While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who heard the message.

“No one can withhold the water for these people to be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we did, can he?”

Then as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as he did on us at the beginning.

When they came to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them to do this,

While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was greatly upset because he saw the city was full of idols.

and when Paul placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they began to speak in tongues and to prophesy.

But the evil spirit replied to them, “I know about Jesus and I am acquainted with Paul, but who are you?”

as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, to this very day.”

God has revealed these to us by the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

turn this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

But in my opinion, she will be happier if she remains as she is – and I think that I too have the Spirit of God!

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body. Whether Jews or Greeks or slaves or free, we were all made to drink of the one Spirit.

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living person”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

who made us adequate to be servants of a new covenant not based on the letter but on the Spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

But since we have the same spirit of faith as that shown in what has been written, “I believed; therefore I spoke,” we also believe, therefore we also speak.

Therefore we have been encouraged. And in addition to our own encouragement, we rejoiced even more at the joy of Titus, because all of you have refreshed his spirit.

And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, who calls “Abba! Father!”

I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you spiritual wisdom and revelation in your growing knowledge of him,

Consequently the one who rejects this is not rejecting human authority but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.

Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the later times some will desert the faith and occupy themselves with deceiving spirits and demonic teachings,