Acts 15:28

“When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.

I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever:

Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him and doesn’t know him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.

to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

All your children will be taught by Yahweh; and your children’s peace will be great.

Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, “This is Yahweh’s word to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach,

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

Yahweh’s Spirit will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.

When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

He said, “Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won’t even lift one finger to help carry those burdens.

You are witnesses of these things.

Behold, I send out the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high.”

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.

Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.

As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”

Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

But he said, “I am not crazy, most excellent Festus, but boldly declare words of truth and reasonableness.

But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.

I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.

Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

If you then, being 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?”

For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

They prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

“Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor Felix: Greetings.

For as many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

(for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,

Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant.

I give a judgment in this: for this is expedient for you who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, but also to be willing.

Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s.

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

For there are three who testify:

I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;

For Yahweh of Armies says: ‘For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

His disciples didn’t understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”

we accept it in all ways and in all places, most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness.

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by God’s Spirit says, “Jesus is accursed.” No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” but by the Holy Spirit.

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.

I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, didn’t receive the promise,

Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you,

But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.

After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, was one saying, “Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after this.”

Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me.

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

We are his witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”

But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God’s Spirit.

But to you I say, to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as don’t have this teaching, who don’t know what some call ‘the deep things of Satan,’ to you I say, I am not putting any other burden on you.

Yahweh’s anger burned against Moses, and he said, “What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Also, behold, he is coming out to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.

it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus;

God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.

Therefore my judgment is that we don’t trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God,

it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.

to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.

If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.

Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.

To them it was revealed, that they served not to themselves, but to you, in these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.