Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose ¹  is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment. ² 

The only thing I want to learn from you is this: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law ¹  or by believing what you heard? ² 

Does God then give ¹  you the Spirit and work miracles among you by your doing the works of the law ²  or by your believing what you heard? ³ 

But the fruit of the Spirit ¹  is love, ²  joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ³ 

so that ¹  through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.

There is one body and one Spirit, just as you too were called to the one hope of your calling,

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

And take the helmet of salvation ¹  and the sword ²  of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

Therefore, if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort provided by love, any fellowship in the Spirit, ¹  any affection or mercy, ² 

For God did not give us a Spirit ¹  of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to serve those ¹  who will inherit salvation?

while God confirmed their witness ¹  with signs and wonders and various miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed ²  according to his will.

For it is impossible in the case of those who have once been enlightened, tasted the heavenly gift, become partakers of the Holy Spirit,

and congregation of the firstborn, who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous, who have been made perfect,

For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.

Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says, ¹  “The spirit that God ²  caused ³  to live within us has an envious yearning”? ⁴ 

Now it was for this very purpose ¹  that the gospel was preached to those who are now dead, ²  so that though ³  they were judged in the flesh ⁴  by human standards ⁵  they may live spiritually ⁶  by God’s standards. ⁷ 

for no prophecy was ever borne of human impulse; rather, men ¹  carried along by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.

the Spirit and the water and the blood, and these three are in agreement.

But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith, by praying in the Holy Spirit, ¹