Holy Spirit Lesson 1: Scripture Readings

Genesis 1:2

² Now the earth was without shape and empty, and darkness was over the surface of the watery deep, but the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the water.

Psalm 78:41

⁴¹ They again challenged God,
and offended the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 4:4

⁴ At that time the Lord will wash the excrement from Zion’s women,
he will rinse the bloodstains from Jerusalem’s midst,
as he comes to judge
and to bring devastation.

Isaiah 11:2

² The Lord’s Spirit will rest on him—
a Spirit that gives extraordinary wisdom,
a Spirit that provides the ability to execute plans,
a Spirit that produces absolute loyalty to the Lord.

Zechariah 12:10

¹⁰ “I will pour out on the kingship of David and the population of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication so that they will look to me, the one they have pierced. They will lament for him as one laments for an only son, and there will be a bitter cry for him like the bitter cry for a firstborn.

Matthew 3:11

¹¹ “I baptize you with water, for repentance, but the one coming after me is more powerful than I am—I am not worthy to carry his sandals! He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Matthew 10:20

²⁰ For it is not you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

Luke 3:22

²² and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, “You are my one dear Son; in you I take great delight.”

John 14:16

¹⁶ Then I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you forever—

John 14:17

¹⁷ the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see him or know him. But you know him, because he resides with you and will be in you.

John 14:26

²⁶ But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and will cause you to remember everything I said to you.

Hebrews 9:14

¹⁴ how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our consciences from dead works to worship the living God.

2 Corinthians 3:17

¹⁷ Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is present, there is freedom. 

Romans 8:2

² For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death. 

Romans 8:9

⁹ You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him. 

1 Peter 4:14

¹⁴ If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory, who is the Spirit of God, rests on you.

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Question 1

Matthew 3:16-17

¹⁶ After Jesus was baptized, just as he was coming up out of the water, the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him. ¹⁷ And a voice from heaven said, “This is my one dear Son; in him I take great delight.”

Matthew 3:16-17

¹⁶ After Jesus was baptized, just as he was coming up out of the water, the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him. ¹⁷ And a voice from heaven said, “This is my one dear Son; in him I take great delight.”

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Question 4

Mark 16:19

¹⁹ After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. 

Acts 1:9-11

⁹ After he had said this, while they were watching, he was lifted up and a cloud hid him from their sight. ¹⁰ As they were still staring into the sky while he was going, suddenly two men in white clothing stood near them ¹¹ and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand here looking up into the sky? This same Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will come back in the same way you saw him go into heaven.”

Acts 7:55-56

⁵⁵ But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked intently toward heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. ⁵⁶ “Look!” he said. “I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!” 

Romans 8:34

³⁴ Who is the one who will condemn? Christ is the one who died (and more than that, he was raised), who is at the right hand of God, and who also is interceding for us. 

Colossians 3:1

3:1 Therefore, if you have been raised with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 

Hebrews 10:12-13

¹² But when this priest had offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, he sat down at the right hand of God, ¹³ where he is now waiting until his enemies are made a footstool for his feet.

Romans 8:9-10

⁹ You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him. ¹⁰ But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is your life because of righteousness. 

1 Corinthians 3:16

¹⁶ Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? 

1 Corinthians 6:19

¹⁹ 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?