Bible-defined Spirit
Genesis 6:3 Then Jehovah said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he is mortal; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”
Genesis 7:22 All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.
Genesis 25:8,17 Abraham gave up his spirit, and died at a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people. ... 17 These are the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred thirty-seven years. He gave up his spirit and died, and was gathered to his people.
- Without spirit is to be without life. The spirit gives life.
Genesis 41:8 In the morning, his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt’s magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.
Exodus 35:21 They came, everyone whose heart stirred him up, and everyone whom his spirit made willing, and brought Jehovah’s offering for the work of the Tent of Meeting, and for all of its service, and for the holy garments.
Numbers 11:29 Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all Jehovah’s people were prophets, that Jehovah would put his Spirit on them!”
Numbers 24:4,16 he says, who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, and having his eyes open: ... 16 he says, who hears the words of God, knows the knowledge of the Most High, and who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, and having his eyes open:
Deuteronomy 2:30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him, for Jehovah your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as it is today.
Judges 15:19 But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived. Therefore its name was called En Hakkore, which is in Lehi, to this day.
1 Samuel 30:12 They gave him a piece of a cake of figs and two clusters of raisins. When he had eaten, his spirit came again to him; for he had eaten no bread, and drank no water for three days and three nights.
Job 6:4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
Job 7:11 “Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 10:12 You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit.
Job 17:1 “My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct and the grave is ready for me.
Job 26:13 By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.
Job 34:14 If he set his heart on himself, if he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,
Psalm 31:5 Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Jehovah, God of truth.
Psalm 77:3,6 I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah. ... 6 I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:
Psalm 106:33 because they were rebellious against his spirit, he spoke rashly with his lips.
Psalm 142:3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.
Psalm 143:4,7 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate. ... 7 Hurry to answer me, Jehovah. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.
Psalm 146:4 His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.
Proverbs 16:32 One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.
Isaiah 26:9 With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Isaiah 30:1 “Woe to the rebellious children”, says Jehovah, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin;
Isaiah 34:16 Search in the book of Jehovah, and read: not one of these will be missing. None will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.
Isaiah 38:16 Lord, men live by these things; and my spirit finds life in all of them. You restore me, and cause me to live.
Isaiah 42:1 “Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.
Isaiah 44:3 For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring;
Isaiah 48:16 “Come near to me and hear this: “From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it happened, I was there.” Now the Lord Jehovah has sent me with his Spirit.
Ezekiel 3:14 So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and Jehovah’s hand was strong on me.
Ezekiel 36:27 I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.
Ezekiel 37:14 I will put my Spirit in you, and you will live. Then I will place you in your own land; and you will know that I, Jehovah, have spoken it and performed it,” says Jehovah.’ ”
Ezekiel 39:29 I won’t hide my face from them any more, for I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Israel,’ says the Lord Jehovah.”
Daniel 2:1,3 In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep went from him. ... 3 The king said to them, “I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.”
Daniel 5:20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.
Daniel 7:15 “As for me, Daniel, my spirit was grieved within my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.
Joel 2:28-29 “It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions. 29 And also on the servants and on the handmaids in those days, I will pour out my Spirit.
Haggai 2:5 This is the word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, and my Spirit lived among you. ‘Don’t be afraid.’
Zechariah 4:6 Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, “This is Jehovah’s word to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says Jehovah of Hosts.
Zechariah 6:8 Then he called to me, and spoke to me, saying, “Behold, those who go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country.”
Matthew 12:18 “Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit on him. He will proclaim justice to the nations.
Matthew 27:50 Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up his spirit.
Mark 2:8 Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, “Why do you reason these things in your hearts?
Mark 8:12 He sighed deeply in his spirit and said, “Why does this generation seek a sign? Most certainly I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation.”
Luke 1:47 My spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior,
Luke 8:55 Her spirit returned, and she rose up immediately. He commanded that something be given to her to eat.
Luke 23:46 Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.
John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished!” Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
Acts 2:17-18 ‘It will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams. 18 Yes, and on my servants and on my handmaidens in those days, I will pour out my Spirit, and they will prophesy.
Acts 7:59 They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”
Acts 17:16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.
Romans 1:9 For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,
Romans 8:2,11 For the law of the Spirit of life in Messiah Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death. ... 11 But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Messiah Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his{Jesus' Father} Spirit who dwells in you.
- John 6:63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
- His Father raised Jesus from death according to several verses.
1 Corinthians 5:4 In the name of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, when you are gathered together with my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus the Messiah,
1 Corinthians 14:14 For if I pray in another language, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.
1 Corinthians 16:18 For they refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore acknowledge those who are like that.
2 Corinthians 2:13 I had no relief for my spirit, because I didn’t find Titus my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went out into Macedonia.
2 Corinthians 7:13 Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.
Ephesians 3:16 that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,
1 Peter 4:11 If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus the Messiah, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
1 John 4:13 By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
Relationship Between Spirit and Words
2 Samuel 23:2 "The Spirit of Jehovah spoke by me. His word was on my tongue.
Job 26:4 To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came forth from you?
Proverbs 1:23 Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.
Isaiah 59:21 “As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Jehovah. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Jehovah, “from now on and forever.”
John 3:34 For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.
John 6:63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are {eternal - vs54&68} life.
Zechariah 7:12 Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law and the words which Jehovah of Hosts had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Jehovah of Hosts.
Acts 4:31 When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.
Relationship Between Words and Mind
Acts 17:11 Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
Revelation 17:17 For God has put in their hearts to do what he has in mind, to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God should be accomplished.
Relationship Between Mind and Spirit
Romans 8:6 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;
Ephesians 4:21-24 if indeed you heard him and were taught in {Messiah}, even as truth is in Jesus: 22 that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit, 23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
2 Thessalonians 2:2 not to be quickly shaken in your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as from us, saying that the day of Christ had come.
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Desiring to live by every word that comes from the mouth of Jehovah ( Deut8:3; Matt4:4 )
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