67 Bible Verses about Spirituality

The unspiritual man rejects the teachings of God's Spirit; for him it is folly. He cannot understand it, for it is spiritually discerned,

For we know that the Law is spiritual; but as for me, I am a creature of flesh, bought and sold under the dominion of sin.

"I tell you solemnly," Jesus answered, "that unless a man is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. What is born of the flesh is flesh; and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not at my telling you, 'You must all be born again from above.'read more.
The wind blows where it wills, and you hear its voice, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with every one who has been born of the Spirit."

But if the Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from dead is dwelling in you, He who raised up Jesus from the dead is dwelling in you, He who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also make your dying bodily self live by his indwelling Spirit in your lives.

He saved us, not because of any deeds that we had done in righteousness, But because of his own pity for us. He saved us by that washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whose great mercy we have been born anew into a living hope, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead;

now without faith it is impossible to please him; for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he ever rewards those who are seeking.

"I tell you solemnly," said Jesus, "that unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you have no life in you. "He who feeds upon my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. "For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.read more.
"He who feeds upon my flesh abides in me and I in him. "Just as the living Father has sent me, and I live by the Father, so also that man who feeds on me shall live by me. "This is the bread which came down from heaven; not such as your fathers ate and died, for he who feeds upon this bread shall live forever."

"Let not your hearts be troubled. You trust in God, trust in me also.

but these have been written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

"Believe on the Lord Jesus," they answered, "and you will be saved, you and all your household."

Confess with your mouth "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God actually raised him from the dead, and you will be saved. For with the heart man believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

I long to know him in the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, by sharing the likeness of his death; if by any means I might attain to the resurrection from the dead! I do not say that I have already won, or am already perfect, but I am passing on to lay hold on the prize for which also Christ has laid hold of me.read more.
Brothers, I do not regard myself to have yet laid hold of it; but this one thing I do, forgetting what is behind me, but straining every nerve toward that which lies ahead, I am ever pressing on toward the goal, for the prize of God's heavenward call in Christ Jesus.

For they who live after the flesh, give their attention to the things of the flesh; But they who live after the spirit, give their attention to spiritual things. To be earthly minded means death; To be spiritually minded means life and peace. For to be earthly minded is enmity against God; For such a mind is not subject to the Law of God, Nor can it be;read more.
And they who are earthly minded cannot please God. But you are not earthly, but spiritual, if indeed the Spirit of God is really dwelling in you. If any one does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

Therefore, brothers, we are debtors??ut not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh; for if you go on living according to the flesh, you are on the road to die; but if by the Spirit you keep putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

This is my meaning. Let your steps be guided by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desire of the flesh is against that of the Spirit, and the desire of the Spirit is against that of the flesh, for they two are antagonistic, so that you may not do those things that you wish.

Do not be drunk with wine, in which is riotous living, but drink deep in the Spirit,

And we all, with unveiled faces, reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are ourselves continually being transformed into the same likeness, from glory to glory, as by the Lord, the Spirit.

For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, so that he might be the eldest of a great brotherhood;

We are God's children now, beloved; what we shall be has never yet been made manifest. But we know that when he is manifested we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is. And every one who is holding this hope in him is purifying himself, even as he is pure.

For only those are sons of God who are led by God's Spirit. For you have not received a spirit of slavery in order that you should once more be afraid; but you have received a spirit of adoption, in which we cry out, "My Father, my dear Father!" For his Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit, that we are children of God;

And because you are sons, God sent forth the spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, "Dear, dear Father!"

But the harvest-fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity, gentleness, and self-control; against such there is no law.

"No, every good tree bears good fruit, but a worthless tree bears bad fruit.

"I am the Vine you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him, bears abundant fruit; because apart from me you can do nothing. "If any one does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers. Such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire and burned. "If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatever your will is, and it shall be yours.read more.
"By this is my Father glorified, by your bearing abundant fruit, and so being my disciples.

For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

For you were once darkness, but are now in the Lord. Lead the life of children of light, for the fruit of the light consists in every kind of goodness and uprightness and truth.

Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God; and every one that loves us a child of God.

I give you a new commandment, Love one another! By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another."

Though I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have no love, I am become a clanging brass, or a clashing cymbal. Though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I sell all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it avails me nothing.read more.
Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love makes no parade, is not puffed up,

Therefore, as God's chosen people, consecrated and beloved, clothe yourselves with tenderness of heart, kindness, humility, gentleness, good temper;

As for me, brothers, I could not talk to you as spiritual men, but as to creatures of flesh, mere babes in Christ. I fed you milk, not meat; for you were unable to bear it. You are not able even now, for you are still unspiritual. While there is among you jealousy and strife, are you not still unspiritual, and behaving like worldlings?

