66 Bible Verses about Spirituality

But the intellectual man receives not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him; and he is not able to know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, having been sold under sin.

Jesus responded, Truly, truly, I say unto thee, Unless any one may be born of water and Spirit, he is not able to enter into the kingdom of the heavens. That which has been born of the flesh is flesh; and that which has been born of the Spirit is spirit. Be not astonished because I said to thee; It behooveth you to be born from above.read more.
The Spirit breathes on whom He willeth, and thou hearest His voice, but dost not know whence He cometh and whither He goeth; so is every one who has been born of the Spirit.

But if the Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the one having raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also create life in your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who dwells in you.

not from works which are in righteousness, which we did, but according to his own mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and the renewal of the Holy Ghost,

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the one having according to his great mercy begotten us again into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

but without faith it is impossible to please him: for it behooves the one coming unto God to believe that he is, and he is a rewarder unto them who seek him out.

Then Jesus said unto them, Truly, truly, I say unto you, Unless you may eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. The one eating my flesh and drinking my blood has eternal life; and I will raise him up in the last day. For my flesh is the true food, and my blood is the true drink.read more.
The one eating my flesh and drinking my blood abides in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live through the Father; truly the one eating me, shall also live through me. He is the bread having come down from heaven: not as the fathers ate, and died: the one eating this bread shall live forever.

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

and these have been written in order that you may believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God; and in order that believing you may have life through His name.

And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus, and thou and thy household shall be saved.

That if you may confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and may believe with your heart that God raised him from the dead, you shall be saved: for with the heart it is believed unto righteousness; and with the mouth it is confessed unto salvation.

to know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; if perchance I may attain unto the resurrection which is out from the dead. Not that I already received it, or have already been made perfect: but I persevere, if I may receive that for which I have indeed been received by Christ Jesus.read more.
Brethren, I do not consider that I have yet received it; but there is one thing, indeed forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forward to those which are before, I press toward the goal unto the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

For those being in harmony with depravity, do mind the things of depravity, and those in harmony with the Spirit, the things of the Spirit: for the mind of depravity is death: and the mind of the Spirit is life and peace. Therefore the mind of depravity is enmity toward God: for it is not subordinated to the law of God, for it is not able so to be.read more.
But those being in depravity are not able to please God. But ye are not in depravity, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any one has not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.

Then therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to depravity, to live according to depravity. For if you live according to depravity, you are about to die: but if through the Spirit you kill the practices of the body, you shall live.

And I say, Walk about in the Spirit, and do not perfect the lust of carnality. For carnality wars against the Spirit, and the Spirit against carnality; for these are antagonistical to one another; so that you may not do the things which you may wish.

Be not drunk with wine, in which there is riot, but be ye filled with the Spirit;

But we all, with unveiled face beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

Because whom he did foreknow, he did also predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brethren:

Beloved, now are we the children of God, and it is not yet manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he may be made manifest, we shall be like him; because we shall see him as he is. Indeed every one having this hope on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

For so many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but you received the Spirit of adoption, in which we cry; Father, Father. The Spirit Himself witnesses along with our spirit, that we are the children of God.

But the fruit of the Spirit is divine love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, meekness, holiness; against such things there is no law.

So every good tree produces good fruits; and a corrupt tree produces evil fruits.

I am the vine, and ye are the branches. The one abiding in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit: because you are not able to do anything without me. If any one may not abide in me, he is cast out as a branch, and withered; and they gather it, and cast it into the fire, and it is burnt. If you may abide in me, and my words may abide in you, ask whatsoever you may wish, and it shall be done unto you.read more.
In this my Father is glorified, that you may bear much fruit; and ye shall be my disciples.

For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.

For at one time ye were darkness, but now ye are light in the Lord: walk about as children of the light, (for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

Beloved, let us love one another with divine love: because divine love is of God; and the one loving with divine love has been born of God, and knows God.

I give unto a new commandment, That you must love one another with divine love; as I have loved you with divine love, that you must also love one another with divine love: in this shall all know that you are my disciples, if you may have divine love one with another.

If I may speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not divine love, I have become a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not divine love, I am nothing. And if I give all my goods to feed the poor, and if I may give my body that I shall be burnt, and have not divine love, I am profited as to nothing.read more.
Divine love suffers long; divine love is kind; divine love envies not; does not make a display of itself, is not puffed up,

Therefore, as elect of God, holy and beloved, put on affections of mercy, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering;

And I, brethren, was not able to speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, not with meat; for you were not yet able. But ye are not now yet able: for ye are yet carnal. For where there are envy and strife among you, are you not carnal, and walking about according to man?

Brethren, be not children in intellect: but be infants in evil, but be perfect in intellect.

