Bible Questions Answered: Holy Spirit-God The Person

Bible Questions Answered:
Is the Holy Spirit, a person, as we know it?
Shelia/ Wollongong, New South Wales/ Australia

Bible Answer:
God's Word, tell us about the person of God the Holy Spirit.

God, the Holy Spirit, can be lied to.
Acts 5:1-4 KJV
[1] But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,
[2] And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet.
[3] But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
[4] Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart?
thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.

God, the Holy Spirit, gives believers, liberty.
II Corinthians 3:17 NET
17 Now the Lord* is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord*(Holy Spirit) is present, there is freedom.
18 And we all, with unveiled faces reflecting the glory of the Lord*, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another, which is from the Lord*, who is the Spirit.

*Greek: Kurios: Lord, Supremacy, Supreme in authority, God.


God the Holy Spirit: dwells in the hearts of believers:
John 14:17 KJV
Even the Spirit of Truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him: but ye know Him; for He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

Romans 8:9 KJV
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.

I Corinthians 3:16 KJV
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

I John 2:27 KJV
But the anointing which ye have received of Him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in Him.

God, the Holy Spirit, teaches:
Luke 12:12 KJV
For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.

John 14:26 KJV
But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in My name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

I Corinthians 2: 13 KJV
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.


God, the Holy Spirit, guides:
John 16:13 KJV
Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth: for He shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak: and He will shew you things to come.

Acts 10:19,20 KJV
[19] While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said unto him, Behold, three men seek thee.
[20] Arise therefore, and get thee down, and go with them, doubting nothing: for I have sent them.

Acts 13:2 KJV
As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate Me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.

Acts 16:6 KJV
Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia,

Romans 8:14 KJV
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.


God, the Holy Spirit, quickens:
John 6:63 KJV
It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are Spirit, and they are life.

Romans 8:11 KJV
But if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwelleth in you.

II Corinthians 3:6 KJV
Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life.

I Peter 3:18 KJV
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:


God, the Holy Spirit, may be sinned against:
Isaiah 63:10 KJV
But they rebelled, and vexed His Holy Spirit: therefore He was turned to be their enemy, and He fought against them.

Matthew 12:31 KJV
Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.

Mark 3:29 KJV
But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation:

Acts 5:3 KJV
But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

Ephesians 4:30 KJV
And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

I Thessalonians 5:19 KJV
Quench not the Spirit.


God, the Holy Spirit, may withdraw His presence from an individual:
Genesis 6:3 KJV
And the LORD said, My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

I Samuel 16:14 KJV
But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.

Psalm 51:11 KJV
Cast me not away from Thy presence; and take not Thy Holy Spirit from me.


God, the Holy Spirit, Powerful God, who empowers the people of God.
Micah 3:8 KJV
But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.

Zechariah 4:6 KJV
Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.

Luke 4:14 KJV
And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of Him through all the region round about.

Acts 1:8 KJV
But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto Me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

Ephesians 3:16 KJV
That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man;


God, the Holy Spirit, regenerates, gives new spiritual birth;
Ezekiel 36:26 KJV
A new heart also will I give you, and a new Spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

Titus 3:5 KJV
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;


Titles of God, the Holy Spirit:

The Comforter:
John 14:16,17 KJV
[16] And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you for ever;
[17] Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him: but ye know Him; for He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you

The Eternal Spirit:
Hebrews 9:13,14 KJV
[13]For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: (O.T. Sacrifices, before Christ)
[14]How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the Eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Free Spirit:
Psalm 51:12 KJV
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.

Holy Spirit:
Psalm 51:11 KJV (Ephesians 1:13/ 4:30)
Cast me not away from Thy presence; and take not thy Holy Spirit from me.

Power of the Highest:
Luke 1:35 KJV
And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that Holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.

Spirit of Adoption:
Romans 8:15 KJV
For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of Adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

Spirit of Christ:
I Peter 1:11 KJV
Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.

Comforter: (Greek: Parakletos: Intercessor, consoler, advocate, comforter.) (John 14:26/ John 16:7,8/ John 16:13)
John 15:26 KJV
But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of Truth, which proceedeth from the Father, He shall testify of Me:

Spirit of Council:
Isaiah 11:2 KJV
And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding, the Spirit of Counsel and Might, the Spirit of Knowledge and of the Fear of the LORD;

Spirit of Glory:
I Peter 4:14 KJV
If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the Spirit of Glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part He is evil spoken of, but on your part He is glorified.

Spirit of God:
Genesis 1:2 KJV
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Spirit of Grace:
Zechariah 12:10 KJV
And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of Grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon Me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for Him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for Him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

Spirit of Holiness:
Romans 1:4 KJV
And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of Holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:

Spirit of Judgment:
Isaiah 4:4 KJV
When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the Spirit of Judgment, and by the Spirit of Burning.

Spirit of Knowledge:
Isaiah 11:2 KJV
And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon Him, the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding, the Spirit of Counsel and Might, the Spirit of Knowledge and of the Fear of the LORD;

Spirit of Life:
Romans 8:2 KJV
For the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

Spirit of the Lord God:
Isaiah 61:1 KJV
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; He hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

Spirit of Might:
Isaiah 11:2 KJV
And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding, the Spirit of Counsel and Might, the Spirit of Knowledge and of the Fear of the LORD;

Spirit of Prophecy:
Revelation 19:10 KJV
And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy.

Spirit of the Father:
Matthew 10:20 KJV
For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.

Spirit of the Lord:
Isaiah 11:2 KJV
And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon Him, the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding, the Spirit of Counsel and Might, the Spirit of Knowledge and of the Fear of the LORD;

Spirit of the Son:
Galatians 4:6 KJV
And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

Teacher:
Luke 12:12 KJV (Nehemiah 9:20/ John 14:26/ I Corinthians 2:13/ I John 2:27)
For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.

Spirit of Truth:
John 14:17 KJV (John 15:26/ John 16:13/ I John 4:6)
Even the Spirit of Truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him: but ye know Him; for He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

Spirit of Understanding:
Isaiah 11:2 KJV
And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon Him, the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding, the Spirit of Counsel and Might, the Spirit of Knowledge and of the Fear of the LORD;

Spirit of Wisdom:
Isaiah 11:2 KJV
And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon Him, the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding, the Spirit of Counsel and Might, the Spirit of Knowledge and of the Fear of the LORD;

God the Holy Spirit, is the third person of the Holy Trinity.
Three Divine Persons, united in eternal holy, unity.
Matthew 28:18-20 KJV
[18] And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth.
[19] Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
[20] Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.