Galatians 3:14

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Might

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Bible References

Might

I want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law, or by having faith in what you heard?

Because you are sons, God sent the spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

The Spirit will be poured out upon us from on high. Then the wilderness will be turned into a fertile field, and the fertile field will be considered a forest.

I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring. I will give blessing to your descendants.

The people from the sunset (the west) will respect the name of Jehovah. Those from the rising of the sun (the east) will reverence his glory. He will come like a rushing stream that the Spirit (wind) (breath) of Jehovah drives.

This is the covenant (agreement) that I will make with Israel after those days, declares Jehovah. I will put my teachings (Law) inside them. I will write those teachings (Law) on their hearts (inner man) (mind) (will) (conscience) (understanding). I will be their God, and they will be my people.

I will make an eternal promise to them that I will never stop blessing them. I will make them respect me so that they will never turn away from me.

I will give them one (united) heart, and put a new spirit within them. I will take the heart of stone (unkind attitude) out of them and give them a heart of flesh (loving disposition).

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you. I will remove your stubborn hearts and give you obedient hearts.

I will no longer hide my face (withdraw my support) from them. I will pour out my Spirit on the nation of Israel,' declares the Lord Jehovah.

In the last days I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions! (Ac 2:17; Isa 44:3)

I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of kindness and of supplication. They will look to the one whom they pierced; and they will mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son. There will be a bitter lamentation for him, like one who grieves for his first-born.

If you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?

You see I send the promise of my Father upon you. You are to wait in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.

He spoke this by the Spirit. Those who believed in him were to receive the Spirit. The Spirit was not yet given because Jesus was not yet glorified.

When they were gathered together he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem. They were to wait for the promise of the Father that he spoke about.

He is exalted to the right hand of God. He has received the promised Holy Spirit from the Father. So he poured out what you now see and hear.

We are witnesses of these things. The Holy Spirit, which God gave to those who obey him, also witnessed.

Those circumcised believers who came with Peter were amazed that the gift of Holy Spirit was also poured out on the people of the nations.

When I spoke the Holy Spirit fell upon them just as it was in the beginning.

But you are not in flesh but in Spirit, if indeed God's Spirit dwells in you. If any one does not have the Spirit of Christ he does not belong to him.

For by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body, whether we are Jews or people of the nations, whether we are bond or free; we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

He also sealed us, and gave us the guarantee of the Spirit in our hearts.

You have heard the word of the truth in Christ. It is the good news about your salvation. You also believed and were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit.

We both have access to the Father by one Spirit through him.

That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man.

Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in which (Greek: en hos) (in which) (Greek: hos, he ho) (whereby) (which) you were sealed to the day of release by ransom.

You have purified your hearts by obeying the truth. You have genuine affection for the brothers and sisters. So always love one another intensely (extremely) (deeply) from the heart.

These cause divisions; they are sensual (worldly-minded) persons not having the Spirit.

General references

See I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:

I set before you today life and good, death and evil.

We reason therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

So then those who have faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.