Since my return from Haiti, I have been thinking about the role of Holy Spirit in the Bible. The following is all the verses of which I can remember where the Holy Spirit behaves like a person.
- Dwells or abides in us individually: John 14:17; Romans 8:9, 11;
- Decides: 1 Cor. 12:11;
- Searches for truth: 1 Cor. 2:10;
- Guides us: John 16:13-14;
- Leads us: Romans 8:14;
- Bears witness: John 15:27; Romans 8:16; 1 John 5:6b
- Helps us in our weakness: Romans 8:26;
- Intercedes for us in our prayers: Romans 8:26, 27;
- Knows and comprehends: 1 Cor. 2:11;
- Teaches us: John 14:26;
- Glorifies Christ: John 16:13;
- Hears: John 16:13;
- Speaks: 2 Samuel 23:2; John 16:13; Acts 21:11; 1 Tim. 4:1; Heb. 3:7, Rev. 2:7, 14:13;
- Can be grieved: Ephesians 4:10;
- Can be lied to: Acts 5:3
2 Samuel 23:2
“The Spirit of the LORD speaks by me;
his word is on my tongue.
John 14:17
even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
John 14:26
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
John 15:26-27
“But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me. And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.
John 16:13-14
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.
Acts 5:3
But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land?
Acts 21:11
And coming to us, he took Paul's belt and bound his own feet and hands and said, “Thus says the Holy Spirit, ‘This is how the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’”
Romans 8:9
You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
Romans 8:11
If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
Romans 8:14
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
Romans 8:16
The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
Romans 8:26
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
Romans 8:27
And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
1 Corinthians 2:10
these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
1 Corinthians 2:11
For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
1 Corinthians 12:11
All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.
Ephesians 4:30
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
1 Timothy 4:1
Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,
Hebrews 3:7
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice,
1 John 5:6
This is he who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
Revelation 2:7
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.’
Revelation 14:13The following is a salutation of Paul's 2nd Letter to the Corinthians. It refers to all three persons of the triune Godhead and I thought it is an appropriate ending to this post.
And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Blessed indeed,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!”
2 Corinthians 13:14
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
