV Key Thought God's Spirit is given to those who believe, and God's power is displayed in those who believe. We don't make the Spirit come to...

I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by observing the law, or by believing what you heard? —Galatians 3:2 NIV Key Thought Most of us love lists. We can check things off our lists and show we've completed our tasks. If we don't complete our list, we feel...