For every one partaking of milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness; for he is a babe; but solid food belongs to the perfect, those having their senses disciplined by use unto the discernment both of the good and the evil.

Brethren, if indeed a man may be overtaken in some transgression, you who are spiritual, perfect such an one in the spirit of meekness; watching yourself, lest you may also be tempted.

But receive to yourselves him who is weak in faith, not into disputations of doubtful matters. One indeed believes he is to eat all things: another who is weak, vegetables. Let not the one eating snub the one not eating. Let not the one not eating judge the one eating; for God received him.

See lest this liberty of yours may become a stumblingblock to the weak. For if any one may see you having knowledge sitting at the table in the idol temple, will not the conscience of him, being weak, be encouraged to eat things sacrificed to the idols? For the weak one is destroyed by your knowledge, the brother for whom Christ died.read more.
And you, sinning so against the brethren, and wounding their weak conscience, are sinning against Christ. If indeed meat causes my brother to stumble, I never eat any more meat, in order that I may not lay a stumblingblock in the way of my brother.

But, as has been written, the things which eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and has not entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for those who love Him. But God has revealed them to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who of men knows the things of man, except the spirit of the man which is in him? so indeed no one knows the things of God, except the Spirit of God.read more.
But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God; in order that we may know the things which have been graciously given unto us from God. Which things indeed we speak, not in the teachable words of human wisdom, but in the teachable words of the Spirit, expounding spiritual things to spiritual people.

the Spirit of truth: which the world is not able to receive, because it does not see Him, nor know Him: you know Him: because He abideth with you, and shall be in you.

But when He, the Spirit of truth, may come, He will guide you in all truth: for He will not speak from Himself; but so many things as He hears, He will speak: and will proclaim to you the things which are coming. He will glorify me: because He will receive from mine, and proclaim them unto you. And all things whatsoever the Father has are mine: therefore I said, that He takes from mine, and will proclaim them to you.

But the spiritual man discerns all things, and is himself discerned by no one. For who knows the mind of the Lord, who shall give him counsel? But we have the mind of Christ.

teaching us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we must live prudently and righteously and holily in this present age;

I exhort you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, your reasonable service: and he not fashioned after this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? and you are not your own; for you have been bought with a price: indeed glorify God in your body.

But those belonging to Christ Jesus have crucified carnality with the passions and lusts.

If then ye are risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting on the right hand of God; think about those things above, and not things upon the earth.

If you may keep my commandments, abide in my love; as I have kept the commandments of my Father, and I abide in His love.

he is the expiator for our sins: and not ours only, but indeed for the whole world. And in this we know that we have known him, if we are keeping his commandments. The one saying, I have known him, and keeping not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;read more.
but whosoever shall keep his word, truly the divine love of God has been made perfect in him. In this we know that we are in him. The one saying that he abides in him ought himself so to walk about, as he also did walk about.

In this we know that we love the children of God with divine love, when we love God with divine love and keep his commandments. For this is the divine love of God, that we may keep his commandments: and his commandments are not heavy:

If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always resist the Holy Ghost; as your fathers did, so do ye.

And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed unto the day of redemption.

Quench not the Spirit;

now they know that all things so many as thou hast given to me are with thee:

and that from an infant thou hast known the holy scriptures which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All scripture is God-breathed and profitable unto teaching, unto conviction, unto correction, unto instruction which is in righteousness: in order that the man of God may be perfect, having been thoroughly perfected unto every good work.

And it came to pass in those days, that He went out into the mountain to pray; and was there through the night in the prayer of God.

And in the morning, exceedingly early, while it was yet night, having arisen up He came out, and went away into a desert place, and was praying there.

And seeing the boldness of Peter and John, and apprehending that they are unlearned and ignorant men, they continued to be astonished, and recognized them, that they were with Jesus;

and let us recognize one another in the provocation of divine love and good works:

Let the word of God dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another, in all wisdom, in psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, with grace making melody in your hearts to God;

as you know, exhorting each one of you, as a father of his own children, and comforting you, and testifying, that you walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

Count it all joy, my brethren, when you may fall into manifold temptations. Knowing that the trial of your faith works out endurance. But let endurance have its perfect work, in order that you may be perfect and whole in every part, lacking in nothing.

And not only so, but let us also rejoice in tribulation; knowing that tribulation works out endurance; and endurance, approval; and approval, hope:

In whom you rejoice, if however it is needful, being grieved a little while among manifold temptations: in order that the trial of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes, however being tried by the fire, may be found unto praise and glory and honor in the revelation of Jesus Christ:

and having deposed him, he raised up to them David for a king; to whom witnessing he also said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man according to my own heart, who will do all my wishes.

And the word was pleasing before all the multitude, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas,