Philippians 1:24

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.

“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.

But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn’t yet glorified.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among people, yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.

Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

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.

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.

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

Abimelech said, “I don’t know who has done this thing. You didn’t tell me, and I didn’t hear of it until today.”

But he refused, and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, my master doesn’t know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand.

When the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.”

When they had gone over, Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you.” Elisha said, “Please let a double portion of your spirit be on me.”

Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.

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.”

They worshiped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,

For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.

If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.

Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father.

You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I.

When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit!

“Now, brothers, I know that you did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers.

Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;

God didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh;

It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don’t know what I will choose.

whom he poured out on us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior;

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.

But I tell you the truth: There are some of those who stand here who will in no way taste of death until they see God’s Kingdom.”

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.