Bible verses about "spirit" | Goodspeed

¹⁶ So I never lose heart. Though my outer nature is wasting away, my inner is being renewed every day. ¹⁷ For this slight, momentary trouble is piling up for me an eternal blessedness beyond all comparison, ¹⁸ because I keep my eyes not on what is seen but what is unseen. For what is seen is transitory, but what is unseen is eternal.

²² My inner nature agrees with the divine law,

¹² For the message of God is a living and active force, sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing through soul and spirit, and joints and marrow, and keen in judging the thoughts and purposes of the mind.

⁶³ The Spirit is what gives life; flesh is of no use at all. The things that I have said to you are spirit and they are life.

¹⁵ I do not understand what I am doing, for I do not do what I want to do; I do things that I hate. ¹⁶ But if I do what I do not want to do, I acknowledge that the Law is right. ¹⁷ In reality, it is not I that do these things; it is sin, which has possession of me. ¹⁸ For I know that nothing good resides in me, that is, in my physical self; I can will, but I cannot do what is right. ¹⁹ I do not do the good things that I want to do; I do the wrong things that I do not want to do. ²⁰ But if I do the things that I do not want to do, it is not I that am acting, it is sin, which has possession of me. ²¹ I find the law to be that I who want to do right am dogged by what is wrong. ²² My inner nature agrees with the divine law, ²³ but all through my body I see another principle in conflict with the law of my reason, which makes me a prisoner to that law of sin that runs through my body. ²⁴ What a wretched man I am! Who can save me from this doomed body?

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.

¹³ This is the way we know that we keep in union with him and he does with us—because he has given us some of his Spirit.

¹⁶ I mean this: Live by the Spirit, and then you will not indulge your physical cravings.

²⁴ God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship him in spirit and in sincerity."

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.