Bible verses about "spirituality" | Twentieth_Century

²⁴ God is Spirit; and those who worship him must worship spiritually and truly."

²⁷ Work, not for the food that perishes, but for the food that lasts for Immortal Life, which the Son of Man will give you; for upon him the Father--God himself--has set the seal of his approval."

¹ Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. ² In my Father's Home there are many dwellings. If it had not been so, I should have told you, for I am going to prepare a place for you. ³ And, since I go and prepare a place for you, I shall return and take you to be with me, so that you may be where I am; ⁴ And you know the way to the place where I am going." ⁵ "We do not know where you are going, Master," said Thomas; "so how can we know the way?" ⁶ Jesus answered: "I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life; no one ever comes to the Father except through me. ⁷ If you had recognized me, you would have known my Father also; for the future you will recognize him, indeed you have already seen him." ⁸ "Master, show us the Father," said Philip, "and we shall be satisfied." ⁹ "Have I been all this time among you," said Jesus, "and yet you, Philip, have not recognized me? He who has seen me has seen the Father, how can you say, then, 'Show us the Father'? ¹⁰ Do not you believe that I am in union with the Father, and the Father with me? In giving you my teaching I am not speaking on my own authority; but the Father himself, always in union with me, does his own work. ¹¹ Believe me," he said to them all, "when I say that I am in union with the Father and the Father with me, or else believe me on account of the work itself. ¹² In truth I tell you, he who believes in me will himself do the work that I am doing; and he will do greater work still, because I am going to the Father. ¹³ Whatever you ask, in my Name, I will do, that the Father may be honored in the Son. ¹⁴ If you ask anything, in my Name, I will do it. ¹⁵ If you love me, you will lay my commands to heart, ¹⁶ And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you always--the Spirit of Truth. ¹⁷ The world cannot receive this Spirit, because it does not see him or recognize him, but you recognize him, because he is always with you, and is within you. ¹⁸ I will not leave you bereaved; I will come to you. ¹⁹ In a little while the world will see me no more, but you will still see me; because I am living, you will be living also. ²⁰ At that time you will recognize that I am in union with the Father, and you with me, and I with you. ²¹ It is he who has my commands and lays them to heart that loves me; and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him." ²² "What has happened, Master," said Judas (not Judas Iscariot), "that you are going to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?" ²³ "Whoever loves me," Jesus answered, " will lay my Message to heart; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him. ²⁴ He who does not love me will not lay my Message to heart; and the Message to which you are listening is not my own, but that of the Father who sent me. ²⁵ I have told you all this while still with you, ²⁶ But the Helper--the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my Name--he will teach you all things, and will recall to your minds all that I have said to you. ²⁷ Peace be with you! My own peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, or dismayed. ²⁸ You heard me say that I was going away and would return to you. Had you loved me, you would have been glad that I was going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I. ²⁹ And this I have told you now before it happens, that, when it does happen, you may still believe in me. ³⁰ I shall not talk with you much more, for the Spirit that is ruling the world is coming. He has nothing in common with me; ³¹ But he is coming that the world may see that I love the Father, and that I do as the Father commanded me. Come, let us be going.

¹⁷ For the Kingdom of God does not consist of eating and drinking, but of righteousness and peace and gladness through the presence of the Holy Spirit.

¹ Since, therefore, you were raised to Life with the Christ, seek for the things that are above; for it is there that the Christ is 'seated at the right hand of God.' ² Fix your thoughts upon the things that are above, not upon those that are on earth. ³ For you died, and your Life now lies hidden, with the Christ, in God.

²⁰ I am standing at the door and knocking! If any one hears my voice and opens the door, I will go in, and will feast with him, and he shall feast with me.

⁶ Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

¹ I am the True Vine, and my Father is the Vine-grower. ² Any unfruitful branch in me he takes away, and he cleanses every fruitful branch, that it may bear more fruit. ³ You are already clean because of the Message that I have given you. ⁴ Remain united to me, and I will remain united to you. As a branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains united to the vine; no more can you, unless you remain united to me. ⁵ I am the Vine, you are the branches. He that remains united to me, while I remain united to him--he bears fruit plentifully; for you can do nothing apart from me. ⁶ If any one does not remain united to me, he is thrown away, as a branch would be, and withers up. Such branches are collected and thrown into the fire, and are burnt. ⁷ If you remain united to me, and my teaching remains in your hearts, ask whatever you wish, and it shall be yours. ⁸ It is by your bearing fruit plentifully, and so showing yourselves my disciples, that my Father is honored. ⁹ As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; remain in my love. ¹⁰ If you lay my commands to heart, you will remain in my love; just as I have laid the Father's commands to heart and remain in his love. ¹¹ I have told you all this so that my own joy may be yours, and that your joy may be complete. ¹² This is my command--Love one another, as I have loved you. ¹³ No one can give greater proof of love than by laying down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ And you are my friends, if you do what I command you. ¹⁵ I no longer call you 'servants,' because a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have given you the name of 'friends,' because I made known to you everything that I learned from my Father. ¹⁶ It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you, and I appointed you to go and bear fruit--fruit that should remain, so that the Father might grant you whatever you ask in my Name. ¹⁷ I am giving you these commands that you may love one another.

¹¹ So let it be with you-regard yourselves as dead to sin, but as living for God, through union with Christ Jesus.

¹⁷ The world cannot receive this Spirit, because it does not see him or recognize him, but you recognize him, because he is always with you, and is within you.

⁴ So that the requirements of the Law might be satisfied in us who live now in obedience, not to our earthly nature, but to the Spirit.

⁶ To be earthly-minded means Death, to be spiritually minded means Life and Peace;

²² But the fruit produced by the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindliness, generosity, trustfulness, gentleness, self-control.