39 Bible Verses about ghosts

Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, "Jesus [is] accursed," and no one is able to say "Jesus [is] Lord" except by the Holy Spirit.

But they were startled and became terrified, [and] thought [they] had seen a ghost.

For this [reason] I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven!

Look at my hands and my feet, that I am I myself! Touch me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as {you see that I have}."

But the disciples, [when they] saw him walking on the sea, were terrified, saying, "It is a ghost!" and they cried out in fear.

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

Now the birth of Jesus Christ occurred in this way. His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, [but] before they came together, she was found {to be pregnant} by the Holy Spirit.

Guard the good deposit through the Holy Spirit who lives in us.

For [there] are three that testify,

And the angel answered [and] said to her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the one to be born will be called holy, the Son of God.

And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice [and] gave up his spirit.

But you, dear friends, [by] building yourselves up in your most holy faith, [by] praying in the Holy Spirit,

And he said to them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit [when you] believed?" And they [said] to him, "But we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit!"

Then you shall be low; you shall speak from [the] earth, and your words will be low, from dust. And your voice will be from [the] earth, like a ghost, and your word will whisper from [the] dust.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

And Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands I entrust my spirit!" And [after he] said this, he expired.

Or 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?

Now Simon, [when he] saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands, offered them money,

And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages as the Spirit gave them [ability] to speak out.

for no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men carried along by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.

with the result that I am a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving the gospel of God as a priest, in order that the offering of the Gentiles may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

And we are witnesses of these things, and [so is] the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him."

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he must never drink wine or beer, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit [while he is] still in his mother's womb.

" 'You shall not turn to the mediums and to the soothsayers; you shall not seek [them] to become unclean with them; I [am] Yahweh your God.

But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked intently into heaven [and] saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.

So, brothers, select from among you seven men {of good reputation}, full of the Spirit and wisdom, whom we will put in charge of this need.

And [when he] had said this, he breathed on [them] and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit.

who went down [and] prayed for them so that they would receive the Holy Spirit.

And [as] I was beginning to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, just as also on us at the beginning.

But Saul (also called Paul), filled with the Holy Spirit, looked intently at him

Then when he had received the sour wine, Jesus said, "It is completed," and bowing [his] head, he gave up [his] spirit.

Therefore, go [and] make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in town [after town], saying that bonds and persecutions await me.

But you will receive power [when] the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the farthest part of the earth."

[While] Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who were listening to the message.

Who [is] he who will contend with me? For {then} I would be silent, and I would pass away.

And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness

[things] which we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in [words] taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual [things] to spiritual [people].

"[You] stiff-necked [people] and uncircumcised in hearts and in [your] ears! You constantly resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers [did], [so] also [do] you!