Brothers, do not become children in understanding; be babes in malice, but in understanding become mature men.

For every one who feeds on milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness. He is still an infant. But solid food is for adults, that is, for those who by constant practise have their faculties trained to discriminate between good and evil.

Even if any one should be overtaken in a fault, brothers, you that are spiritual ought, in a gentle spirit, to restore such a one, each one of you looking to himself, lest you too be tempted.

Welcome a man of weak faith, but not for the purpose of deciding doubtful points. One man has faith to eat anything; but he whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. He who eats meat must not despise the man who abstains; and let not the man who abstains judge him who eats; for God has received him.

But see to it lest this right of yours become a stumbling-block to the weak. For if any one should see you, the possessor of "knowledge," reclining at table in an idol's temple, would not his conscience, if he were weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols? So he is lost, this weak man, lost by your "knowledge." this brother for whom Christ died.read more.
In so sinning against your brothers, and in ever and again wounding their weak consciences, you are sinning against Christ. Therefore, if what I eat makes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, lest I make my brother to stumble.

Nay, as it is written. Eye has not seen, Nor ear heard, Neither have entered into man's heart The things which God has prepared For those who love him. Yet God has unveiled them to us by his Spirit. For the Spirit fathoms everything, even the abysmal depths of God. For what man knows the depths of man except the man's own inner Spirit? Even so, also, the Spirit of God knows the deeps profound of God.read more.
But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which comes forth from God, that we may realize the blessings freely given us by God. Of these high themes we speak in words not taught by human philosophy, but by the Spirit; interpreting spiritual things to spiritual men.

"The world cannot receive him because it does not see him nor know him, but you know him, for he is ever with you and within you.

But when he is come, that Spirit of Truth, he will guide you into the whole truth. For he will not speak on his own authority, but all that he hears he will speak, and will make known to you that which is to come. He will glorify me; for he will take of what is mine and will make known to you. Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said that he will take of what is mine and make it known to you.

But the spiritual man discerns everything, yet is himself discerned by no one. For what man understands the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct Him?

And schooling us to renounce impiety and evil passions, And to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;

I entreat you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies to Him as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. This is your reasonable service of worship. And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you, the Spirit whom you have from God? You are not your own; for you have been bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your bodies.

And those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and appetites.

If you then are risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ abides, seated on the right hand of God. Set your heart on things above, not on earthly things;

"If you obey my commands you will abide in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and abide in his love.

And he is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world. This is how we may know that we have come to know Him, by always keeping his commandments. He who says, "I know Him," but does no continue obeying his commandments, is a liar,read more.
and the truth is not in him; bit if any man obey his word, in him truly is the love of God made perfect. By this we come to know that we are in him. By who says he "remains in him" ought to spend his life as he spent his.

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. For love to God means obeying his commandments; and his commandments are not irksome.

If we are living by the Spirit, let us also keep step in the Spirit.

"Stiff-necked, uncircumcised in heart and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Ghost! As your fathers did, so do you.

And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you have been sealed for the day of redemption.

Quench not the Spirit.

They know now that whatever thou hast given me was from thee;

and how from a child you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. Every Scripture, seeing that it is God-breathed, is also profitable for teaching, for refutation, for correction, and for training in righteousness, so that the man of God may himself be complete, and completely equipped for every good work.

It happened about that time that he went out into the mountain to pray. He continued all night in prayer to God.

In the morning he rose a great while before day and went out to a desert place, and there prayed.

Now when they beheld the glad fearlessness of Peter and John and had perceived that they were amazed; and they began to recognize them, that they were companions of Jesus.

and let us consider one another, to provoke unto love and good works;

Let the word of Christ have its home in you richly, in all wisdom. Teach and admonish one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, ever singing with grace in your hearts unto God.

You know how I was wont to treat each of you as a father treats his children, exhorting and imploring and adjuring each one among you to lead a life worthy of the God who called you into his own kingdom and glory.

My brothers, when you are beset by various temptations, count it all joy, because you know that the testing of your faith is working out endurance. But let endurance have its perfect work, so that you may be perfect and entire, not lacking in anything.

And not only so, but we are actually exulting also even in our troubles; for we know that trouble works fortitude, and fortitude character, and character, hope??5 a hope which never disappoints us. For through the Holy Spirit who has given to us, the "brimming river of the love of God" has overflowed in our hearts.

Exult in this, though now for a brief moment, if need be, you have suffered many hardships. These are in order that the test of your faith, more precious than gold that is perishable and yet is tested by fire, may redound to praise and glory and honor, at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

After deposing him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also bore witness, when he said, "I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after my own heart, and who will obey all my will.

This plan commended itself to the whole body, and they selected Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas, a proselyte of Antioch.