the Personality of Holy Spirit
31 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
23 sections
- He Appoints and Commissions Ministers
- He Can be Grieved
- He Can be Resisted
- He Can be Tempted
- He Can be Vexed
- He Comforts
- He Creates and Gives Life
- He Directs Ministers where not to Preach
- He Directs Ministers where to Preach
- He Dwells with Saints
- He Glorifies Christ
- He Guides
- He Has a Power of his Own
- He Helps Our Infirmities
- He Instructs Ministers What to Preach
- He Reproves
- He Sanctifies
- He Searches all Things
- He Spoke In, and By, the Prophets
- He Strives with Sinners
- He Teaches
- He Testifies of Christ
- He Works According to his own Will
He Appoints and Commissions Ministers
- Isaiah 48:16 Come near to Me and listen to this: From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time it happened, I was there.” And now the Lord GOD has sent me, accompanied by His Spirit.
- Acts 13:2 While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
- Acts 20:28 Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.
He Can be Grieved
- Ephesians 4:30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
He Can be Resisted
- Acts 7:51 You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
He Can be Tempted
- Acts 5:9 “How could you agree to test the Spirit of the Lord?” Peter replied. “Look, the feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out also.”
He Can be Vexed
- Isaiah 63:10 But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.
He Comforts
- Acts 9:31 Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria experienced a time of peace. It grew in strength and numbers, living in the fear of the Lord and the encouragement of the Holy Spirit.
He Creates and Gives Life
- Job 33:4 The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
He Directs Ministers where not to Preach
- Acts 16:6–7 After the Holy Spirit had prevented them from speaking the word in the province of Asia, they traveled through the region of Phrygia and Galatia. …
He Directs Ministers where to Preach
- Acts 8:29 The Spirit said to Philip, “Go over to that chariot and stay by it.”
- Acts 10:19–20 As Peter continued to reflect on the vision, the Spirit said to him, “Behold, three men are looking for you. …
He Dwells with Saints
- John 14:17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you.
He Glorifies Christ
- John 16:14 He will glorify Me by taking from what is Mine and disclosing it to you.
He Guides
- John 16:13 However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.
He Has a Power of his Own
- Romans 15:13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
He Helps Our Infirmities
- Romans 8:26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how we ought to pray, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans too deep for words.
He Instructs Ministers What to Preach
- 1 Corinthians 2:13 And this is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.
He Reproves
- John 16:8 And when He comes, He will convict the world in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment:
He Sanctifies
- Romans 15:16 to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
- 1 Corinthians 6:11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
He Searches all Things
- Romans 11:33–34 O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways! …
- 1 Corinthians 2:10–11 But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. …
He Spoke In, and By, the Prophets
- Acts 1:16 “Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled that the Holy Spirit foretold through the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide for those who arrested Jesus.
- 1 Peter 1:11–12 trying to determine the time and setting to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow. …
- 2 Peter 1:21 For no such prophecy was ever brought forth by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
He Strives with Sinners
- Genesis 6:3 So the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.”
He Teaches
- John 14:26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have told you.
- 1 Corinthians 12:3 Therefore I inform you that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.
He Testifies of Christ
- John 15:26 When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father — the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father — He will testify about Me.
He Works According to his own Will
- 1 Corinthians 12:11 All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, who apportions them to each one as He determines.
Related topics
The Holy SpiritHoly Spiritthe Comforter, Holy SpiritTitles and Names of the Holy SpiritThe Inspiration of the Holy Spirit
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.