Bible verses about "mysticism" | Goodspeed

²⁰ When that day comes you will know that I am in union with my Father and you are with me and I am with you.

¹⁹ The things our physical nature does are clear enough—immorality, impurity, licentiousness, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, enmity, quarreling, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, party-spirit, ²¹ envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you as I did before that people who do such things will have no share in the Kingdom of God.

² I know of a man fourteen years ago—whether in the body or out of it, I do not know, God knows—being actually caught up to the third heaven. ³ And I know that this man—I do not know whether it was in the body or out of it, God knows— ⁴ was caught up into Paradise, and heard things that must not be told, which no human being can repeat.

²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me. The life I am now living in the body I am living by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.

³ For his divine power has given us every requisite for life and piety, through our coming to know him who through his glory and excellence called us to him. ⁴ Thus he has given us his precious and splendid promises so that through them you may escape the corrupting influences that exist in the world through passion, and come to share in the divine nature.

¹³ but when the Spirit of Truth comes, he will guide you into the full truth, for he will not speak for himself but will tell what he hears, and will announce to you the things that are to come.

¹⁴ And no wonder, for even Satan himself masquerades as a shining angel.

²¹ for no prophecy ever originated in the human will, but under the influence of the holy Spirit men spoke for God.

⁸ Jesus Christ is the same today that he was yesterday, and he will be so forever. ⁹ You must not be carried away with strange varieties of teaching. The true way to steadfastness of heart is through God's mercy, not through scruples about food, which have never done their adherents any good.

⁵ For there is but one God, and one intermediary between God and men—the man Christ Jesus,

⁸ Take care that nobody exploits you through the pretensions of philosophy, guided by human tradition, following material ways of looking at things, instead of following Christ.

¹ The Spirit distinctly says that in later times some will turn away from the faith, and devote their attention to deceitful spirits and the things that demons teach

¹ Dear friends, do not believe every inspired utterance, but test the utterances to see whether they come from God, for many false prophets have come out into the world.

¹² But the Spirit we have received is not that of the world, but the Spirit that comes from God, which we have to make us realize the blessings God has given us. ¹³ These disclosures we impart, not in the set phrases of human philosophy, but in words the Spirit teaches, giving spiritual truth a spiritual form. ¹⁴ A material man will not accept what the Spirit of God offers. It seems mere folly to him, and he cannot understand it, because it takes spiritual insight to see its true value. ¹⁵ But the spiritual man is alive to all true values, but his own true value no unspiritual man can see. ¹⁶ For who has ever known the Lord's thoughts, so that he can instruct him? But we share the thoughts of Christ.