Bible verses about "spirituality" | Williams

²⁴ God is a spiritual Being, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and reality."

²⁷ Stop toiling for the food that perishes, but toil for the food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, for God the Father has given Him authority to do so."

¹ "Stop letting your hearts be troubled; keep on believing in God, and also in me. ² In my Father's house there are many dwelling places; if there were not, I would have told you, for I am going away to make ready a place for you. ³ And if I go and make it ready for you, I will come back and take you to be face to face with me, so that you may always be right where I am. ⁴ And you know the way to the place where I am going." ⁵ Thomas said to Him, "Lord, we do not know where you are going, and so how can we know the way?" ⁶ Jesus answered him, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me. ⁷ If you knew me, you would know my Father too. From now on you do know Him and you have seen Him." ⁸ Philip said to Him, "Lord, let us see the Father, and that will satisfy us." ⁹ Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you disciples so long, and yet you, Philip, have not recognized me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Let us see the Father'? ¹⁰ Do you not believe that I am in union with the Father and that the Father is in union with me? I am not saying these things on my own authority, but the Father who always remains in union with me is doing these things Himself. ¹¹ You must believe me, that I am in union with the Father and that the Father is in union with me, or else you must do so because of the very things that I am doing. ¹² I most solemnly say to you, whoever perseveres in believing in me can himself do the things that I am doing; yes, he can do even greater things than I am doing, because I am going to the Father. ¹³ And anything you ask for as bearers of my name I will do for you, so that the Father may be glorified through the Son. ¹⁴ Yes, I repeat it, anything you ask for as bearers of my name I will do it for you. ¹⁵ "If you really love me, you will keep my commands. ¹⁶ And I will ask I will ask the Father and He will give you another Helper, to remain with you to the end of the age; ¹⁷ even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see Him or recognize Him, because He is going to remain with you, and will be within you. ¹⁸ I will not leave you helpless orphans. I am coming back to you. ¹⁹ In just a little while the world will not see me any more, but you will be seeing me. Because I am to live on, you too will live on. ²⁰ At that time you will know that I am in union with my Father and you are in union with me and I am in union with you. ²¹ Whoever continues to hold and keep my commands is the one who really loves me, and whoever really loves me will be loved by my Father; yes, I will love him myself and will make myself real to him." ²² Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said to Him, "Why is it, Lord, that you are going to make yourself real to us and not to the world?" ²³ Jesus answered him, "If anyone really loves me, he will observe my teaching, and my Father will love him, and both of us will come in face-to-face fellowship with him; yes, we will make our special dwelling place with him. ²⁴ Whoever does not really love me does not observe my teaching; and yet the teaching which you are listening to is not mine but comes from the Father who has sent me. ²⁵ "I have told you this while I am still staying with you. ²⁶ But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send to represent me, will teach you everything Himself, and cause you to remember everything that I have told you. ²⁷ I now leave you the blessing of peace, I give you the blessing of my own peace. I myself do not give it in the way the world gives it. Stop letting your hearts be troubled or timid. ²⁸ You have heard me say that I am going away and coming back to you; if you really loved me, you would rejoice over my telling you that I am going to the Father, because my Father is greater than I. ²⁹ And now I have told you this before it takes place, that when it does take place you may believe in me. ³⁰ "I shall not talk much more with you, for the evil ruler of this world is coming and he has nothing in common with me, ³¹ but he is coming that the world may know that I love the Father and am doing what the Father has ordered me to do. Get up and let us go away."

¹⁷ For the kingdom of God does not consist in what we eat and drink, but in doing right, in peace and joy through the Holy Spirit;

¹ So if you have been raised to life in fellowship with Christ, keep on seeking the things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. ² Practice occupying your minds with the things above, not with the things on earth; ³ for you have died, and your life is now hidden in God through your fellowship with Christ.

²⁰ I am now standing at the door and knocking. If anyone listens to my voice and opens the door, I will be his guest and feast with him, and he with me.

⁶ "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for being and doing right, for they will be completely satisfied.

¹ "I am the real vine, and my Father is the cultivator. ² He cuts away any branch on me that stops bearing fruit, and He repeatedly prunes every branch that continues to bear fruit, to make it bear more. ³ You are already pruned because of the teaching that I have given you. ⁴ You must remain in union with me and I will remain in union with you. Just as no branch by itself can bear fruit unless it remains united to the vine, so you cannot unless you remain in union with me. ⁵ I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in union with me and I in union with him will bear abundant fruit, because you cannot do anything cut off from union with me. ⁶ If anyone does not remain in union with me, he is thrown away as a mere branch and is dried up; then it is picked up and thrown into the fire and burned up. ⁷ If you remain in union with me and my words remain in you, you may ask whatever you please and you shall have it. ⁸ By your continuously bearing abundant fruit and in this way proving yourselves to be real disciples of mine, my Father is glorified. ⁹ I have loved you just as the Father has loved me. You must remain in my love. ¹⁰ If you continue to keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain in His love. ¹¹ "I have told you these things, that the joy which I have had may remain in you and that your joy may be complete. ¹² This is my command to you, to keep on loving one another as I have loved you. ¹³ No one can show greater love than this, the giving of his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends, if you keep on doing what I command you to do. ¹⁵ I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not know what his master is doing; I now call you friends, because I have told you everything that I have learned from my Father. ¹⁶ You have not chosen me; I have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit, that your fruit may remain too, so that the Father may grant you, as bearers of my name, whatever you ask Him for. ¹⁷ "What I command you to do is, to keep on loving one another.

¹¹ So you too must consider yourselves as having ended your relation to sin but living in unbroken relation to God.

¹⁷ even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see Him or recognize Him, because He is going to remain with you, and will be within you.

⁴ so that the requirement of the law might be fully met in us who do not live by the standard set by our lower nature, but by the standard set by the Spirit.

⁶ For to be thinking the things suggested by the lower nature means death, but to be thinking the things suggested by the Spirit means life and peace.

²² But the product of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,