Scripture Folios
Genesis 1:2 Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters. Chapter Related Numbers 11:29 But Moses replied, “Are you jealous on my account? I wish that all the Lord ’s people were prophets and that the Lord would place His Spirit on them!” Chapter Related Ezekiel 36:26–27 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances. Chapter Related Joel 2:28 And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. Chapter Related Zechariah 4:6 So he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord of Hosts.” Chapter Related John 3:5–6 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. Flesh is born of flesh, but spirit is born of the Spirit.” Chapter Related John 3:8 “The wind blows where it wishes. You hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.” Chapter Related John 3:34 For the One whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit. Chapter Related Luke 11:13 “So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!” Chapter Related John 20:22 When He had said this, He breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.” Chapter Related Acts 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them. Chapter Related Romans 5:5 And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us. Chapter Related 1 Corinthians 15:45 So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam a life-giving spirit. Chapter Related 1 Corinthians 6:17 But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit. Chapter Related Romans 8:14–16 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption to sonship, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. Chapter Related 2 Peter 1:4 Through these He has given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. Chapter Related John 10:27 My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me. Chapter Related Acts 13:2 While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” Chapter Related 1 Corinthians 3:16 Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? Chapter Related Ephesians 3:16 I ask that out of the riches of His glory He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, Chapter Related Ephesians 1:13–14 And in Him, having heard and believed the word of truth—the gospel of your salvation—you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the pledge of our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession, to the praise of His glory. Chapter Related 2 Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. Chapter Related Galatians 5:22–23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Chapter Related John 14:12 Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever believes in Me will also do the works that I am doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. Chapter Related Revelation 22:17 The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let the one who hears say, “Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come, and the one who desires the water of life drink freely. Chapter Related
The Spirit is there in the Bible’s second verse, hovering over the waters, and for most of the story it rests on a few: prophets, judges, kings. Moses wished it were on all the Lord’s people. Ezekiel and Joel heard that one day it would be. In Jesus it comes. The Spirit is a wind you hear but cannot trace, given without limit, given to anyone who asks. He breathes it on his disciples, and at Pentecost they are all filled. What arrives is life itself: the last Adam is a life-giving spirit, and whoever is joined to the Lord is one with him in spirit. The Spirit tells our spirit we are God’s children; it leads, and it speaks. It makes us God’s temple, strengthens the inner being, seals, and sets free, and against its fruit there is no law. The folio ends where the Bible does, with the Spirit and the bride saying, “Come!”