Bible Verses About the Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit is not a force or a feeling — Scripture presents him as a person: one who teaches, comforts, intercedes, convicts, and guides. Jesus described his coming as an advantage over his own physical presence. These verses show what the Bible actually says about who he is and what he does.
"I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,—"
Another advocate — the word Jesus uses, and what it implies about the Spirit's role.
Read full explanation →"However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming."
He will guide you into all truth — the Spirit as teacher.
Read full explanation →"In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered."
The Spirit intercedes for us — even when we don't know what to pray.
Read full explanation →"But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”"
You will receive power when the Spirit comes on you — the promise before Pentecost.
Read full explanation →"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,"
The fruit of the Spirit — what his presence produces over time.
Read full explanation →"But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you."
He will teach you all things and remind you of everything I have said.
Read full explanation →"Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?"
You are God's temple and his Spirit dwells in you — the location of his presence.
Read full explanation →"For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God."
Those led by the Spirit of God are children of God — the relationship.
Read full explanation →"Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption."
Do not grieve the Holy Spirit — he can be grieved, which tells us something.
Read full explanation →"When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment;"
He will convict the world of sin and righteousness and judgment.
Read full explanation →"They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak."
All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit — the event at Pentecost.
Read full explanation →"But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you."
The Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you — the same power.
Read full explanation →"The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don’t know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”"
The wind blows where it will — the Spirit compared to something you can't control.
Read full explanation →"But the one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires."
He distributes gifts as he determines — intentional, not random.
Read full explanation →"I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them."
I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees — the old promise.
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